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Re-read your message carefully.   "gettokens" is not "getfields".

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Subject: [9fans] Either bug in the man page or in getfields
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:04:03 GMT

getfields does not evaluate quotes, but tokenize does. Yet the man
page says: "Tokenize is gettokens with delims set to "\t\r\n ". Is
there a bug in getfields or is it a documentation bug?

Thank you,
Saroj Mahapatra

P.S. My two earlier messages mysteriously disapperared.
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