From a4bbf1d2f654abf6f65d2d05ed8813975e0defb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: shivers Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:02:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Documented new regexp-substitute procs. --- doc/scsh-release-0.5 | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/scsh-release-0.5 b/doc/scsh-release-0.5 index 114fcbd..0415145 100644 --- a/doc/scsh-release-0.5 +++ b/doc/scsh-release-0.5 @@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ compilation is now provided, and the AWK macro has been rewritten to pre-compile regexps used in rules outside the loop. It is still, however, slower than it should be. +We have introduced two new procedures for our Perl fans, for performing +regexp-directed string substitutions: + regexp-substitute + regexp-substitute/global +The design is not what you might expect, but they are quite powerful +and efficient. + Execing programs should be faster in this release, since we now use the CLOEXEC status bit to get automatic closing of unrevealed port file descriptors.