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| -rw-r--r-- | upstream/archlinux/man5/table.5 | 20 |
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diff --git a/upstream/archlinux/man5/table.5 b/upstream/archlinux/man5/table.5 index 6da7bd71..65dca359 100644 --- a/upstream/archlinux/man5/table.5 +++ b/upstream/archlinux/man5/table.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: table.5,v 1.12 2021/02/13 08:05:57 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: table.5,v 1.13 2023/12/27 11:29:56 op Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2013 Eric Faurot <eric@openbsd.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2013 Gilles Chehade <gilles@poolp.org> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: February 13 2021 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: December 27 2023 $ .Dt TABLE 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -42,9 +42,6 @@ table mymapping { key1 = value1, key2 = value2, key3 = value3 } When using a .Ql file table, a list will be written with each value on a line by itself. -Comments can be put anywhere in the file using a hash mark -.Pq Sq # , -and extend to the end of the current line. .Bd -literal -offset indent value1 value2 @@ -52,13 +49,22 @@ value3 .Ed .Pp A mapping will be written with each key and value on a line, -whitespaces separating both columns: +whitespace and an optional colon separating both columns: .Bd -literal -offset indent -key1 value1 +key1: value1 key2 value2 key3 value3 .Ed .Pp +Blank lines, leading and trailing spaces and tabs are ignored. +Lines whose first non-space character is a hash mark +.Pq Sq # +are comments and are ignored. +To force the parsing of a file table as a list rather than a mapping, use +this special comment: +.Pp +.Dl # @list +.Pp A file table can be converted to a Berkeley database using the .Xr makemap 8 utility with no syntax change. |