diff --git a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml index 71448c3a7..ca5ad7259 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml @@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ jobs: steps: - name: Checkout repository - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 + uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 # Initializes the CodeQL tools for scanning. - name: Initialize CodeQL - uses: github/codeql-action/init@cdcdbb579706841c47f7063dda365e292e5cad7a + uses: github/codeql-action/init@cdefb33c0f6224e58673d9004f47f7cb3e328b89 with: languages: ${{ matrix.language }} # If you wish to specify custom queries, you can do so here or in a config file. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ jobs: # Autobuild attempts to build any compiled languages (C/C++, C#, or Java). # If this step fails, then you should remove it and run the build manually (see below) - name: Autobuild - uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@cdcdbb579706841c47f7063dda365e292e5cad7a + uses: github/codeql-action/autobuild@cdefb33c0f6224e58673d9004f47f7cb3e328b89 # ℹ️ Command-line programs to run using the OS shell. # 📚 https://git.io/JvXDl @@ -65,4 +65,4 @@ jobs: # make release - name: Perform CodeQL Analysis - uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@cdcdbb579706841c47f7063dda365e292e5cad7a + uses: github/codeql-action/analyze@cdefb33c0f6224e58673d9004f47f7cb3e328b89 diff --git a/.github/workflows/codespell.yml b/.github/workflows/codespell.yml index 967a6cbcc..839eeb43f 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/codespell.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/codespell.yml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs: steps: # Check out the code base - name: Check out code - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 + uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 with: # Full git history is needed to get a proper list of changed files within `super-linter` fetch-depth: 0 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs: # Run linter against code base # https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell - name: Codespell - uses: codespell-project/actions-codespell@94259cd8be02ad2903ba34a22d9c13de21a74461 + uses: codespell-project/actions-codespell@8f01853be192eb0f849a5c7d721450e7a467c579 with: check_filenames: true ignore_words_file: .codespellignore diff --git a/.github/workflows/go.yml b/.github/workflows/go.yml index 9ff2f41a6..98d170d1d 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/go.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/go.yml @@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ jobs: os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-latest] steps: - - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 + - uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 - name: Set up Go - uses: actions/setup-go@0c52d547c9bc32b1aa3301fd7a9cb496313a4491 + uses: actions/setup-go@7a3fe6cf4cb3a834922a1244abfce67bcef6a0c5 with: - go-version: 1.19 + go-version: 1.24 - name: Build run: make build @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ jobs: if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest' run: mkdir -p bin/${{matrix.os}} && cp mlr.exe bin/${{matrix.os}} - - uses: actions/upload-artifact@694cdabd8bdb0f10b2cea11669e1bf5453eed0a6 + - uses: actions/upload-artifact@b7c566a772e6b6bfb58ed0dc250532a479d7789f with: name: mlr-${{matrix.os}} path: bin/${{matrix.os}}/* diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-snap.yaml b/.github/workflows/release-snap.yaml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d0dfada19 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/release-snap.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +name: Release for Snap +on: + push: + tags: + - v* + workflow_dispatch: + +jobs: + snap: + strategy: + matrix: + os: [ubuntu-latest, ubuntu-24.04-arm] + runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }} + steps: + - name: Checkout code + uses: actions/checkout@v6 + + - name: Build snap + uses: snapcore/action-build@v1 + id: build + + - name: Publish to Snap Store + uses: snapcore/action-publish@v1 + env: + SNAPCRAFT_STORE_CREDENTIALS: ${{ secrets.SNAPCRAFT_TOKEN }} + with: + snap: ${{ steps.build.outputs.snap }} + # release: stable # or edge, beta, candidate + release: stable diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml index aa4c73aba..fa2b59ec5 100644 --- a/.github/workflows/release.yml +++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -name: Release +name: Release for GitHub on: push: tags: @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ on: workflow_dispatch: env: - GO_VERSION: 1.19.13 + GO_VERSION: 1.24.5 jobs: release: @@ -17,19 +17,19 @@ jobs: runs-on: ${{ matrix.platform }} steps: - name: Set up Go - uses: actions/setup-go@0c52d547c9bc32b1aa3301fd7a9cb496313a4491 + uses: actions/setup-go@7a3fe6cf4cb3a834922a1244abfce67bcef6a0c5 with: go-version: ${{ env.GO_VERSION }} id: go - name: Check out code into the Go module directory - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 + uses: actions/checkout@8e8c483db84b4bee98b60c0593521ed34d9990e8 with: fetch-depth: 0 # https://github.com/marketplace/actions/cache - name: Cache Go modules - uses: actions/cache@13aacd865c20de90d75de3b17ebe84f7a17d57d2 + uses: actions/cache@8b402f58fbc84540c8b491a91e594a4576fec3d7 with: path: | ~/.cache/go-build @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ jobs: # https://goreleaser.com/ci/actions/ - name: Run GoReleaser - uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@7ec5c2b0c6cdda6e8bbb49444bc797dd33d74dd8 + uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@e435ccd777264be153ace6237001ef4d979d3a7a #if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') with: version: latest diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-snap-can-build.yml b/.github/workflows/test-snap-can-build.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c6c197de9 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/test-snap-can-build.yml @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +name: 🧪 Snap Builds + +on: + push: + branches: '*' + pull_request: + branches: '*' + +jobs: + build: + runs-on: ubuntu-latest + strategy: + matrix: + node-version: [20.x] + + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v6 + + - uses: snapcore/action-build@v1 + id: build + + - uses: diddlesnaps/snapcraft-review-action@v1 + with: + snap: ${{ steps.build.outputs.snap }} + isClassic: 'false' + # Plugs and Slots declarations to override default denial (requires store assertion to publish) + # plugs: ./plug-declaration.json + # slots: ./slot-declaration.json diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml index 8ad896314..57e91bb94 100644 --- a/.readthedocs.yaml +++ b/.readthedocs.yaml @@ -17,3 +17,5 @@ python: mkdocs: configuration: docs/mkdocs.yml + +formats: all diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index fe27b8dd3..ec2b817cb 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ INSTALLDIR=$(PREFIX)/bin # This must remain the first target in this file, which is what 'make' with no # arguments will run. build: - go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr + go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr @echo "Build complete. The Miller executable is ./mlr (or .\mlr.exe on Windows)." @echo "You can use 'make check' to run tests". quiet: - @go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr + @go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr # For interactive use, 'mlr regtest' offers more options and transparency. check: unit-test regression-test @@ -33,25 +33,25 @@ install: build # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # Unit tests (small number) unit-test ut: build - go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/... + go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/... ut-lib:build - go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib... + go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib... ut-scan:build - go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/scan/... + go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/scan/... ut-mlv:build - go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval/... + go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval/... ut-bifs:build - go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs/... + go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs/... ut-input:build - go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input/... + go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input/... bench:build - go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/... + go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/... bench-mlv:build - go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval/... + go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval/... bench-input:build - go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input/... + go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input/... # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # Regression tests (large number) @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ it: build check so: install mlr: - go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr + go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # Please see comments in ./create-release-tarball as well as diff --git a/README-dev.md b/README-dev.md index 0e363db5c..6dd708f95 100644 --- a/README-dev.md +++ b/README-dev.md @@ -95,13 +95,14 @@ So, in broad overview, the key packages are: * Miller dependencies are all in the Go standard library, except two: * GOCC lexer/parser code-generator from [github.com/goccmack/gocc](https://github.com/goccmack/gocc): + * Forked at [github.com/johnkerl/gocc](github.com/johnkerl/gocc). * This package defines the grammar for Miller's domain-specific language (DSL) for the Miller `put` and `filter` verbs. And, GOCC is a joy to use. :) * It is used on the terms of its open-source license. * [golang.org/x/term](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/term): * Just a one-line Miller callsite for is-a-terminal checking for the [Miller REPL](./pkg/terminals/repl/README.md). * It is used on the terms of its open-source license. * See also [./go.mod](go.mod). Setup: - * `go get github.com/goccmack/gocc` + * `go get github.com/johnkerl/gocc` * `go get golang.org/x/term` ### Miller per se diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index be095ed66..73d788982 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ key-value-pair data in a variety of data formats. * [Miller in 10 minutes](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/10min) * [A Guide To Command-Line Data Manipulation](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/12/guide-command-line-data-manipulation-cli-miller) * [A quick tutorial on Miller](https://www.ict4g.net/adolfo/notes/data-analysis/miller-quick-tutorial.html) +* [Miller Exercises](https://github.com/GuilloteauQ/miller-exercises) * [Tools to manipulate CSV files from the Command Line](https://www.ict4g.net/adolfo/notes/data-analysis/tools-to-manipulate-csv.html) * [www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/CSV_Files.html](https://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/CSV_Files.html) * [MLR for CSV manipulation](https://guillim.github.io/terminal/2018/06/19/MLR-for-CSV-manipulation.html) @@ -45,22 +46,18 @@ key-value-pair data in a variety of data formats. * [Active issues](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc) # Installing - There's a good chance you can get Miller pre-built for your system: - [![Ubuntu](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-ubuntu-db4923.svg)](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/miller) [![Ubuntu 16.04 LTS](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-ubuntu1604lts-db4923.svg)](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+package/miller) [![Fedora](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-fedora-173b70.svg)](https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/miller/miller/) [![Debian](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-debian-c70036.svg)](https://packages.debian.org/stable/miller) [![Gentoo](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-gentoo-4e4371.svg)](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/miller) - [![Pro-Linux](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-prolinux-3a679d.svg)](http://www.pro-linux.de/cgi-bin/DBApp/check.cgi?ShowApp..20427.100) [![Arch Linux](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-archlinux-1792d0.svg)](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/miller-git) - [![NetBSD](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-netbsd-f26711.svg)](http://pkgsrc.se/textproc/miller) [![FreeBSD](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-freebsd-8c0707.svg)](https://www.freshports.org/textproc/miller/) - [![Anaconda](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-anaconda-63ad41.svg)](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/miller/) +[![Snap](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-snap-d85f33.svg)](https://snapcraft.io/miller) [![Homebrew/MacOSX](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-homebrew-ba832b.svg)](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/miller) [![MacPorts/MacOSX](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-macports-1376ec.svg)](https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=miller) [![Chocolatey](https://img.shields.io/badge/distros-chocolatey-red.svg)](https://chocolatey.org/packages/miller) @@ -68,9 +65,9 @@ There's a good chance you can get Miller pre-built for your system: |OS|Installation command| |---|---| -|Linux|`yum install miller`
`apt-get install miller`| +|Linux|`yum install miller`
`apt-get install miller`
`snap install miller`| |Mac|`brew install miller`
`port install miller`| -|Windows|`choco install miller`
`winget install Miller.Miller`| +|Windows|`choco install miller`
`winget install Miller.Miller`
`scoop install main/miller`| See also [README-versions.md](./README-versions.md) for a full list of package versions. Note that long-term-support (LtS) releases will likely be on older versions. @@ -94,6 +91,7 @@ See also [building from source](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build.ht [![Multi-platform build status](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions/workflows/go.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions/workflows/go.yml) [![CodeQL status](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions/workflows/codeql-analysis.yml) [![Codespell status](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions/workflows/codespell.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions/workflows/codespell.yml) +[![🧪 Snap Builds](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions/workflows/test-snap-can-build.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions/workflows/test-snap-can-build.yml) @@ -110,9 +108,9 @@ See also [building from source](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build.ht * To install: `make install`. This installs the executable `/usr/local/bin/mlr` and manual page `/usr/local/share/man/man1/mlr.1` (so you can do `man mlr`). * You can do `./configure --prefix=/some/install/path` before `make install` if you want to install somewhere other than `/usr/local`. * Without `make`: - * To build: `go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr`. - * To run tests: `go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/...` and `mlr regtest`. - * To install: `go install github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr` will install to _GOPATH_`/bin/mlr`. + * To build: `go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr`. + * To run tests: `go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/...` and `mlr regtest`. + * To install: `go install github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr@latest` will install to _GOPATH_`/bin/mlr`. * See also the doc page on [building from source](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build). * For more developer information please see [README-dev.md](./README-dev.md). diff --git a/cmd/experiments/colors/main.go b/cmd/experiments/colors/main.go index 5f5093eee..2e41124d9 100644 --- a/cmd/experiments/colors/main.go +++ b/cmd/experiments/colors/main.go @@ -3,15 +3,18 @@ package main import ( "fmt" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer" ) -const boldString = "\u001b[1m" -const underlineString = "\u001b[4m" -const reversedString = "\u001b[7m" -const redString = "\u001b[1;31m" -const blueString = "\u001b[1;34m" -const defaultString = "\u001b[0m" +const ( + boldString = "\u001b[1m" + reversedString = "\u001b[7m" + redString = "\u001b[1;31m" + blueString = "\u001b[1;34m" + defaultString = "\u001b[0m" + + // underlineString = "\u001b[4m" +) func main() { fmt.Printf("Hello, world!\n") diff --git a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/build b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/build index 373184a92..b43d4bc26 100755 --- a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/build +++ b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/build @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ mkdir -p $dir # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # Run the parser-generator -# Build the bin/gocc executable: -go get github.com/goccmack/gocc -#go get github.com/johnkerl/gocc +# Build the bin/gocc executable (use my fork for performance): +# get github.com/goccmack/gocc +go get github.com/johnkerl/gocc bingocc="$GOPATH/bin/gocc" if [ ! -x "$bingocc" ]; then diff --git a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/go.mod b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/go.mod index e4f49daf8..4e81172d6 100644 --- a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/go.mod +++ b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/go.mod @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ module one -go 1.16 +go 1.24 -require github.com/goccmack/gocc v0.0.0-20210322175033-34358ebe5808 // indirect +toolchain go1.24.5 diff --git a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/go.sum b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/go.sum index dfc52feaf..e69de29bb 100644 --- a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/go.sum +++ b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/one/go.sum @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -github.com/goccmack/gocc v0.0.0-20210322175033-34358ebe5808 h1:MBgZdx/wBJWTR2Q79mQfP6c8uXdQiu5JowfEz3KhFac= -github.com/goccmack/gocc v0.0.0-20210322175033-34358ebe5808/go.mod h1:dWhnuKE5wcnGTExA2DH6Iicu21YnWwOPMrc/GyhtbCk= -github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.2.1/go.mod h1:3hX8gzYuyVAZsxl0MRgGTJEmQBFcNTphYh9decYSb74= -golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20190308221718-c2843e01d9a2/go.mod h1:djNgcEr1/C05ACkg1iLfiJU5Ep61QUkGW8qpdssI0+w= -golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20191011191535-87dc89f01550/go.mod h1:yigFU9vqHzYiE8UmvKecakEJjdnWj3jj499lnFckfCI= -golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20200622213623-75b288015ac9/go.mod h1:LzIPMQfyMNhhGPhUkYOs5KpL4U8rLKemX1yGLhDgUto= -golang.org/x/mod v0.3.0 h1:RM4zey1++hCTbCVQfnWeKs9/IEsaBLA8vTkd0WVtmH4= -golang.org/x/mod v0.3.0/go.mod h1:s0Qsj1ACt9ePp/hMypM3fl4fZqREWJwdYDEqhRiZZUA= -golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20190404232315-eb5bcb51f2a3/go.mod h1:t9HGtf8HONx5eT2rtn7q6eTqICYqUVnKs3thJo3Qplg= -golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20190620200207-3b0461eec859/go.mod h1:z5CRVTTTmAJ677TzLLGU+0bjPO0LkuOLi4/5GtJWs/s= -golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20201021035429-f5854403a974/go.mod h1:sp8m0HH+o8qH0wwXwYZr8TS3Oi6o0r6Gce1SSxlDquU= -golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20190423024810-112230192c58/go.mod h1:RxMgew5VJxzue5/jJTE5uejpjVlOe/izrB70Jof72aM= -golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20201020160332-67f06af15bc9/go.mod h1:RxMgew5VJxzue5/jJTE5uejpjVlOe/izrB70Jof72aM= -golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190215142949-d0b11bdaac8a/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY= -golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190412213103-97732733099d/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs= -golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20200930185726-fdedc70b468f/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs= -golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210119212857-b64e53b001e4/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs= -golang.org/x/text v0.3.0/go.mod h1:NqM8EUOU14njkJ3fqMW+pc6Ldnwhi/IjpwHt7yyuwOQ= -golang.org/x/text v0.3.3/go.mod h1:5Zoc/QRtKVWzQhOtBMvqHzDpF6irO9z98xDceosuGiQ= -golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20180917221912-90fa682c2a6e/go.mod h1:n7NCudcB/nEzxVGmLbDWY5pfWTLqBcC2KZ6jyYvM4mQ= -golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20191119224855-298f0cb1881e/go.mod h1:b+2E5dAYhXwXZwtnZ6UAqBI28+e2cm9otk0dWdXHAEo= -golang.org/x/tools v0.1.0/go.mod h1:xkSsbof2nBLbhDlRMhhhyNLN/zl3eTqcnHD5viDpcZ0= -golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20190717185122-a985d3407aa7/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0= -golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20191011141410-1b5146add898/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0= -golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20200804184101-5ec99f83aff1 h1:go1bK/D/BFZV2I8cIQd1NKEZ+0owSTG1fDTci4IqFcE= -golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20200804184101-5ec99f83aff1/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0= diff --git a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/build b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/build index 2cb7893d3..1ea06c916 100755 --- a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/build +++ b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/build @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ mkdir -p $dir # ---------------------------------------------------------------- # Run the parser-generator -# Build the bin/gocc executable: -go get github.com/goccmack/gocc -#go get github.com/johnkerl/gocc +# Build the bin/gocc executable (use my fork for performance): +# go get github.com/goccmack/gocc +go get github.com/johnkerl/gocc bingocc="$GOPATH/bin/gocc" if [ ! -x "$bingocc" ]; then exit 1 diff --git a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/go.mod b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/go.mod index be38de9a3..81c05ea5e 100644 --- a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/go.mod +++ b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/go.mod @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ module two -go 1.16 +go 1.24 -require github.com/goccmack/gocc v0.0.0-20210322175033-34358ebe5808 // indirect +toolchain go1.24.5 diff --git a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/go.sum b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/go.sum index dfc52feaf..e69de29bb 100644 --- a/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/go.sum +++ b/cmd/experiments/dsl_parser/two/go.sum @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -github.com/goccmack/gocc v0.0.0-20210322175033-34358ebe5808 h1:MBgZdx/wBJWTR2Q79mQfP6c8uXdQiu5JowfEz3KhFac= -github.com/goccmack/gocc v0.0.0-20210322175033-34358ebe5808/go.mod h1:dWhnuKE5wcnGTExA2DH6Iicu21YnWwOPMrc/GyhtbCk= -github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.2.1/go.mod h1:3hX8gzYuyVAZsxl0MRgGTJEmQBFcNTphYh9decYSb74= -golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20190308221718-c2843e01d9a2/go.mod h1:djNgcEr1/C05ACkg1iLfiJU5Ep61QUkGW8qpdssI0+w= -golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20191011191535-87dc89f01550/go.mod h1:yigFU9vqHzYiE8UmvKecakEJjdnWj3jj499lnFckfCI= -golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20200622213623-75b288015ac9/go.mod h1:LzIPMQfyMNhhGPhUkYOs5KpL4U8rLKemX1yGLhDgUto= -golang.org/x/mod v0.3.0 h1:RM4zey1++hCTbCVQfnWeKs9/IEsaBLA8vTkd0WVtmH4= -golang.org/x/mod v0.3.0/go.mod h1:s0Qsj1ACt9ePp/hMypM3fl4fZqREWJwdYDEqhRiZZUA= -golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20190404232315-eb5bcb51f2a3/go.mod h1:t9HGtf8HONx5eT2rtn7q6eTqICYqUVnKs3thJo3Qplg= -golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20190620200207-3b0461eec859/go.mod h1:z5CRVTTTmAJ677TzLLGU+0bjPO0LkuOLi4/5GtJWs/s= -golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20201021035429-f5854403a974/go.mod h1:sp8m0HH+o8qH0wwXwYZr8TS3Oi6o0r6Gce1SSxlDquU= -golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20190423024810-112230192c58/go.mod h1:RxMgew5VJxzue5/jJTE5uejpjVlOe/izrB70Jof72aM= -golang.org/x/sync v0.0.0-20201020160332-67f06af15bc9/go.mod h1:RxMgew5VJxzue5/jJTE5uejpjVlOe/izrB70Jof72aM= -golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190215142949-d0b11bdaac8a/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY= -golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190412213103-97732733099d/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs= -golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20200930185726-fdedc70b468f/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs= -golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20210119212857-b64e53b001e4/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs= -golang.org/x/text v0.3.0/go.mod h1:NqM8EUOU14njkJ3fqMW+pc6Ldnwhi/IjpwHt7yyuwOQ= -golang.org/x/text v0.3.3/go.mod h1:5Zoc/QRtKVWzQhOtBMvqHzDpF6irO9z98xDceosuGiQ= -golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20180917221912-90fa682c2a6e/go.mod h1:n7NCudcB/nEzxVGmLbDWY5pfWTLqBcC2KZ6jyYvM4mQ= -golang.org/x/tools v0.0.0-20191119224855-298f0cb1881e/go.mod h1:b+2E5dAYhXwXZwtnZ6UAqBI28+e2cm9otk0dWdXHAEo= -golang.org/x/tools v0.1.0/go.mod h1:xkSsbof2nBLbhDlRMhhhyNLN/zl3eTqcnHD5viDpcZ0= -golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20190717185122-a985d3407aa7/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0= -golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20191011141410-1b5146add898/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0= -golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20200804184101-5ec99f83aff1 h1:go1bK/D/BFZV2I8cIQd1NKEZ+0owSTG1fDTci4IqFcE= -golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20200804184101-5ec99f83aff1/go.mod h1:I/5z698sn9Ka8TeJc9MKroUUfqBBauWjQqLJ2OPfmY0= diff --git a/cmd/mlr/main.go b/cmd/mlr/main.go index 3e37bdca1..dc2b1f8b4 100644 --- a/cmd/mlr/main.go +++ b/cmd/mlr/main.go @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import ( "strings" "time" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/entrypoint" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/entrypoint" "github.com/pkg/profile" // for trace.out ) diff --git a/cmd/scan/main.go b/cmd/scan/main.go index f93e0226e..d42b08115 100644 --- a/cmd/scan/main.go +++ b/cmd/scan/main.go @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import ( "fmt" "os" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/scan" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/scan" ) func main() { diff --git a/cmd/sizes/main.go b/cmd/sizes/main.go index 5ae6209cc..8e06398fe 100644 --- a/cmd/sizes/main.go +++ b/cmd/sizes/main.go @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ // ================================================================ /* -go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/sizes +go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/sizes */ package main @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ package main import ( "fmt" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval" ) func main() { diff --git a/delve.txt b/delve.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a34052ee1 --- /dev/null +++ b/delve.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +dlv exec ./mlr -- --csv --from x.csv sub -a def ghi +break main.main + # or wherever +restart +continue diff --git a/docs/mkdocs.yml b/docs/mkdocs.yml index 287d929c7..6b36e5a94 100644 --- a/docs/mkdocs.yml +++ b/docs/mkdocs.yml @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ theme: code: Lato Mono features: - navigation.top + - content.action.edit + - content.action.view custom_dir: overrides repo_url: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller repo_name: miller @@ -116,5 +118,9 @@ nav: - "What's new in Miller 6": "new-in-miller-6.md" markdown_extensions: -- toc: + - toc: permalink: true + - admonition + - pymdownx.details + - pymdownx.superfences + diff --git a/docs/src/10min.md b/docs/src/10min.md index d9e4d2416..eaec2be05 100644 --- a/docs/src/10min.md +++ b/docs/src/10min.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Quick links: Let's take a quick look at some of the most useful Miller verbs -- file-format-aware, name-index-empowered equivalents of standard system commands. -For most of this section we'll use our [example.csv](./example.csv). +For most of this section, we'll use our [example.csv](./example.csv). `mlr cat` is like system `cat` (or `type` on Windows) -- it passes the data through unmodified: diff --git a/docs/src/10min.md.in b/docs/src/10min.md.in index 0fdc94bf1..32f06d7d7 100644 --- a/docs/src/10min.md.in +++ b/docs/src/10min.md.in @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Let's take a quick look at some of the most useful Miller verbs -- file-format-aware, name-index-empowered equivalents of standard system commands. -For most of this section we'll use our [example.csv](./example.csv). +For most of this section, we'll use our [example.csv](./example.csv). `mlr cat` is like system `cat` (or `type` on Windows) -- it passes the data through unmodified: diff --git a/docs/src/build.md b/docs/src/build.md index 0b6787898..b6678282f 100644 --- a/docs/src/build.md +++ b/docs/src/build.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Quick links: Please also see [Installation](installing-miller.md) for information about pre-built executables. -You will need to first install Go version 1.15 or higher: please see [https://go.dev](https://go.dev). +You will need to first install Go ([this version](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/go.mod#L17)): please see [https://go.dev](https://go.dev). ## Miller license @@ -31,16 +31,16 @@ Two-clause BSD license [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/master/LICENSE.t * `cd mlr-i.j.k` * `cd go` * `make` creates the `./mlr` (or `.\mlr.exe` on Windows) executable - * Without `make`: `go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr` + * Without `make`: `go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr` * `make check` runs tests - * Without `make`: `go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/...` and `mlr regtest` + * Without `make`: `go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/...` and `mlr regtest` * `make install` installs the `mlr` executable and the `mlr` manpage - * Without make: `go install github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr` will install to _GOPATH_`/bin/mlr` + * Without make: `go install github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr` will install to _GOPATH_`/bin/mlr` ## From git clone * `git clone https://github.com/johnkerl/miller` -* `make`/`go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr` as above +* `make`/`go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr` as above ## In case of problems diff --git a/docs/src/build.md.in b/docs/src/build.md.in index 5138c9b8f..3d35ee560 100644 --- a/docs/src/build.md.in +++ b/docs/src/build.md.in @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Please also see [Installation](installing-miller.md) for information about pre-built executables. -You will need to first install Go version 1.15 or higher: please see [https://go.dev](https://go.dev). +You will need to first install Go ([this version](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/go.mod#L17)): please see [https://go.dev](https://go.dev). ## Miller license @@ -15,16 +15,16 @@ Two-clause BSD license [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/master/LICENSE.t * `cd mlr-i.j.k` * `cd go` * `make` creates the `./mlr` (or `.\mlr.exe` on Windows) executable - * Without `make`: `go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr` + * Without `make`: `go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr` * `make check` runs tests - * Without `make`: `go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/...` and `mlr regtest` + * Without `make`: `go test github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/...` and `mlr regtest` * `make install` installs the `mlr` executable and the `mlr` manpage - * Without make: `go install github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr` will install to _GOPATH_`/bin/mlr` + * Without make: `go install github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr` will install to _GOPATH_`/bin/mlr` ## From git clone * `git clone https://github.com/johnkerl/miller` -* `make`/`go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr` as above +* `make`/`go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr` as above ## In case of problems diff --git a/docs/src/data-diving-examples.md b/docs/src/data-diving-examples.md index 39738f193..297eca211 100644 --- a/docs/src/data-diving-examples.md +++ b/docs/src/data-diving-examples.md @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Vertical-tabular format is good for a quick look at CSV data layout -- seeing wh wc -l data/flins.csv
-   36635 data/flins.csv
+36635 data/flins.csv
 
@@ -160,11 +160,11 @@ CITRUS COUNTY       1332.9                 79974.9                483785.1
   stats2 -a corr,linreg-ols,r2 -f tiv_2011,tiv_2012
 
-tiv_2011_tiv_2012_corr  0.9730497632351692
-tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_m 0.9835583980337723
-tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_b 433854.6428968317
+tiv_2011_tiv_2012_corr  0.9730497632351701
+tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_m 0.9835583980337732
+tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_b 433854.6428968301
 tiv_2011_tiv_2012_ols_n 36634
-tiv_2011_tiv_2012_r2    0.9468258417320189
+tiv_2011_tiv_2012_r2    0.9468258417320204
 
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ Peek at the data:
 wc -l data/colored-shapes.dkvp
 
-   10078 data/colored-shapes.dkvp
+10078 data/colored-shapes.dkvp
 
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Look at bivariate stats by color and shape. In particular, `u,v` pairwise correl
 
           u_v_corr              w_x_corr
-0.1334180491027861 -0.011319841199866178
+0.1334180491027861 -0.011319841199852926
 
@@ -332,22 +332,22 @@ Look at bivariate stats by color and shape. In particular, `u,v` pairwise correl
 
  color    shape              u_v_corr               w_x_corr
-   red   circle    0.9807984401887236   -0.01856553658708754
-orange   square   0.17685855992752927   -0.07104431573806054
- green   circle   0.05764419437577255    0.01179572988801509
-   red   square   0.05574477124893523 -0.0006801456507510942
-yellow triangle   0.04457273771962798   0.024604310103081825
-yellow   square   0.04379172927296089   -0.04462197201631237
-purple   circle   0.03587354936895086     0.1341133954140899
-  blue   square   0.03241153095761164  -0.053507648119643196
-  blue triangle  0.015356427073158766 -0.0006089997461435399
-orange   circle  0.010518953877704048   -0.16279397329279383
-   red triangle   0.00809782571528034   0.012486621357942596
-purple triangle  0.005155190909099334  -0.045057909256220656
-purple   square -0.025680276963377404    0.05769429647930396
- green   square   -0.0257760734502851  -0.003265173252087127
-orange triangle -0.030456661186085785    -0.1318699981926352
-yellow   circle  -0.06477331572781474    0.07369449819706045
-  blue   circle  -0.10234761901929677  -0.030528539069837757
- green triangle  -0.10901825107358765   -0.04848782060162929
+   red   circle    0.9807984401887242  -0.018565536587084836
+orange   square   0.17685855992752933   -0.07104431573805543
+ green   circle   0.05764419437577257   0.011795729888018455
+   red   square    0.0557447712489348 -0.0006801456507506415
+yellow triangle    0.0445727377196281   0.024604310103079844
+yellow   square    0.0437917292729612  -0.044621972016306265
+purple   circle   0.03587354936895115    0.13411339541407613
+  blue   square   0.03241153095761152   -0.05350764811965621
+  blue triangle  0.015356427073158612 -0.0006089997461408209
+orange   circle  0.010518953877704181    -0.1627939732927932
+   red triangle   0.00809782571528054    0.01248662135795501
+purple triangle  0.005155190909099739   -0.04505790925621933
+purple   square  -0.02568027696337717   0.057694296479293694
+ green   square -0.025776073450284875 -0.0032651732520739014
+orange triangle -0.030456661186085584   -0.13186999819263814
+yellow   circle  -0.06477331572781515     0.0736944981970553
+  blue   circle   -0.1023476190192966  -0.030528539069839333
+ green triangle  -0.10901825107358747   -0.04848782060162855
 
diff --git a/docs/src/data/flatten-dots.csv b/docs/src/data/flatten-dots.csv new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6a7947149 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/src/data/flatten-dots.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +a,b.,.c,.,d..e,f.g +1,2,3,4,5,6 diff --git a/docs/src/date-time-examples.md b/docs/src/date-time-examples.md index 5bcbdac01..cab74de3c 100644 --- a/docs/src/date-time-examples.md +++ b/docs/src/date-time-examples.md @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ date,qoh wc -l data/miss-date.csv
-    1372 data/miss-date.csv
+1372 data/miss-date.csv
 
Since there are 1372 lines in the data file, some automation is called for. To find the missing dates, you can convert the dates to seconds since the epoch using `strptime`, then compute adjacent differences (the `cat -n` simply inserts record-counters): diff --git a/docs/src/extra.css b/docs/src/extra.css index 2f25087f2..e1395aff3 100644 --- a/docs/src/extra.css +++ b/docs/src/extra.css @@ -236,3 +236,8 @@ img { --md-footer-fg-color: #800000; --md-footer-fg-color: #eae2cb; } + +.md-nav__link--active { + text-decoration: underline; +} + diff --git a/docs/src/features.md b/docs/src/features.md index 36d4f66ee..ae1222a3f 100644 --- a/docs/src/features.md +++ b/docs/src/features.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Quick links: # Features -Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for **name-indexed data such as +Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for **name-indexed data, such as CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines**. You get to work with your data using named fields, without needing to count positional column indices. @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines. * Miller complements SQL **databases**: you can slice, dice, and reformat data on the client side on its way into or out of a database. (See [SQL Examples](sql-examples.md).) You can also reap some of the benefits of databases for quick, setup-free one-off tasks when you just need to query some data in disk files in a hurry. -* Miller also goes beyond the classic Unix tools by stepping fully into our modern, **no-SQL** world: its essential record-heterogeneity property allows Miller to operate on data where records with different schema (field names) are interleaved. +* Miller also goes beyond the classic Unix tools by stepping fully into our modern, **no-SQL** world: its essential record-heterogeneity property allows Miller to operate on data where records with different schemas (field names) are interleaved. -* Miller is **streaming**: most operations need only a single record in memory at a time, rather than ingesting all input before producing any output. For those operations which require deeper retention (`sort`, `tac`, `stats1`), Miller retains only as much data as needed. This means that whenever functionally possible, you can operate on files which are larger than your system's available RAM, and you can use Miller in **tail -f** contexts. +* Miller is **streaming**: most operations need only a single record in memory at a time, rather than ingesting all input before producing any output. For those operations that require deeper retention (`sort`, `tac`, `stats1`), Miller retains only as much data as needed. This means that whenever functionally possible, you can operate on files that are larger than your system's available RAM, and you can use Miller in **tail -f** contexts. * Miller is **pipe-friendly** and interoperates with the Unix toolkit @@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines. * Miller does **conversion** between formats -* Miller's **processing is format-aware**: e.g. CSV `sort` and `tac` keep header lines first +* Miller's **processing is format-aware**: e.g., CSV `sort` and `tac` keep header lines first * Miller has high-throughput **performance** on par with the Unix toolkit -* Not unlike [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) (for JSON), Miller is written in Go which is a portable, modern language, and Miller has no runtime dependencies. You can download or compile a single binary, `scp` it to a faraway machine, and expect it to work. +* Not unlike [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) (for JSON), Miller is written in Go, which is a portable, modern language, and Miller has no runtime dependencies. You can download or compile a single binary, `scp` it to a faraway machine, and expect it to work. Releases and release notes: [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases). diff --git a/docs/src/features.md.in b/docs/src/features.md.in index 22b2c5378..13ea25bb2 100644 --- a/docs/src/features.md.in +++ b/docs/src/features.md.in @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Features -Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for **name-indexed data such as +Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for **name-indexed data, such as CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines**. You get to work with your data using named fields, without needing to count positional column indices. @@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines. * Miller complements SQL **databases**: you can slice, dice, and reformat data on the client side on its way into or out of a database. (See [SQL Examples](sql-examples.md).) You can also reap some of the benefits of databases for quick, setup-free one-off tasks when you just need to query some data in disk files in a hurry. -* Miller also goes beyond the classic Unix tools by stepping fully into our modern, **no-SQL** world: its essential record-heterogeneity property allows Miller to operate on data where records with different schema (field names) are interleaved. +* Miller also goes beyond the classic Unix tools by stepping fully into our modern, **no-SQL** world: its essential record-heterogeneity property allows Miller to operate on data where records with different schemas (field names) are interleaved. -* Miller is **streaming**: most operations need only a single record in memory at a time, rather than ingesting all input before producing any output. For those operations which require deeper retention (`sort`, `tac`, `stats1`), Miller retains only as much data as needed. This means that whenever functionally possible, you can operate on files which are larger than your system's available RAM, and you can use Miller in **tail -f** contexts. +* Miller is **streaming**: most operations need only a single record in memory at a time, rather than ingesting all input before producing any output. For those operations that require deeper retention (`sort`, `tac`, `stats1`), Miller retains only as much data as needed. This means that whenever functionally possible, you can operate on files that are larger than your system's available RAM, and you can use Miller in **tail -f** contexts. * Miller is **pipe-friendly** and interoperates with the Unix toolkit @@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines. * Miller does **conversion** between formats -* Miller's **processing is format-aware**: e.g. CSV `sort` and `tac` keep header lines first +* Miller's **processing is format-aware**: e.g., CSV `sort` and `tac` keep header lines first * Miller has high-throughput **performance** on par with the Unix toolkit -* Not unlike [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) (for JSON), Miller is written in Go which is a portable, modern language, and Miller has no runtime dependencies. You can download or compile a single binary, `scp` it to a faraway machine, and expect it to work. +* Not unlike [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) (for JSON), Miller is written in Go, which is a portable, modern language, and Miller has no runtime dependencies. You can download or compile a single binary, `scp` it to a faraway machine, and expect it to work. Releases and release notes: [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases). diff --git a/docs/src/file-formats.md b/docs/src/file-formats.md index 7064b9b49..8a09dac54 100644 --- a/docs/src/file-formats.md +++ b/docs/src/file-formats.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Miller handles name-indexed data using several formats: some you probably know by name, such as CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines -- and other formats you're likely already seeing and using in your structured data. -Additionally, Miller gives you the option of including comments within your data. +Additionally, Miller gives you the option to include comments within your data. ## Examples @@ -102,21 +102,27 @@ NIDX: implicitly numerically indexed (Unix-toolkit style) ## CSV/TSV/ASV/USV/etc. -When `mlr` is invoked with the `--csv` or `--csvlite` option, key names are found on the first record and values are taken from subsequent records. This includes the case of CSV-formatted files. See [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md) for how Miller handles changes of field names within a single data stream. +When `mlr` is invoked with the `--csv` or `--csvlite` option, key names are found on the first record, and values are taken from subsequent records. This includes the case of CSV-formatted files. See [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md) for how Miller handles changes of field names within a single data stream. Miller has record separator `RS` and field separator `FS`, just as `awk` does. (See also the [separators page](reference-main-separators.md).) -**TSV (tab-separated values):** `FS` is tab and `RS` is newline (or carriage return + linefeed for -Windows). On input, if fields have `\r`, `\n`, `\t`, or `\\`, those are decoded as carriage return, -newline, tab, and backslash, respectively. On output, the reverse is done -- for example, if a field -has an embedded newline, that newline is replaced by `\n`. +**CSV (comma-separated values):** Miller's `--csv` flag supports [RFC-4180 CSV](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180). + +* This includes CRLF line terminators by default, regardless of platform. +* Any cell containing a comma or a carriage return within it must be double-quoted. + +**TSV (tab-separated values):** Miller's `--tsv` supports [IANA TSV](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/tab-separated-values). + +* `FS` is tab and `RS` is newline (or carriage return + linefeed for Windows). +* On input, if fields have `\r`, `\n`, `\t`, or `\\`, those are decoded as carriage return, newline, tab, and backslash, respectively. +* On output, the reverse is done -- for example, if a field has an embedded newline, that newline is replaced by `\n`. +* A tab within a cell must be encoded as `\t`. +* A carriage return within a cell must be encoded as `\n`. **ASV (ASCII-separated values):** the flags `--asv`, `--iasv`, `--oasv`, `--asvlite`, `--iasvlite`, and `--oasvlite` are analogous except they use ASCII FS and RS `0x1f` and `0x1e`, respectively. **USV (Unicode-separated values):** likewise, the flags `--usv`, `--iusv`, `--ousv`, `--usvlite`, `--iusvlite`, and `--ousvlite` use Unicode FS and RS `U+241F` (UTF-8 `0x0xe2909f`) and `U+241E` (UTF-8 `0xe2909e`), respectively. -Miller's `--csv` flag supports [RFC-4180 CSV](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180). This includes CRLF line-terminators by default, regardless of platform. - Here are the differences between CSV and CSV-lite: * CSV-lite naively splits lines on newline, and fields on comma -- embedded commas and newlines are not escaped in any way. @@ -125,8 +131,8 @@ Here are the differences between CSV and CSV-lite: * CSV does not allow heterogeneous data; CSV-lite does (see also [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md)). -* TSV-lite is simply CSV-lite with field separator set to tab instead of comma. -In particular, no encode/decode of `\r`, `\n`, `\t`, or `\\` is done. +* TSV-lite is simply CSV-lite with the field separator set to tab instead of a comma. +In particular, no encoding/decoding of `\r`, `\n`, `\t`, or `\\` is done. * CSV-lite allows changing FS and/or RS to any values, perhaps multi-character. @@ -202,21 +208,21 @@ mlr: exiting due to data error. CSV, TSV, CSV-lite, and TSV-lite have in common the `--implicit-csv-header` flag for input and the `--headerless-csv-output` flag for output. -See also the [`--lazy-quotes` flag](reference-main-flag-list.md#csv-only-flags) which can help with CSV files which are not fully compliant with RFC-4180. +See also the [`--lazy-quotes` flag](reference-main-flag-list.md#csv-only-flags), which can help with CSV files that are not fully compliant with RFC-4180. ## JSON [JSON](https://json.org) is a format which supports scalars (numbers, strings, -boolean, etc.) as well as "objects" (maps) and "arrays" (lists), while Miller +booleans, etc.) as well as "objects" (maps) and "arrays" (lists), while Miller is a tool for handling **tabular data** only. By *tabular JSON* I mean the data is either a sequence of one or more objects, or an array consisting of one or more objects. Miller treats JSON objects as name-indexed records. This means Miller cannot (and should not) handle arbitrary JSON. In practice, -though, Miller can handle single JSON objects as well as list of them. The only -kinds of JSON that are unmillerable are single scalars (e.g. file contents `3`) -and arrays of non-object (e.g. file contents `[1,2,3,4,5]`). Check out -[jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) for a tool which handles all valid JSON. +though, Miller can handle single JSON objects as well as lists of them. The only +kinds of JSON that are unmillerable are single scalars (e.g., file contents `3`) +and arrays of non-object (e.g., file contents `[1,2,3,4,5]`). Check out +[jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) for a tool that handles all valid JSON. In short, if you have tabular data represented in JSON -- lists of objects, either with or without outermost `[...]` -- [then Miller can handle that for @@ -330,7 +336,7 @@ input as well as output in JSON format, JSON structure is preserved throughout t ] -But if the input format is JSON and the output format is not (or vice versa) then key-concatenation applies: +But if the input format is JSON and the output format is not (or vice versa), then key-concatenation applies:
 mlr --ijson --opprint head -n 4 data/json-example-2.json
@@ -349,7 +355,7 @@ Use `--jflatsep yourseparatorhere` to specify the string used for key concatenat
 
 ### JSON-in-CSV
 
-It's quite common to have CSV data which contains stringified JSON as a column.
+It's quite common to have CSV data that contains stringified JSON as a column.
 See the [JSON parse and stringify section](reference-main-data-types.md#json-parse-and-stringify) for ways to
 decode these in Miller.
 
@@ -404,7 +410,7 @@ records; using `--ojsonl`, you get no outermost `[...]`, and one line per record
 
 ## PPRINT: Pretty-printed tabular
 
-Miller's pretty-print format is like CSV, but column-aligned.  For example, compare
+Miller's pretty-print format is similar to CSV, but with column alignment.  For example, compare
 
 
 mlr --ocsv cat data/small
@@ -430,7 +436,7 @@ eks wye 4 0.381399 0.134188
 wye pan 5 0.573288 0.863624
 
-Note that while Miller is a line-at-a-time processor and retains input lines in memory only where necessary (e.g. for sort), pretty-print output requires it to accumulate all input lines (so that it can compute maximum column widths) before producing any output. This has two consequences: (a) pretty-print output won't work on `tail -f` contexts, where Miller will be waiting for an end-of-file marker which never arrives; (b) pretty-print output for large files is constrained by available machine memory. +Note that while Miller is a line-at-a-time processor and retains input lines in memory only where necessary (e.g., for sort), pretty-print output requires it to accumulate all input lines (so that it can compute maximum column widths) before producing any output. This has two consequences: (a) Pretty-print output will not work in `tail -f` contexts, where Miller will be waiting for an end-of-file marker that never arrives; (b) Pretty-print output for large files is constrained by the available machine memory. See [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md) for how Miller handles changes of field names within a single data stream. @@ -499,7 +505,7 @@ Markdown format looks like this: | wye | pan | 5 | 0.573288 | 0.863624 |
-which renders like this when dropped into various web tools (e.g. github comments): +which renders like this when dropped into various web tools (e.g. github.comments): ![pix/omd.png](pix/omd.png) @@ -588,7 +594,7 @@ a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.381399,y=0.134188 a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.573288,y=0.863624 -Such data are easy to generate, e.g. in Ruby with +Such data is easy to generate, e.g., in Ruby with
 puts "host=#{hostname},seconds=#{t2-t1},message=#{msg}"
@@ -610,7 +616,7 @@ logger.log("type=3,user=$USER,date=$date\n");
 
 Fields lacking an IPS will have positional index (starting at 1) used as the key, as in NIDX format. For example, `dish=7,egg=8,flint` is parsed as `"dish" => "7", "egg" => "8", "3" => "flint"` and `dish,egg,flint` is parsed as `"1" => "dish", "2" => "egg", "3" => "flint"`.
 
-As discussed in [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md), Miller handles changes of field names within the same data stream. But using DKVP format this is particularly natural. One of my favorite use-cases for Miller is in application/server logs, where I log all sorts of lines such as
+As discussed in [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md), Miller handles changes of field names within the same data stream. But using DKVP format, this is particularly natural. One of my favorite use-cases for Miller is in application/server logs, where I log all sorts of lines such as
 
 
 resource=/path/to/file,loadsec=0.45,ok=true
@@ -618,10 +624,9 @@ record_count=100, resource=/path/to/file
 resource=/some/other/path,loadsec=0.97,ok=false
 
-etc. and I just log them as needed. Then later, I can use `grep`, `mlr --opprint group-like`, etc. -to analyze my logs. +etc., and I log them as needed. Then later, I can use `grep`, `mlr --opprint group-like`, etc. to analyze my logs. -See the [separators page](reference-main-separators.md) regarding how to specify separators other than the default equals-sign and comma. +See the [separators page](reference-main-separators.md) regarding how to specify separators other than the default equals sign and comma. ## NIDX: Index-numbered (toolkit style) @@ -706,17 +711,17 @@ As keystroke-savers for format-conversion you may use the following. The letters c, t, j, l, d, n, x, p, and m refer to formats CSV, TSV, DKVP, NIDX, JSON, JSON Lines, XTAB, PPRINT, and markdown, respectively. -| In\out | CSV | TSV | JSON | JSONL | DKVP | NIDX | XTAB | PPRINT | Markdown | -+----------+-------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------| -| CSV | | --c2t | --c2j | --c2l | --c2d | --c2n | --c2x | --c2p | --c2m | -| TSV | --t2c | | --t2j | --t2l | --t2d | --t2n | --t2x | --t2p | --t2m | -| JSON | --j2c | --j2t | | --j2l | --j2d | --j2n | --j2x | --j2p | --j2m | -| JSONL | --l2c | --l2t | | | --l2d | --l2n | --l2x | --l2p | --l2m | -| DKVP | --d2c | --d2t | --d2j | --d2l | | --d2n | --d2x | --d2p | --d2m | -| NIDX | --n2c | --n2t | --n2j | --n2l | --n2d | | --n2x | --n2p | --n2m | -| XTAB | --x2c | --x2t | --x2j | --x2l | --x2d | --x2n | | --x2p | --x2m | -| PPRINT | --p2c | --p2t | --p2j | --p2l | --p2d | --p2n | --p2x | | --p2m | -| Markdown | --m2c | --m2t | --m2j | --m2l | --m2d | --m2n | --m2x | --m2p | | +| In\out | CSV | TSV | JSON | JSONL | DKVP | NIDX | XTAB | PPRINT | Markdown | ++----------+----------+----------+----------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------+----------| +| CSV | --c2c,-c | --c2t | --c2j | --c2l | --c2d | --c2n | --c2x | --c2p | --c2m | +| TSV | --t2c | --t2t,-t | --t2j | --t2l | --t2d | --t2n | --t2x | --t2p | --t2m | +| JSON | --j2c | --j2t | --j2j,-j | --j2l | --j2d | --j2n | --j2x | --j2p | --j2m | +| JSONL | --l2c | --l2t | --l2j | --l2l | --l2d | --l2n | --l2x | --l2p | --l2m | +| DKVP | --d2c | --d2t | --d2j | --d2l | --d2d | --d2n | --d2x | --d2p | --d2m | +| NIDX | --n2c | --n2t | --n2j | --n2l | --n2d | --n2n | --n2x | --n2p | --n2m | +| XTAB | --x2c | --x2t | --x2j | --x2l | --x2d | --x2n | --x2x | --x2p | --x2m | +| PPRINT | --p2c | --p2t | --p2j | --p2l | --p2d | --p2n | --p2x | -p2p | --p2m | +| Markdown | --m2c | --m2t | --m2j | --m2l | --m2d | --m2n | --m2x | --m2p | | -p Keystroke-saver for `--nidx --fs space --repifs`. -T Keystroke-saver for `--nidx --fs tab`. @@ -724,7 +729,7 @@ JSON, JSON Lines, XTAB, PPRINT, and markdown, respectively. ## Comments in data -You can include comments within your data files, and either have them ignored, or passed directly through to the standard output as soon as they are encountered: +You can include comments within your data files, and either have them ignored or passed directly through to the standard output as soon as they are encountered:
 mlr help comments-in-data-flags
@@ -752,12 +757,14 @@ Notes:
                          within the input.
 --pass-comments-with {string}
                          Immediately print commented lines within input, with
-                         specified prefix.
+                         specified prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix
+                         must be a single character.
 --skip-comments          Ignore commented lines (prefixed by `#`) within the
                          input.
 --skip-comments-with {string}
                          Ignore commented lines within input, with specified
-                         prefix.
+                         prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix must be a
+                         single character.
 
Examples: diff --git a/docs/src/file-formats.md.in b/docs/src/file-formats.md.in index 36365a1fb..2ed581b19 100644 --- a/docs/src/file-formats.md.in +++ b/docs/src/file-formats.md.in @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Miller handles name-indexed data using several formats: some you probably know by name, such as CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines -- and other formats you're likely already seeing and using in your structured data. -Additionally, Miller gives you the option of including comments within your data. +Additionally, Miller gives you the option to include comments within your data. ## Examples @@ -14,21 +14,27 @@ GENMD-EOF ## CSV/TSV/ASV/USV/etc. -When `mlr` is invoked with the `--csv` or `--csvlite` option, key names are found on the first record and values are taken from subsequent records. This includes the case of CSV-formatted files. See [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md) for how Miller handles changes of field names within a single data stream. +When `mlr` is invoked with the `--csv` or `--csvlite` option, key names are found on the first record, and values are taken from subsequent records. This includes the case of CSV-formatted files. See [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md) for how Miller handles changes of field names within a single data stream. Miller has record separator `RS` and field separator `FS`, just as `awk` does. (See also the [separators page](reference-main-separators.md).) -**TSV (tab-separated values):** `FS` is tab and `RS` is newline (or carriage return + linefeed for -Windows). On input, if fields have `\r`, `\n`, `\t`, or `\\`, those are decoded as carriage return, -newline, tab, and backslash, respectively. On output, the reverse is done -- for example, if a field -has an embedded newline, that newline is replaced by `\n`. +**CSV (comma-separated values):** Miller's `--csv` flag supports [RFC-4180 CSV](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180). + +* This includes CRLF line terminators by default, regardless of platform. +* Any cell containing a comma or a carriage return within it must be double-quoted. + +**TSV (tab-separated values):** Miller's `--tsv` supports [IANA TSV](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/tab-separated-values). + +* `FS` is tab and `RS` is newline (or carriage return + linefeed for Windows). +* On input, if fields have `\r`, `\n`, `\t`, or `\\`, those are decoded as carriage return, newline, tab, and backslash, respectively. +* On output, the reverse is done -- for example, if a field has an embedded newline, that newline is replaced by `\n`. +* A tab within a cell must be encoded as `\t`. +* A carriage return within a cell must be encoded as `\n`. **ASV (ASCII-separated values):** the flags `--asv`, `--iasv`, `--oasv`, `--asvlite`, `--iasvlite`, and `--oasvlite` are analogous except they use ASCII FS and RS `0x1f` and `0x1e`, respectively. **USV (Unicode-separated values):** likewise, the flags `--usv`, `--iusv`, `--ousv`, `--usvlite`, `--iusvlite`, and `--ousvlite` use Unicode FS and RS `U+241F` (UTF-8 `0x0xe2909f`) and `U+241E` (UTF-8 `0xe2909e`), respectively. -Miller's `--csv` flag supports [RFC-4180 CSV](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180). This includes CRLF line-terminators by default, regardless of platform. - Here are the differences between CSV and CSV-lite: * CSV-lite naively splits lines on newline, and fields on comma -- embedded commas and newlines are not escaped in any way. @@ -37,8 +43,8 @@ Here are the differences between CSV and CSV-lite: * CSV does not allow heterogeneous data; CSV-lite does (see also [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md)). -* TSV-lite is simply CSV-lite with field separator set to tab instead of comma. -In particular, no encode/decode of `\r`, `\n`, `\t`, or `\\` is done. +* TSV-lite is simply CSV-lite with the field separator set to tab instead of a comma. +In particular, no encoding/decoding of `\r`, `\n`, `\t`, or `\\` is done. * CSV-lite allows changing FS and/or RS to any values, perhaps multi-character. @@ -71,21 +77,21 @@ GENMD-EOF CSV, TSV, CSV-lite, and TSV-lite have in common the `--implicit-csv-header` flag for input and the `--headerless-csv-output` flag for output. -See also the [`--lazy-quotes` flag](reference-main-flag-list.md#csv-only-flags) which can help with CSV files which are not fully compliant with RFC-4180. +See also the [`--lazy-quotes` flag](reference-main-flag-list.md#csv-only-flags), which can help with CSV files that are not fully compliant with RFC-4180. ## JSON [JSON](https://json.org) is a format which supports scalars (numbers, strings, -boolean, etc.) as well as "objects" (maps) and "arrays" (lists), while Miller +booleans, etc.) as well as "objects" (maps) and "arrays" (lists), while Miller is a tool for handling **tabular data** only. By *tabular JSON* I mean the data is either a sequence of one or more objects, or an array consisting of one or more objects. Miller treats JSON objects as name-indexed records. This means Miller cannot (and should not) handle arbitrary JSON. In practice, -though, Miller can handle single JSON objects as well as list of them. The only -kinds of JSON that are unmillerable are single scalars (e.g. file contents `3`) -and arrays of non-object (e.g. file contents `[1,2,3,4,5]`). Check out -[jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) for a tool which handles all valid JSON. +though, Miller can handle single JSON objects as well as lists of them. The only +kinds of JSON that are unmillerable are single scalars (e.g., file contents `3`) +and arrays of non-object (e.g., file contents `[1,2,3,4,5]`). Check out +[jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) for a tool that handles all valid JSON. In short, if you have tabular data represented in JSON -- lists of objects, either with or without outermost `[...]` -- [then Miller can handle that for @@ -123,7 +129,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --json head -n 2 data/json-example-2.json GENMD-EOF -But if the input format is JSON and the output format is not (or vice versa) then key-concatenation applies: +But if the input format is JSON and the output format is not (or vice versa), then key-concatenation applies: GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --ijson --opprint head -n 4 data/json-example-2.json @@ -135,7 +141,7 @@ Use `--jflatsep yourseparatorhere` to specify the string used for key concatenat ### JSON-in-CSV -It's quite common to have CSV data which contains stringified JSON as a column. +It's quite common to have CSV data that contains stringified JSON as a column. See the [JSON parse and stringify section](reference-main-data-types.md#json-parse-and-stringify) for ways to decode these in Miller. @@ -164,7 +170,7 @@ records; using `--ojsonl`, you get no outermost `[...]`, and one line per record ## PPRINT: Pretty-printed tabular -Miller's pretty-print format is like CSV, but column-aligned. For example, compare +Miller's pretty-print format is similar to CSV, but with column alignment. For example, compare GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --ocsv cat data/small @@ -174,7 +180,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --opprint cat data/small GENMD-EOF -Note that while Miller is a line-at-a-time processor and retains input lines in memory only where necessary (e.g. for sort), pretty-print output requires it to accumulate all input lines (so that it can compute maximum column widths) before producing any output. This has two consequences: (a) pretty-print output won't work on `tail -f` contexts, where Miller will be waiting for an end-of-file marker which never arrives; (b) pretty-print output for large files is constrained by available machine memory. +Note that while Miller is a line-at-a-time processor and retains input lines in memory only where necessary (e.g., for sort), pretty-print output requires it to accumulate all input lines (so that it can compute maximum column widths) before producing any output. This has two consequences: (a) Pretty-print output will not work in `tail -f` contexts, where Miller will be waiting for an end-of-file marker that never arrives; (b) Pretty-print output for large files is constrained by the available machine memory. See [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md) for how Miller handles changes of field names within a single data stream. @@ -198,7 +204,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --omd cat data/small GENMD-EOF -which renders like this when dropped into various web tools (e.g. github comments): +which renders like this when dropped into various web tools (e.g. github.comments): ![pix/omd.png](pix/omd.png) @@ -274,7 +280,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr cat data/small GENMD-EOF -Such data are easy to generate, e.g. in Ruby with +Such data is easy to generate, e.g., in Ruby with GENMD-CARDIFY puts "host=#{hostname},seconds=#{t2-t1},message=#{msg}" @@ -296,7 +302,7 @@ GENMD-EOF Fields lacking an IPS will have positional index (starting at 1) used as the key, as in NIDX format. For example, `dish=7,egg=8,flint` is parsed as `"dish" => "7", "egg" => "8", "3" => "flint"` and `dish,egg,flint` is parsed as `"1" => "dish", "2" => "egg", "3" => "flint"`. -As discussed in [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md), Miller handles changes of field names within the same data stream. But using DKVP format this is particularly natural. One of my favorite use-cases for Miller is in application/server logs, where I log all sorts of lines such as +As discussed in [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md), Miller handles changes of field names within the same data stream. But using DKVP format, this is particularly natural. One of my favorite use-cases for Miller is in application/server logs, where I log all sorts of lines such as GENMD-CARDIFY resource=/path/to/file,loadsec=0.45,ok=true @@ -304,10 +310,9 @@ record_count=100, resource=/path/to/file resource=/some/other/path,loadsec=0.97,ok=false GENMD-EOF -etc. and I just log them as needed. Then later, I can use `grep`, `mlr --opprint group-like`, etc. -to analyze my logs. +etc., and I log them as needed. Then later, I can use `grep`, `mlr --opprint group-like`, etc. to analyze my logs. -See the [separators page](reference-main-separators.md) regarding how to specify separators other than the default equals-sign and comma. +See the [separators page](reference-main-separators.md) regarding how to specify separators other than the default equals sign and comma. ## NIDX: Index-numbered (toolkit style) @@ -355,7 +360,7 @@ GENMD-EOF ## Comments in data -You can include comments within your data files, and either have them ignored, or passed directly through to the standard output as soon as they are encountered: +You can include comments within your data files, and either have them ignored or passed directly through to the standard output as soon as they are encountered: GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr help comments-in-data-flags diff --git a/docs/src/flatten-unflatten.md b/docs/src/flatten-unflatten.md index 7a3c138d2..da0e817db 100644 --- a/docs/src/flatten-unflatten.md +++ b/docs/src/flatten-unflatten.md @@ -348,6 +348,50 @@ a.1,a.3,a.5 ]
+## Non-inferencing cases + +An additional heuristic is that if a field name starts with a `.`, ends with +a `.`, or has two or more consecutive `.` characters, no attempt is made +to unflatten it on conversion from non-JSON to JSON. + +
+cat data/flatten-dots.csv
+
+
+a,b.,.c,.,d..e,f.g
+1,2,3,4,5,6
+
+ +
+mlr --icsv --oxtab cat data/flatten-dots.csv
+
+
+a    1
+b.   2
+.c   3
+.    4
+d..e 5
+f.g  6
+
+ +
+mlr --icsv --ojson cat data/flatten-dots.csv
+
+
+[
+{
+  "a": 1,
+  "b.": 2,
+  ".c": 3,
+  ".": 4,
+  "d..e": 5,
+  "f": {
+    "g": 6
+  }
+}
+]
+
+ ## Manual control To see what our options are for manually controlling flattening and diff --git a/docs/src/flatten-unflatten.md.in b/docs/src/flatten-unflatten.md.in index 68033d594..951ea1f58 100644 --- a/docs/src/flatten-unflatten.md.in +++ b/docs/src/flatten-unflatten.md.in @@ -156,6 +156,24 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --c2j cat data/non-consecutive.csv GENMD-EOF +## Non-inferencing cases + +An additional heuristic is that if a field name starts with a `.`, ends with +a `.`, or has two or more consecutive `.` characters, no attempt is made +to unflatten it on conversion from non-JSON to JSON. + +GENMD-RUN-COMMAND +cat data/flatten-dots.csv +GENMD-EOF + +GENMD-RUN-COMMAND +mlr --icsv --oxtab cat data/flatten-dots.csv +GENMD-EOF + +GENMD-RUN-COMMAND +mlr --icsv --ojson cat data/flatten-dots.csv +GENMD-EOF + ## Manual control To see what our options are for manually controlling flattening and diff --git a/docs/src/how-to-release.md b/docs/src/how-to-release.md index 57d39b2ff..b19529094 100644 --- a/docs/src/how-to-release.md +++ b/docs/src/how-to-release.md @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ In this example I am using version 6.2.0 to 6.3.0; of course that will change fo * This creates `miller-6.3.0.tar.gz` which we'll upload to GitHub, the URL of which will be in our `miller.spec` * Prepare the source RPM following [README-RPM.md](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/README-RPM.md). -* Create the Github release tag: +* Create the GitHub release tag: * Don't forget the `v` in `v6.3.0` * Write the release notes -- save as a pre-release until below @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ In this example I am using version 6.2.0 to 6.3.0; of course that will change fo * Thanks to [PR 822](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/822) which introduces [goreleaser](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/.goreleaser.yml) there are versions for many platforms auto-built and auto-attached to the GitHub release. * Attach the release tarball and SRPM. Double-check assets were successfully uploaded. * Publish the release in pre-release mode, until all CI jobs finish successfully. Note that gorelease will create and attach the rest of the binaries. - * Before marking the release as public, download an executable from among the generated binaries and make sure its `mlr version` prints what you expect -- else, restart this process. + * Before marking the release as public, download an executable from among the generated binaries and make sure its `mlr version` prints what you expect -- else, restart this process. MacOS: `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./mlr` first. * Then mark the release as public. * Build the release-specific docs: diff --git a/docs/src/how-to-release.md.in b/docs/src/how-to-release.md.in index b54b1be26..522cdbfa9 100644 --- a/docs/src/how-to-release.md.in +++ b/docs/src/how-to-release.md.in @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ In this example I am using version 6.2.0 to 6.3.0; of course that will change fo * This creates `miller-6.3.0.tar.gz` which we'll upload to GitHub, the URL of which will be in our `miller.spec` * Prepare the source RPM following [README-RPM.md](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/README-RPM.md). -* Create the Github release tag: +* Create the GitHub release tag: * Don't forget the `v` in `v6.3.0` * Write the release notes -- save as a pre-release until below @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ In this example I am using version 6.2.0 to 6.3.0; of course that will change fo * Thanks to [PR 822](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/822) which introduces [goreleaser](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/.goreleaser.yml) there are versions for many platforms auto-built and auto-attached to the GitHub release. * Attach the release tarball and SRPM. Double-check assets were successfully uploaded. * Publish the release in pre-release mode, until all CI jobs finish successfully. Note that gorelease will create and attach the rest of the binaries. - * Before marking the release as public, download an executable from among the generated binaries and make sure its `mlr version` prints what you expect -- else, restart this process. + * Before marking the release as public, download an executable from among the generated binaries and make sure its `mlr version` prints what you expect -- else, restart this process. MacOS: `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ./mlr` first. * Then mark the release as public. * Build the release-specific docs: diff --git a/docs/src/index.md b/docs/src/index.md index 799123fca..bcb69c8ed 100644 --- a/docs/src/index.md +++ b/docs/src/index.md @@ -16,20 +16,20 @@ Quick links: # Introduction -**Miller is a command-line tool for querying, shaping, and reformatting data files in various formats including CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines.** +**Miller is a command-line tool for querying, shaping, and reformatting data files in various formats, including CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines.** -**The big picture:** Even well into the 21st century, our world is full of text-formatted data like CSV. Google _CSV memes_, for example. We need tooling to _thrive in this world_, nimbly manipulating data which is in CSVs. And we need tooling to _move beyond CSV_, to be able to pull data out and into other storage and processing systems. Miller is designed for both these goals. +**The big picture:** Even well into the 21st century, our world is full of text-formatted data such as CSV. Google _CSV memes_, for example. We need tooling to _thrive in this world_, nimbly manipulating data which is in CSVs. And we need tooling to _move beyond CSV_, to be able to pull data out and into other storage and processing systems. Miller is designed for both of these goals. In several senses, Miller is more than one tool: **Format conversion:** You can convert CSV files to JSON, or vice versa, or pretty-print your data horizontally or vertically to make it easier to read. -**Data manipulation:** With a few keystrokes you can remove columns you don't care about -- or, make new ones. +**Data manipulation:** With a few keystrokes, you can remove columns you don't care about -- or make new ones. -**Pre-processing/post-processing vs standalone use:** You can use Miller to clean data files and put them into standard formats, perhaps in preparation to load them into a database or a hands-off data-processing pipeline. Or you can use it post-process and summary database-query output. As well, you can use Miller to explore and analyze your data interactively. +**Pre-processing/post-processing vs standalone use:** You can use Miller to clean data files and put them into standard formats, perhaps in preparation for loading them into a database or a hands-off data-processing pipeline. Or you can use it post-process and summarize database-query output. As well, you can use Miller to explore and analyze your data interactively. -**Compact verbs vs programming language:** For low-keystroking you can do things like +**Compact verbs vs programming language:** For low-keystroking, you can do things like
 mlr --csv sort -f name input.csv
@@ -39,16 +39,16 @@ pretty-print your data horizontally or vertically to make it easier to read.
 mlr --json head -n 1 myfile.json
 
-The `sort`, `head`, etc are called *verbs*. They're analogs of familiar command-line tools like `sort`, `head`, and so on -- but they're aware of name-indexed, multi-line file formats like CSV, TSV, and JSON. In addition, though, using Miller's `put` verb you can use programming-language statements for expressions like +The `sort`, `head`, etc., are called *verbs*. They're analogs of familiar command-line tools like `sort`, `head`, and so on -- but they're aware of name-indexed, multi-line file formats like CSV, TSV, and JSON. In addition, though, using Miller's `put` verb, you can use programming-language statements for expressions like
 mlr --csv put '$rate = $units / $seconds' input.csv
 
-which allow you to succintly express your own logic. +which allow you to express your own logic succinctly. **Multiple domains:** People use Miller for data analysis, data science, software engineering, devops/system-administration, journalism, scientific research, and more. -In the following you can see how CSV, TSV, tabular, JSON, and other **file formats** share a common theme which is **lists of key-value-pairs**. Miller embraces this common theme. +In the following, you can see how CSV, TSV, tabular, JSON, and other **file formats** share a common theme which is **lists of key-value-pairs**. Miller embraces this common theme. ![coverart/cover-combined.png](coverart/cover-combined.png) diff --git a/docs/src/index.md.in b/docs/src/index.md.in index 6d16f6d19..25073a3f1 100644 --- a/docs/src/index.md.in +++ b/docs/src/index.md.in @@ -1,19 +1,19 @@ # Introduction -**Miller is a command-line tool for querying, shaping, and reformatting data files in various formats including CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines.** +**Miller is a command-line tool for querying, shaping, and reformatting data files in various formats, including CSV, TSV, JSON, and JSON Lines.** -**The big picture:** Even well into the 21st century, our world is full of text-formatted data like CSV. Google _CSV memes_, for example. We need tooling to _thrive in this world_, nimbly manipulating data which is in CSVs. And we need tooling to _move beyond CSV_, to be able to pull data out and into other storage and processing systems. Miller is designed for both these goals. +**The big picture:** Even well into the 21st century, our world is full of text-formatted data such as CSV. Google _CSV memes_, for example. We need tooling to _thrive in this world_, nimbly manipulating data which is in CSVs. And we need tooling to _move beyond CSV_, to be able to pull data out and into other storage and processing systems. Miller is designed for both of these goals. In several senses, Miller is more than one tool: **Format conversion:** You can convert CSV files to JSON, or vice versa, or pretty-print your data horizontally or vertically to make it easier to read. -**Data manipulation:** With a few keystrokes you can remove columns you don't care about -- or, make new ones. +**Data manipulation:** With a few keystrokes, you can remove columns you don't care about -- or make new ones. -**Pre-processing/post-processing vs standalone use:** You can use Miller to clean data files and put them into standard formats, perhaps in preparation to load them into a database or a hands-off data-processing pipeline. Or you can use it post-process and summary database-query output. As well, you can use Miller to explore and analyze your data interactively. +**Pre-processing/post-processing vs standalone use:** You can use Miller to clean data files and put them into standard formats, perhaps in preparation for loading them into a database or a hands-off data-processing pipeline. Or you can use it post-process and summarize database-query output. As well, you can use Miller to explore and analyze your data interactively. -**Compact verbs vs programming language:** For low-keystroking you can do things like +**Compact verbs vs programming language:** For low-keystroking, you can do things like GENMD-SHOW-COMMAND mlr --csv sort -f name input.csv @@ -23,16 +23,16 @@ GENMD-SHOW-COMMAND mlr --json head -n 1 myfile.json GENMD-EOF -The `sort`, `head`, etc are called *verbs*. They're analogs of familiar command-line tools like `sort`, `head`, and so on -- but they're aware of name-indexed, multi-line file formats like CSV, TSV, and JSON. In addition, though, using Miller's `put` verb you can use programming-language statements for expressions like +The `sort`, `head`, etc., are called *verbs*. They're analogs of familiar command-line tools like `sort`, `head`, and so on -- but they're aware of name-indexed, multi-line file formats like CSV, TSV, and JSON. In addition, though, using Miller's `put` verb, you can use programming-language statements for expressions like GENMD-SHOW-COMMAND mlr --csv put '$rate = $units / $seconds' input.csv GENMD-EOF -which allow you to succintly express your own logic. +which allow you to express your own logic succinctly. **Multiple domains:** People use Miller for data analysis, data science, software engineering, devops/system-administration, journalism, scientific research, and more. -In the following you can see how CSV, TSV, tabular, JSON, and other **file formats** share a common theme which is **lists of key-value-pairs**. Miller embraces this common theme. +In the following, you can see how CSV, TSV, tabular, JSON, and other **file formats** share a common theme which is **lists of key-value-pairs**. Miller embraces this common theme. ![coverart/cover-combined.png](coverart/cover-combined.png) diff --git a/docs/src/installing-miller.md b/docs/src/installing-miller.md index b5ae44227..9de4558ff 100644 --- a/docs/src/installing-miller.md +++ b/docs/src/installing-miller.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ You can install Miller for various platforms as follows. Download a binary: * You can get binaries for several platforms on the [releases page](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases). -* You can get latest (head) builds for Linux, MacOS, and Windows by visiting [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions), selecting the latest build, and clicking _Artifacts_. (These are retained for 5 days after each commit.) +* You can get the latest (head) builds for Linux, MacOS, and Windows by visiting [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions), selecting the latest build, and clicking _Artifacts_. (These are retained for 5 days after each commit.) * See also the [build page](build.md) if you prefer to build from source. Using a package manager: @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Using a package manager: * MacOS: `brew update` and `brew install miller`, or `sudo port selfupdate` and `sudo port install miller`, depending on your preference of [Homebrew](https://brew.sh) or [MacPorts](https://macports.org). * Windows: `choco install miller` using [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org). * Note: Miller 6 was released 2022-01-09; [several platforms](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/README-versions.md) may have Miller 5 available. +* As of Miller 6.16.0, you can do `snap install miller`. Note however that the executable is named `miller`, _not_ `mlr`. See also [https://snapcraft.io/miller](https://snapcraft.io/miller). See also: @@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ See also: * [@jauderho](https://github.com/jauderho)'s [docker images](https://hub.docker.com/r/jauderho/miller/tags) as discussed in [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/discussions/851#discussioncomment-1943255) * Example invocation: `docker run --rm -i jauderho/miller:latest --csv sort -f shape < ./example.csv` -Note that the [Miller releases page](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases), `brew`, `macports`, `chocolatey`, and `conda` tend to have current versions; `yum` and `apt-get` may have outdate versions depending on your platform. +Note that the [Miller releases page](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases), `brew`, `macports`, `chocolatey`, and `conda` tend to have current versions; `yum` and `apt-get` may have outdated versions depending on your platform. As a first check, you should be able to run `mlr --version` at your system's command prompt and see something like the following: @@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ mlr 6.0.0 A note on documentation: -* If you downloaded the Miller binary from a tagged release, or installed it using a package manager, you should see a version like `mlr 6.0.0` or `mlr 5.10.3` -- please see the [release docs page](release-docs.md) to find the documentation for your version. +* If you downloaded the Miller binary from a tagged release or installed it using a package manager, you should see a version like `mlr 6.0.0` or `mlr 5.10.3` -- please see the [release docs page](release-docs.md) to find the documentation for your version. * If you installed from source or using a recent build artifact from GitHub Actions, you should see a version like `mlr 6.0.0-dev` -- [https://miller.readthedocs.io](https://miller.readthedocs.io) is the correct reference, since it contains information for the latest contributions to the [Miller repository](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller). As a second check, given [example.csv](./example.csv) you should be able to do @@ -89,6 +90,6 @@ yellow circle true 9 87 63.5058 8.3350 purple square false 10 91 72.3735 8.2430 -If you run into issues on these checks, please check out the resources on the [community page](community.md) for help. +If you encounter issues with these checks, please refer to the resources on the [community page](community.md) for help. Otherwise, let's go on to [Miller in 10 minutes](10min.md)! diff --git a/docs/src/installing-miller.md.in b/docs/src/installing-miller.md.in index da908cdc5..74e5c9f53 100644 --- a/docs/src/installing-miller.md.in +++ b/docs/src/installing-miller.md.in @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ You can install Miller for various platforms as follows. Download a binary: * You can get binaries for several platforms on the [releases page](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases). -* You can get latest (head) builds for Linux, MacOS, and Windows by visiting [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions), selecting the latest build, and clicking _Artifacts_. (These are retained for 5 days after each commit.) +* You can get the latest (head) builds for Linux, MacOS, and Windows by visiting [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions), selecting the latest build, and clicking _Artifacts_. (These are retained for 5 days after each commit.) * See also the [build page](build.md) if you prefer to build from source. Using a package manager: @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Using a package manager: * MacOS: `brew update` and `brew install miller`, or `sudo port selfupdate` and `sudo port install miller`, depending on your preference of [Homebrew](https://brew.sh) or [MacPorts](https://macports.org). * Windows: `choco install miller` using [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org). * Note: Miller 6 was released 2022-01-09; [several platforms](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/README-versions.md) may have Miller 5 available. +* As of Miller 6.16.0, you can do `snap install miller`. Note however that the executable is named `miller`, _not_ `mlr`. See also [https://snapcraft.io/miller](https://snapcraft.io/miller). See also: @@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ See also: * [@jauderho](https://github.com/jauderho)'s [docker images](https://hub.docker.com/r/jauderho/miller/tags) as discussed in [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/discussions/851#discussioncomment-1943255) * Example invocation: `docker run --rm -i jauderho/miller:latest --csv sort -f shape < ./example.csv` -Note that the [Miller releases page](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases), `brew`, `macports`, `chocolatey`, and `conda` tend to have current versions; `yum` and `apt-get` may have outdate versions depending on your platform. +Note that the [Miller releases page](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases), `brew`, `macports`, `chocolatey`, and `conda` tend to have current versions; `yum` and `apt-get` may have outdated versions depending on your platform. As a first check, you should be able to run `mlr --version` at your system's command prompt and see something like the following: @@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ GENMD-EOF A note on documentation: -* If you downloaded the Miller binary from a tagged release, or installed it using a package manager, you should see a version like `mlr 6.0.0` or `mlr 5.10.3` -- please see the [release docs page](release-docs.md) to find the documentation for your version. +* If you downloaded the Miller binary from a tagged release or installed it using a package manager, you should see a version like `mlr 6.0.0` or `mlr 5.10.3` -- please see the [release docs page](release-docs.md) to find the documentation for your version. * If you installed from source or using a recent build artifact from GitHub Actions, you should see a version like `mlr 6.0.0-dev` -- [https://miller.readthedocs.io](https://miller.readthedocs.io) is the correct reference, since it contains information for the latest contributions to the [Miller repository](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller). As a second check, given [example.csv](./example.csv) you should be able to do @@ -45,6 +46,6 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --icsv --opprint cat example.csv GENMD-EOF -If you run into issues on these checks, please check out the resources on the [community page](community.md) for help. +If you encounter issues with these checks, please refer to the resources on the [community page](community.md) for help. Otherwise, let's go on to [Miller in 10 minutes](10min.md)! diff --git a/docs/src/keystroke-savers.md b/docs/src/keystroke-savers.md index c62231709..ec15e9308 100644 --- a/docs/src/keystroke-savers.md +++ b/docs/src/keystroke-savers.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Quick links: ## Short format specifiers, including --c2p -In our examples so far we've often made use of `mlr --icsv --opprint` or `mlr --icsv --ojson`. These are such frequently occurring patterns that they have short options like `--c2p` and `--c2j`: +In our examples so far, we've often made use of `mlr --icsv --opprint` or `mlr --icsv --ojson`. These are such frequently occurring patterns that they have short options like `--c2p` and `--c2j`:
 mlr --c2p head -n 2 example.csv
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ You can get the full list [here](file-formats.md#data-conversion-keystroke-saver
 
 ## File names up front, including --from
 
-Already we saw that you can put the filename first using `--from`. When you're interacting with your data at the command line, this makes it easier to up-arrow and append to the previous command:
+Already, we saw that you can put the filename first using `--from`. When you're interacting with your data at the command line, this makes it easier to up-arrow and append to the previous command:
 
 
 mlr --c2p --from example.csv sort -nr index then head -n 3
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ I think `mlr --csv ...` explains itself better than `mlr -c ...`. Nonetheless, t
 
 ## .mlrrc file
 
-If you want the default file format for Miller to be CSV, you can simply put `--csv` on a line by itself in your `~/.mlrrc` file. Then instead of `mlr --csv cat example.csv` you can just do `mlr cat example.csv`. This is just a personal default, though, so `mlr --opprint cat example.csv` will use default CSV format for input, and PPRINT (tabular) for output.
+If you want the default file format for Miller to be CSV, you can put `--csv` on a line by itself in your `~/.mlrrc` file. Then, instead of `mlr --csv cat example.csv` you can just do `mlr cat example.csv`. This is just a personal default, though, so `mlr --opprint cat example.csv` will use default CSV format for input, and PPRINT (tabular) for output.
 
 You can read more about this at the [Customization](customization.md) page.
 
@@ -126,6 +126,6 @@ fraction -f count \
 filename-which-varies.csv
 
-Typing this out can get a bit old, if the only thing that changes for you is the filename. +Typing this out can get a bit old if the only thing that changes for you is the filename. See [Scripting with Miller](scripting.md) for some keystroke-saving options. diff --git a/docs/src/keystroke-savers.md.in b/docs/src/keystroke-savers.md.in index 720dfad14..648c63fc7 100644 --- a/docs/src/keystroke-savers.md.in +++ b/docs/src/keystroke-savers.md.in @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ## Short format specifiers, including --c2p -In our examples so far we've often made use of `mlr --icsv --opprint` or `mlr --icsv --ojson`. These are such frequently occurring patterns that they have short options like `--c2p` and `--c2j`: +In our examples so far, we've often made use of `mlr --icsv --opprint` or `mlr --icsv --ojson`. These are such frequently occurring patterns that they have short options like `--c2p` and `--c2j`: GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --c2p head -n 2 example.csv @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ You can get the full list [here](file-formats.md#data-conversion-keystroke-saver ## File names up front, including --from -Already we saw that you can put the filename first using `--from`. When you're interacting with your data at the command line, this makes it easier to up-arrow and append to the previous command: +Already, we saw that you can put the filename first using `--from`. When you're interacting with your data at the command line, this makes it easier to up-arrow and append to the previous command: GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --c2p --from example.csv sort -nr index then head -n 3 @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ I think `mlr --csv ...` explains itself better than `mlr -c ...`. Nonetheless, t ## .mlrrc file -If you want the default file format for Miller to be CSV, you can simply put `--csv` on a line by itself in your `~/.mlrrc` file. Then instead of `mlr --csv cat example.csv` you can just do `mlr cat example.csv`. This is just a personal default, though, so `mlr --opprint cat example.csv` will use default CSV format for input, and PPRINT (tabular) for output. +If you want the default file format for Miller to be CSV, you can put `--csv` on a line by itself in your `~/.mlrrc` file. Then, instead of `mlr --csv cat example.csv` you can just do `mlr cat example.csv`. This is just a personal default, though, so `mlr --opprint cat example.csv` will use default CSV format for input, and PPRINT (tabular) for output. You can read more about this at the [Customization](customization.md) page. @@ -71,6 +71,6 @@ fraction -f count \ filename-which-varies.csv GENMD-EOF -Typing this out can get a bit old, if the only thing that changes for you is the filename. +Typing this out can get a bit old if the only thing that changes for you is the filename. See [Scripting with Miller](scripting.md) for some keystroke-saving options. diff --git a/docs/src/manpage.md b/docs/src/manpage.md index 967d18d7f..39203a0c9 100644 --- a/docs/src/manpage.md +++ b/docs/src/manpage.md @@ -19,9 +19,7 @@ Quick links: This is simply a copy of what you should see on running `man mlr` at a command prompt, once Miller is installed on your system.
-MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
-
-
+4mMILLER24m(1)                                                            4mMILLER24m(1)
 
 1mNAME0m
        Miller -- like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such
@@ -50,7 +48,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        insertion-ordered hash map.  This encompasses a variety of data
        formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON.
        (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as a special case.) This
-       manpage documents mlr 6.11.0.
+       manpage documents mlr 6.16.0.
 
 1mEXAMPLES0m
        mlr --icsv --opprint cat example.csv
@@ -147,6 +145,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
          mlr help comments-in-data-flags
          mlr help compressed-data-flags
          mlr help csv/tsv-only-flags
+         mlr help dkvp-only-flags
          mlr help file-format-flags
          mlr help flatten-unflatten-flags
          mlr help format-conversion-keystroke-saver-flags
@@ -199,9 +198,9 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        json-parse json-stringify join label latin1-to-utf8 least-frequent
        merge-fields most-frequent nest nothing put regularize remove-empty-columns
        rename reorder repeat reshape sample sec2gmtdate sec2gmt seqgen shuffle
-       skip-trivial-records sort sort-within-records split ssub stats1 stats2 step
-       sub summary tac tail tee template top utf8-to-latin1 unflatten uniq unspace
-       unsparsify
+       skip-trivial-records sort sort-within-records sparsify split ssub stats1
+       stats2 step sub summary surv tac tail tee template top utf8-to-latin1
+       unflatten uniq unspace unsparsify
 
 1mFUNCTION LIST0m
        abs acos acosh antimode any append apply arrayify asin asinh asserting_absent
@@ -225,7 +224,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        percentiles pow qnorm reduce regextract regextract_or_else rightpad round
        roundm rstrip sec2dhms sec2gmt sec2gmtdate sec2hms sec2localdate sec2localtime
        select sgn sha1 sha256 sha512 sin sinh skewness sort sort_collection splita
-       splitax splitkv splitkvx splitnv splitnvx sqrt ssub stddev strfntime
+       splitax splitkv splitkvx splitnv splitnvx sqrt ssub stat stddev strfntime
        strfntime_local strftime strftime_local string strip strlen strmatch strmatchx
        strpntime strpntime_local strptime strptime_local sub substr substr0 substr1
        sum sum2 sum3 sum4 sysntime system systime systimeint tan tanh tolower toupper
@@ -256,12 +255,14 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
                                 within the input.
        --pass-comments-with {string}
                                 Immediately print commented lines within input, with
-                                specified prefix.
+                                specified prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix
+                                must be a single character.
        --skip-comments          Ignore commented lines (prefixed by `#`) within the
                                 input.
        --skip-comments-with {string}
                                 Ignore commented lines within input, with specified
-                                prefix.
+                                prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix must be a
+                                single character.
 
 1mCOMPRESSED-DATA FLAGS0m
        Miller offers a few different ways to handle reading data files
@@ -340,6 +341,10 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
                                 recreate missing headers.
        --lazy-quotes            Accepts quotes appearing in unquoted fields, and
                                 non-doubled quotes appearing in quoted fields.
+       --no-auto-unsparsify     For CSV/TSV output: if the record keys change from
+                                one row to another, emit a blank line and a new
+                                header line. This is non-compliant with RFC 4180 but
+                                it helpful for heterogeneous data.
        --no-implicit-csv-header or --no-implicit-tsv-header
                                 Opposite of `--implicit-csv-header`. This is the
                                 default anyway -- the main use is for the flags to
@@ -354,6 +359,16 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        -N                       Keystroke-saver for `--implicit-csv-header
                                 --headerless-csv-output`.
 
+1mDKVP-ONLY FLAGS0m
+       These are flags which are applicable to DKVP format.
+
+       --incr-key               Without this option, keyless DKVP fields are keyed by
+                                field number. For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50` is
+                                ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$3=30,$d=40,$5=50`. With
+                                this option, they're keyed by a running counter of
+                                keyless fields. For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50`
+                                is ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$1=30,$d=40,$2=50`.
+
 1mFILE-FORMAT FLAGS0m
        See the File formats doc page, and or `mlr help file-formats`, for more
        about file formats Miller supports.
@@ -366,9 +381,9 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`.
 
        --asv or --asvlite       Use ASV format for input and output data.
-       --csv or -c              Use CSV format for input and output data.
+       --csv or -c or --c2c     Use CSV format for input and output data.
        --csvlite                Use CSV-lite format for input and output data.
-       --dkvp                   Use DKVP format for input and output data.
+       --dkvp or --d2d          Use DKVP format for input and output data.
        --gen-field-name         Specify field name for --igen. Defaults to "i".
        --gen-start              Specify start value for --igen. Defaults to 1.
        --gen-step               Specify step value for --igen. Defaults to 1.
@@ -392,9 +407,9 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        --itsvlite               Use TSV-lite format for input data.
        --iusv or --iusvlite     Use USV format for input data.
        --ixtab                  Use XTAB format for input data.
-       --json or -j             Use JSON format for input and output data.
-       --jsonl                  Use JSON Lines format for input and output data.
-       --nidx                   Use NIDX format for input and output data.
+       --json or -j or --j2j    Use JSON format for input and output data.
+       --jsonl or --l2l         Use JSON Lines format for input and output data.
+       --nidx or --n2n          Use NIDX format for input and output data.
        --oasv or --oasvlite     Use ASV format for output data.
        --ocsv                   Use CSV format for output data.
        --ocsvlite               Use CSV-lite format for output data.
@@ -408,11 +423,11 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        --otsvlite               Use TSV-lite format for output data.
        --ousv or --ousvlite     Use USV format for output data.
        --oxtab                  Use XTAB format for output data.
-       --pprint                 Use PPRINT format for input and output data.
-       --tsv or -t              Use TSV format for input and output data.
+       --pprint or --p2p        Use PPRINT format for input and output data.
+       --tsv or -t or --t2t     Use TSV format for input and output data.
        --tsvlite                Use TSV-lite format for input and output data.
        --usv or --usvlite       Use USV format for input and output data.
-       --xtab                   Use XTAB format for input and output data.
+       --xtab or --x2x          Use XTAB format for input and output data.
        --xvright                Right-justify values for XTAB format.
        -i {format name}         Use format name for input data. For example: `-i csv`
                                 is the same as `--icsv`.
@@ -422,7 +437,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
 1mFLATTEN-UNFLATTEN FLAGS0m
        These flags control how Miller converts record values which are maps or arrays, when input is JSON and output is non-JSON (flattening) or input is non-JSON and output is JSON (unflattening).
 
-       See the Flatten/unflatten doc page for more information.
+       See the flatten/unflatten doc page https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/flatten-unflatten for more information.
 
        --flatsep or --jflatsep {string}
                                 Separator for flattening multi-level JSON keys, e.g.
@@ -430,32 +445,31 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
                                 formats. Defaults to `.`.
        --no-auto-flatten        When output is non-JSON, suppress the default
                                 auto-flatten behavior. Default: if `$y = [7,8,9]`
-                                then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9, and
+                                then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9`, and
                                 similarly for maps. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead
                                 we get `$y=[1, 2, 3]`.
-       --no-auto-unflatten      When input non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress the
-                                default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the
+       --no-auto-unflatten      When input is non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress
+                                the default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the
                                 input has `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9` then this unflattens to
-                                `$y=[7,8,9]`. flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9. With
-                                `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get
-                                `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`.
+                                `$y=[7,8,9]`. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we
+                                get `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`.
 
 1mFORMAT-CONVERSION KEYSTROKE-SAVER FLAGS0m
        As keystroke-savers for format-conversion you may use the following.
        The letters c, t, j, l, d, n, x, p, and m refer to formats CSV, TSV, DKVP, NIDX,
        JSON, JSON Lines, XTAB, PPRINT, and markdown, respectively.
 
-       | In\out   | CSV   | TSV   | JSON   | JSONL  | DKVP   | NIDX   | XTAB   | PPRINT | Markdown |
-       +----------+-------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------|
-       | CSV      |       | --c2t | --c2j  | --c2l  | --c2d  | --c2n  | --c2x  | --c2p  | --c2m    |
-       | TSV      | --t2c |       | --t2j  | --t2l  | --t2d  | --t2n  | --t2x  | --t2p  | --t2m    |
-       | JSON     | --j2c | --j2t |        | --j2l  | --j2d  | --j2n  | --j2x  | --j2p  | --j2m    |
-       | JSONL    | --l2c | --l2t |        |        | --l2d  | --l2n  | --l2x  | --l2p  | --l2m    |
-       | DKVP     | --d2c | --d2t | --d2j  | --d2l  |        | --d2n  | --d2x  | --d2p  | --d2m    |
-       | NIDX     | --n2c | --n2t | --n2j  | --n2l  | --n2d  |        | --n2x  | --n2p  | --n2m    |
-       | XTAB     | --x2c | --x2t | --x2j  | --x2l  | --x2d  | --x2n  |        | --x2p  | --x2m    |
-       | PPRINT   | --p2c | --p2t | --p2j  | --p2l  | --p2d  | --p2n  | --p2x  |        | --p2m    |
-       | Markdown | --m2c | --m2t | --m2j  | --m2l  | --m2d  | --m2n  | --m2x  | --m2p  |          |
+       | In\out   | CSV      | TSV      | JSON     | JSONL | DKVP  | NIDX  | XTAB  | PPRINT | Markdown |
+       +----------+----------+----------+----------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------+----------|
+       | CSV      | --c2c,-c | --c2t    | --c2j    | --c2l | --c2d | --c2n | --c2x | --c2p  | --c2m    |
+       | TSV      | --t2c    | --t2t,-t | --t2j    | --t2l | --t2d | --t2n | --t2x | --t2p  | --t2m    |
+       | JSON     | --j2c    | --j2t    | --j2j,-j | --j2l | --j2d | --j2n | --j2x | --j2p  | --j2m    |
+       | JSONL    | --l2c    | --l2t    | --l2j    | --l2l | --l2d | --l2n | --l2x | --l2p  | --l2m    |
+       | DKVP     | --d2c    | --d2t    | --d2j    | --d2l | --d2d | --d2n | --d2x | --d2p  | --d2m    |
+       | NIDX     | --n2c    | --n2t    | --n2j    | --n2l | --n2d | --n2n | --n2x | --n2p  | --n2m    |
+       | XTAB     | --x2c    | --x2t    | --x2j    | --x2l | --x2d | --x2n | --x2x | --x2p  | --x2m    |
+       | PPRINT   | --p2c    | --p2t    | --p2j    | --p2l | --p2d | --p2n | --p2x | -p2p   | --p2m    |
+       | Markdown | --m2c    | --m2t    | --m2j    | --m2l | --m2d | --m2n | --m2x | --m2p  |          |
 
        -p                       Keystroke-saver for `--nidx --fs space --repifs`.
        -T                       Keystroke-saver for `--nidx --fs tab`.
@@ -470,8 +484,8 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        --jvstack                Put one key-value pair per line for JSON output
                                 (multi-line output). This is the default for JSON
                                 output format.
-       --no-jlistwrap           Wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is the
-                                default for JSON Lines output format.
+       --no-jlistwrap           Do not wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is
+                                the default for JSON Lines output format.
        --no-jvstack             Put objects/arrays all on one line for JSON output.
                                 This is the default for JSON Lines output format.
 
@@ -646,8 +660,8 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        How you can control colorization:
 
        * Suppression/unsuppression:
-           * Environment variable `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` means don't color
-             even if stdout+TTY.
+           * Environment variable `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` or `export NO_COLOR=true`
+              means don't color even if stdout+TTY.
            * Environment variable `export MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR=true` means do color
              even if not stdout+TTY.
              For example, you might want to use this when piping mlr output to `less -r`.
@@ -766,13 +780,13 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
          - To avoid backslashing, you can use any of the following names:
 
                  ascii_esc  = "\x1b"
-                 ascii_etx  = "\x04"
+                 ascii_etx  = "\x03"
                  ascii_fs   = "\x1c"
                  ascii_gs   = "\x1d"
-                 ascii_null = "\x01"
+                 ascii_null = "\x00"
                  ascii_rs   = "\x1e"
-                 ascii_soh  = "\x02"
-                 ascii_stx  = "\x03"
+                 ascii_soh  = "\x01"
+                 ascii_stx  = "\x02"
                  ascii_us   = "\x1f"
                  asv_fs     = "\x1f"
                  asv_rs     = "\x1e"
@@ -806,11 +820,12 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
                csv      ","    N/A    "\n"
                csvlite  ","    N/A    "\n"
                dkvp     ","    "="    "\n"
+               gen      ","    N/A    "\n"
                json     N/A    N/A    N/A
                markdown " "    N/A    "\n"
                nidx     " "    N/A    "\n"
                pprint   " "    N/A    "\n"
-               tsv      "  "    N/A    "\n"
+               tsv      "     "    N/A    "\n"
                xtab     "\n"   " "    "\n\n"
 
        --fs {string}            Specify FS for input and output.
@@ -1030,7 +1045,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
         -r Treat field names as regular expressions. "ab", "a.*b" will
           match any field name containing the substring "ab" or matching
           "a.*b", respectively; anchors of the form "^ab$", "^a.*b$" may
-          be used. The -o flag is ignored when -r is present.
+          be used.
        -h|--help Show this message.
        Examples:
          mlr cut -f hostname,status
@@ -1074,6 +1089,10 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
 
    1mfilter0m
        Usage: mlr filter [options] {DSL expression}
+       Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically filter which
+       stream records will be output.
+       See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs
+
        Options:
        -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
           is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded.
@@ -1268,6 +1287,8 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        See also the `sub` and `ssub` verbs.
        Options:
        -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+       -r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+       -a          Convert all fields.
        -h|--help   Show this message.
 
    1mhaving-fields0m
@@ -1377,7 +1398,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        Likewise, if you have 'mlr --csv --implicit-csv-header ...' then the join-in file will be
        expected to be headerless as well unless you put '--no-implicit-csv-header' after 'join'.
        Please use "mlr --usage-separator-options" for information on specifying separators.
-       Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs.html#join for more information
+       Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs#join for more information
        including examples.
 
    1mlabel0m
@@ -1421,6 +1442,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
          antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie
          sum      Compute sums of specified fields
          mean     Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields
+         mad      Compute mean absolute deviation
          var      Compute sample variance of specified fields
          stddev   Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields
          meaneb   Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation)
@@ -1527,6 +1549,9 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
 
    1mput0m
        Usage: mlr put [options] {DSL expression}
+       Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically alter stream records.
+       See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs
+
        Options:
        -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
           is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded.
@@ -1633,9 +1658,9 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
                   first-match replacement.
        -h|--help Show this message.
        Examples:
-       mlr rename old_name,new_name'
-       mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2'
-       mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date,'  Rename all such fields to be "Date"
+       mlr rename old_name,new_name
+       mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2
+       mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date'  Rename all such fields to be "Date"
        mlr rename -r '"Date_[0-9]+",Date' Same
        mlr rename -r 'Date_([0-9]+).*,\1' Rename all such fields to be of the form 20151015
        mlr rename -r '"name"i,Name'       Rename "name", "Name", "NAME", etc. to "Name"
@@ -1825,6 +1850,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        -nf {comma-separated field names}  Same as -n
        -nr {comma-separated field names}  Numerical descending; nulls sort first
        -t  {comma-separated field names}  Natural ascending
+       -b                                 Move sort fields to start of record, as in reorder -b
        -tr|-rt {comma-separated field names}  Natural descending
        -h|--help Show this message.
 
@@ -1840,6 +1866,17 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        -r        Recursively sort subobjects/submaps, e.g. for JSON input.
        -h|--help Show this message.
 
+   1msparsify0m
+       Usage: mlr sparsify [options]
+       Unsets fields for which the key is the empty string (or, optionally, another
+       specified value). Only makes sense with output format not being CSV or TSV.
+       Options:
+       -s {filler string} What values to remove. Defaults to the empty string.
+       -f {a,b,c} Specify field names to be operated on; any other fields won't be
+                  modified. The default is to modify all fields.
+       -h|--help  Show this message.
+       Example: if input is a=1,b=,c=3 then output is a=1,c=3.
+
    1msplit0m
        Usage: mlr split [options] {filename}
        Options:
@@ -1888,6 +1925,8 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        the old string, like the `ssub` DSL function. See also the `gsub` and `sub` verbs.
        Options:
        -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+       -r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+       -a          Convert all fields.
        -h|--help   Show this message.
 
    1mstats10m
@@ -1905,6 +1944,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
          antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie
          sum      Compute sums of specified fields
          mean     Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields
+         mad      Compute mean absolute deviation
          var      Compute sample variance of specified fields
          stddev   Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields
          meaneb   Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation)
@@ -1939,7 +1979,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        Example: mlr stats1 -a min,p10,p50,p90,max -f value -g size,shape
        Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size
        Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size -g shape
-       Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' -gr '^k.*$'
+       Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' --gr '^k.*$'
                This computes count and mode statistics on all field names beginning
                 with a through h, grouped by all field names starting with k.
 
@@ -2034,6 +2074,8 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        See also the `gsub` and `ssub` verbs.
        Options:
        -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+       -r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+       -a          Convert all fields.
        -h|--help   Show this message.
 
    1msummary0m
@@ -2076,8 +2118,18 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        -a {mean,sum,etc.} Use only the specified summarizers.
        -x {mean,sum,etc.} Use all summarizers, except the specified ones.
        --all              Use all available summarizers.
+       --transpose        Show output with field names as column names..
        -h|--help Show this message.
 
+   1msurv0m
+       Usage: mlr surv -d {duration-field} -s {status-field}
+
+       Estimate Kaplan-Meier survival curve (right-censored).
+       Options:
+         -d {field}   Name of duration field (time-to-event or censoring).
+         -s {field}   Name of status field (0=censored, 1=event).
+         -h, --help   Show this message.
+
    1mtac0m
        Usage: mlr tac [options]
        Prints records in reverse order from the order in which they were encountered.
@@ -2407,9 +2459,14 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        $* = fmtifnum($*, "%.6f") formats numeric fields in the current record, leaving non-numeric ones alone
 
    1mfmtnum0m
-        (class=conversion #args=2) Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. This function recurses on array and map values.
-       Example:
-       $x = fmtnum($x, "%.6f")
+        (class=conversion #args=2) Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. Miller-specific extension: "%_d" and "%_f" for comma-separated thousands. This function recurses on array and map values.
+       Examples:
+       $y = fmtnum($x, "%.6f")
+       $o = fmtnum($n, "%d")
+       $o = fmtnum($n, "%12d")
+       $y = fmtnum($x, "%.6_f")
+       $o = fmtnum($n, "%_d")
+       $o = fmtnum($n, "%12_d")
 
    1mfold0m
         (class=higher-order-functions #args=3) Given a map or array as first argument and a function as second argument, accumulates entries into a final output -- for example, sum or product. For arrays, the function should take two arguments, for accumulated value and array element. For maps, it should take four arguments, for accumulated key and value, and map-element key and value; it should return the updated accumulator as a new key-value pair (i.e. a single-entry map). The start value for the accumulator is taken from the third argument.
@@ -2962,6 +3019,18 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        Example:
        ssub("abc.def", ".", "X") gives "abcXdef"
 
+   1mstat0m
+        (class=system #args=1) Returns a map containing information about the provided path: "name" with string value, "size" as decimal int value, "mode" as octal int value, "modtime" as int-valued epoch seconds, and "isdir" as boolean value.
+       Examples:
+       stat("./mlr") gives {
+         "name": "mlr",
+         "size": 38391584,
+         "mode": 0755,
+         "modtime": 1715207874,
+         "isdir": false
+       }
+       stat("./mlr")["size"] gives 38391584
+
    1mstddev0m
         (class=stats #args=1) Returns the sample standard deviation of values in an array or map. Returns empty string AKA void for array/map of length less than two; returns error for non-array/non-map types.
        Example:
@@ -3690,7 +3759,5 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files, the Miller docsite
        https://miller.readthedocs.io
 
-
-
-                                  2024-01-23                         MILLER(1)
+                                  2026-01-02                         4mMILLER24m(1)
 
diff --git a/docs/src/manpage.txt b/docs/src/manpage.txt index eee5e7837..90bff3293 100644 --- a/docs/src/manpage.txt +++ b/docs/src/manpage.txt @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@ -MILLER(1) MILLER(1) - - +4mMILLER24m(1) 4mMILLER24m(1) 1mNAME0m Miller -- like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such @@ -29,7 +27,7 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) insertion-ordered hash map. This encompasses a variety of data formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON. (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as a special case.) This - manpage documents mlr 6.11.0. + manpage documents mlr 6.16.0. 1mEXAMPLES0m mlr --icsv --opprint cat example.csv @@ -126,6 +124,7 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) mlr help comments-in-data-flags mlr help compressed-data-flags mlr help csv/tsv-only-flags + mlr help dkvp-only-flags mlr help file-format-flags mlr help flatten-unflatten-flags mlr help format-conversion-keystroke-saver-flags @@ -178,9 +177,9 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) json-parse json-stringify join label latin1-to-utf8 least-frequent merge-fields most-frequent nest nothing put regularize remove-empty-columns rename reorder repeat reshape sample sec2gmtdate sec2gmt seqgen shuffle - skip-trivial-records sort sort-within-records split ssub stats1 stats2 step - sub summary tac tail tee template top utf8-to-latin1 unflatten uniq unspace - unsparsify + skip-trivial-records sort sort-within-records sparsify split ssub stats1 + stats2 step sub summary surv tac tail tee template top utf8-to-latin1 + unflatten uniq unspace unsparsify 1mFUNCTION LIST0m abs acos acosh antimode any append apply arrayify asin asinh asserting_absent @@ -204,7 +203,7 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) percentiles pow qnorm reduce regextract regextract_or_else rightpad round roundm rstrip sec2dhms sec2gmt sec2gmtdate sec2hms sec2localdate sec2localtime select sgn sha1 sha256 sha512 sin sinh skewness sort sort_collection splita - splitax splitkv splitkvx splitnv splitnvx sqrt ssub stddev strfntime + splitax splitkv splitkvx splitnv splitnvx sqrt ssub stat stddev strfntime strfntime_local strftime strftime_local string strip strlen strmatch strmatchx strpntime strpntime_local strptime strptime_local sub substr substr0 substr1 sum sum2 sum3 sum4 sysntime system systime systimeint tan tanh tolower toupper @@ -235,12 +234,14 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) within the input. --pass-comments-with {string} Immediately print commented lines within input, with - specified prefix. + specified prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix + must be a single character. --skip-comments Ignore commented lines (prefixed by `#`) within the input. --skip-comments-with {string} Ignore commented lines within input, with specified - prefix. + prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix must be a + single character. 1mCOMPRESSED-DATA FLAGS0m Miller offers a few different ways to handle reading data files @@ -319,6 +320,10 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) recreate missing headers. --lazy-quotes Accepts quotes appearing in unquoted fields, and non-doubled quotes appearing in quoted fields. + --no-auto-unsparsify For CSV/TSV output: if the record keys change from + one row to another, emit a blank line and a new + header line. This is non-compliant with RFC 4180 but + it helpful for heterogeneous data. --no-implicit-csv-header or --no-implicit-tsv-header Opposite of `--implicit-csv-header`. This is the default anyway -- the main use is for the flags to @@ -333,6 +338,16 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) -N Keystroke-saver for `--implicit-csv-header --headerless-csv-output`. +1mDKVP-ONLY FLAGS0m + These are flags which are applicable to DKVP format. + + --incr-key Without this option, keyless DKVP fields are keyed by + field number. For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50` is + ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$3=30,$d=40,$5=50`. With + this option, they're keyed by a running counter of + keyless fields. For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50` + is ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$1=30,$d=40,$2=50`. + 1mFILE-FORMAT FLAGS0m See the File formats doc page, and or `mlr help file-formats`, for more about file formats Miller supports. @@ -345,9 +360,9 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`. --asv or --asvlite Use ASV format for input and output data. - --csv or -c Use CSV format for input and output data. + --csv or -c or --c2c Use CSV format for input and output data. --csvlite Use CSV-lite format for input and output data. - --dkvp Use DKVP format for input and output data. + --dkvp or --d2d Use DKVP format for input and output data. --gen-field-name Specify field name for --igen. Defaults to "i". --gen-start Specify start value for --igen. Defaults to 1. --gen-step Specify step value for --igen. Defaults to 1. @@ -371,9 +386,9 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) --itsvlite Use TSV-lite format for input data. --iusv or --iusvlite Use USV format for input data. --ixtab Use XTAB format for input data. - --json or -j Use JSON format for input and output data. - --jsonl Use JSON Lines format for input and output data. - --nidx Use NIDX format for input and output data. + --json or -j or --j2j Use JSON format for input and output data. + --jsonl or --l2l Use JSON Lines format for input and output data. + --nidx or --n2n Use NIDX format for input and output data. --oasv or --oasvlite Use ASV format for output data. --ocsv Use CSV format for output data. --ocsvlite Use CSV-lite format for output data. @@ -387,11 +402,11 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) --otsvlite Use TSV-lite format for output data. --ousv or --ousvlite Use USV format for output data. --oxtab Use XTAB format for output data. - --pprint Use PPRINT format for input and output data. - --tsv or -t Use TSV format for input and output data. + --pprint or --p2p Use PPRINT format for input and output data. + --tsv or -t or --t2t Use TSV format for input and output data. --tsvlite Use TSV-lite format for input and output data. --usv or --usvlite Use USV format for input and output data. - --xtab Use XTAB format for input and output data. + --xtab or --x2x Use XTAB format for input and output data. --xvright Right-justify values for XTAB format. -i {format name} Use format name for input data. For example: `-i csv` is the same as `--icsv`. @@ -401,7 +416,7 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) 1mFLATTEN-UNFLATTEN FLAGS0m These flags control how Miller converts record values which are maps or arrays, when input is JSON and output is non-JSON (flattening) or input is non-JSON and output is JSON (unflattening). - See the Flatten/unflatten doc page for more information. + See the flatten/unflatten doc page https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/flatten-unflatten for more information. --flatsep or --jflatsep {string} Separator for flattening multi-level JSON keys, e.g. @@ -409,32 +424,31 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) formats. Defaults to `.`. --no-auto-flatten When output is non-JSON, suppress the default auto-flatten behavior. Default: if `$y = [7,8,9]` - then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9, and + then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9`, and similarly for maps. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get `$y=[1, 2, 3]`. - --no-auto-unflatten When input non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress the - default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the + --no-auto-unflatten When input is non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress + the default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the input has `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9` then this unflattens to - `$y=[7,8,9]`. flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9. With - `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get - `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`. + `$y=[7,8,9]`. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we + get `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`. 1mFORMAT-CONVERSION KEYSTROKE-SAVER FLAGS0m As keystroke-savers for format-conversion you may use the following. The letters c, t, j, l, d, n, x, p, and m refer to formats CSV, TSV, DKVP, NIDX, JSON, JSON Lines, XTAB, PPRINT, and markdown, respectively. - | In\out | CSV | TSV | JSON | JSONL | DKVP | NIDX | XTAB | PPRINT | Markdown | - +----------+-------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------| - | CSV | | --c2t | --c2j | --c2l | --c2d | --c2n | --c2x | --c2p | --c2m | - | TSV | --t2c | | --t2j | --t2l | --t2d | --t2n | --t2x | --t2p | --t2m | - | JSON | --j2c | --j2t | | --j2l | --j2d | --j2n | --j2x | --j2p | --j2m | - | JSONL | --l2c | --l2t | | | --l2d | --l2n | --l2x | --l2p | --l2m | - | DKVP | --d2c | --d2t | --d2j | --d2l | | --d2n | --d2x | --d2p | --d2m | - | NIDX | --n2c | --n2t | --n2j | --n2l | --n2d | | --n2x | --n2p | --n2m | - | XTAB | --x2c | --x2t | --x2j | --x2l | --x2d | --x2n | | --x2p | --x2m | - | PPRINT | --p2c | --p2t | --p2j | --p2l | --p2d | --p2n | --p2x | | --p2m | - | Markdown | --m2c | --m2t | --m2j | --m2l | --m2d | --m2n | --m2x | --m2p | | + | In\out | CSV | TSV | JSON | JSONL | DKVP | NIDX | XTAB | PPRINT | Markdown | + +----------+----------+----------+----------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------+----------| + | CSV | --c2c,-c | --c2t | --c2j | --c2l | --c2d | --c2n | --c2x | --c2p | --c2m | + | TSV | --t2c | --t2t,-t | --t2j | --t2l | --t2d | --t2n | --t2x | --t2p | --t2m | + | JSON | --j2c | --j2t | --j2j,-j | --j2l | --j2d | --j2n | --j2x | --j2p | --j2m | + | JSONL | --l2c | --l2t | --l2j | --l2l | --l2d | --l2n | --l2x | --l2p | --l2m | + | DKVP | --d2c | --d2t | --d2j | --d2l | --d2d | --d2n | --d2x | --d2p | --d2m | + | NIDX | --n2c | --n2t | --n2j | --n2l | --n2d | --n2n | --n2x | --n2p | --n2m | + | XTAB | --x2c | --x2t | --x2j | --x2l | --x2d | --x2n | --x2x | --x2p | --x2m | + | PPRINT | --p2c | --p2t | --p2j | --p2l | --p2d | --p2n | --p2x | -p2p | --p2m | + | Markdown | --m2c | --m2t | --m2j | --m2l | --m2d | --m2n | --m2x | --m2p | | -p Keystroke-saver for `--nidx --fs space --repifs`. -T Keystroke-saver for `--nidx --fs tab`. @@ -449,8 +463,8 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) --jvstack Put one key-value pair per line for JSON output (multi-line output). This is the default for JSON output format. - --no-jlistwrap Wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is the - default for JSON Lines output format. + --no-jlistwrap Do not wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is + the default for JSON Lines output format. --no-jvstack Put objects/arrays all on one line for JSON output. This is the default for JSON Lines output format. @@ -625,8 +639,8 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) How you can control colorization: * Suppression/unsuppression: - * Environment variable `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` means don't color - even if stdout+TTY. + * Environment variable `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` or `export NO_COLOR=true` + means don't color even if stdout+TTY. * Environment variable `export MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR=true` means do color even if not stdout+TTY. For example, you might want to use this when piping mlr output to `less -r`. @@ -745,13 +759,13 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) - To avoid backslashing, you can use any of the following names: ascii_esc = "\x1b" - ascii_etx = "\x04" + ascii_etx = "\x03" ascii_fs = "\x1c" ascii_gs = "\x1d" - ascii_null = "\x01" + ascii_null = "\x00" ascii_rs = "\x1e" - ascii_soh = "\x02" - ascii_stx = "\x03" + ascii_soh = "\x01" + ascii_stx = "\x02" ascii_us = "\x1f" asv_fs = "\x1f" asv_rs = "\x1e" @@ -785,11 +799,12 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) csv "," N/A "\n" csvlite "," N/A "\n" dkvp "," "=" "\n" + gen "," N/A "\n" json N/A N/A N/A markdown " " N/A "\n" nidx " " N/A "\n" pprint " " N/A "\n" - tsv " " N/A "\n" + tsv " " N/A "\n" xtab "\n" " " "\n\n" --fs {string} Specify FS for input and output. @@ -1009,7 +1024,7 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) -r Treat field names as regular expressions. "ab", "a.*b" will match any field name containing the substring "ab" or matching "a.*b", respectively; anchors of the form "^ab$", "^a.*b$" may - be used. The -o flag is ignored when -r is present. + be used. -h|--help Show this message. Examples: mlr cut -f hostname,status @@ -1053,6 +1068,10 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) 1mfilter0m Usage: mlr filter [options] {DSL expression} + Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically filter which + stream records will be output. + See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs + Options: -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded. @@ -1247,6 +1266,8 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) See also the `sub` and `ssub` verbs. Options: -f {a,b,c} Field names to convert. + -r {regex} Regular expression for field names to convert. + -a Convert all fields. -h|--help Show this message. 1mhaving-fields0m @@ -1356,7 +1377,7 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) Likewise, if you have 'mlr --csv --implicit-csv-header ...' then the join-in file will be expected to be headerless as well unless you put '--no-implicit-csv-header' after 'join'. Please use "mlr --usage-separator-options" for information on specifying separators. - Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs.html#join for more information + Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs#join for more information including examples. 1mlabel0m @@ -1400,6 +1421,7 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie sum Compute sums of specified fields mean Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields + mad Compute mean absolute deviation var Compute sample variance of specified fields stddev Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields meaneb Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation) @@ -1506,6 +1528,9 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) 1mput0m Usage: mlr put [options] {DSL expression} + Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically alter stream records. + See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs + Options: -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded. @@ -1612,9 +1637,9 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) first-match replacement. -h|--help Show this message. Examples: - mlr rename old_name,new_name' - mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2' - mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date,' Rename all such fields to be "Date" + mlr rename old_name,new_name + mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2 + mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date' Rename all such fields to be "Date" mlr rename -r '"Date_[0-9]+",Date' Same mlr rename -r 'Date_([0-9]+).*,\1' Rename all such fields to be of the form 20151015 mlr rename -r '"name"i,Name' Rename "name", "Name", "NAME", etc. to "Name" @@ -1804,6 +1829,7 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) -nf {comma-separated field names} Same as -n -nr {comma-separated field names} Numerical descending; nulls sort first -t {comma-separated field names} Natural ascending + -b Move sort fields to start of record, as in reorder -b -tr|-rt {comma-separated field names} Natural descending -h|--help Show this message. @@ -1819,6 +1845,17 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) -r Recursively sort subobjects/submaps, e.g. for JSON input. -h|--help Show this message. + 1msparsify0m + Usage: mlr sparsify [options] + Unsets fields for which the key is the empty string (or, optionally, another + specified value). Only makes sense with output format not being CSV or TSV. + Options: + -s {filler string} What values to remove. Defaults to the empty string. + -f {a,b,c} Specify field names to be operated on; any other fields won't be + modified. The default is to modify all fields. + -h|--help Show this message. + Example: if input is a=1,b=,c=3 then output is a=1,c=3. + 1msplit0m Usage: mlr split [options] {filename} Options: @@ -1867,6 +1904,8 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) the old string, like the `ssub` DSL function. See also the `gsub` and `sub` verbs. Options: -f {a,b,c} Field names to convert. + -r {regex} Regular expression for field names to convert. + -a Convert all fields. -h|--help Show this message. 1mstats10m @@ -1884,6 +1923,7 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie sum Compute sums of specified fields mean Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields + mad Compute mean absolute deviation var Compute sample variance of specified fields stddev Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields meaneb Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation) @@ -1918,7 +1958,7 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) Example: mlr stats1 -a min,p10,p50,p90,max -f value -g size,shape Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size -g shape - Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' -gr '^k.*$' + Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' --gr '^k.*$' This computes count and mode statistics on all field names beginning with a through h, grouped by all field names starting with k. @@ -2013,6 +2053,8 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) See also the `gsub` and `ssub` verbs. Options: -f {a,b,c} Field names to convert. + -r {regex} Regular expression for field names to convert. + -a Convert all fields. -h|--help Show this message. 1msummary0m @@ -2055,8 +2097,18 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) -a {mean,sum,etc.} Use only the specified summarizers. -x {mean,sum,etc.} Use all summarizers, except the specified ones. --all Use all available summarizers. + --transpose Show output with field names as column names.. -h|--help Show this message. + 1msurv0m + Usage: mlr surv -d {duration-field} -s {status-field} + + Estimate Kaplan-Meier survival curve (right-censored). + Options: + -d {field} Name of duration field (time-to-event or censoring). + -s {field} Name of status field (0=censored, 1=event). + -h, --help Show this message. + 1mtac0m Usage: mlr tac [options] Prints records in reverse order from the order in which they were encountered. @@ -2386,9 +2438,14 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) $* = fmtifnum($*, "%.6f") formats numeric fields in the current record, leaving non-numeric ones alone 1mfmtnum0m - (class=conversion #args=2) Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. This function recurses on array and map values. - Example: - $x = fmtnum($x, "%.6f") + (class=conversion #args=2) Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. Miller-specific extension: "%_d" and "%_f" for comma-separated thousands. This function recurses on array and map values. + Examples: + $y = fmtnum($x, "%.6f") + $o = fmtnum($n, "%d") + $o = fmtnum($n, "%12d") + $y = fmtnum($x, "%.6_f") + $o = fmtnum($n, "%_d") + $o = fmtnum($n, "%12_d") 1mfold0m (class=higher-order-functions #args=3) Given a map or array as first argument and a function as second argument, accumulates entries into a final output -- for example, sum or product. For arrays, the function should take two arguments, for accumulated value and array element. For maps, it should take four arguments, for accumulated key and value, and map-element key and value; it should return the updated accumulator as a new key-value pair (i.e. a single-entry map). The start value for the accumulator is taken from the third argument. @@ -2941,6 +2998,18 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) Example: ssub("abc.def", ".", "X") gives "abcXdef" + 1mstat0m + (class=system #args=1) Returns a map containing information about the provided path: "name" with string value, "size" as decimal int value, "mode" as octal int value, "modtime" as int-valued epoch seconds, and "isdir" as boolean value. + Examples: + stat("./mlr") gives { + "name": "mlr", + "size": 38391584, + "mode": 0755, + "modtime": 1715207874, + "isdir": false + } + stat("./mlr")["size"] gives 38391584 + 1mstddev0m (class=stats #args=1) Returns the sample standard deviation of values in an array or map. Returns empty string AKA void for array/map of length less than two; returns error for non-array/non-map types. Example: @@ -3669,6 +3738,4 @@ MILLER(1) MILLER(1) MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files, the Miller docsite https://miller.readthedocs.io - - - 2024-01-23 MILLER(1) + 2026-01-02 4mMILLER24m(1) diff --git a/docs/src/miller-as-library.md b/docs/src/miller-as-library.md index c17872ba0..3b09a4bbc 100644 --- a/docs/src/miller-as-library.md +++ b/docs/src/miller-as-library.md @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ package main import ( "fmt" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval" ) func main() { @@ -86,11 +86,11 @@ import ( "fmt" "os" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types" ) // Put your record-processing logic here. @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ func custom_options() *cli.TOptions { func run_custom_processor( fileNames []string, options *cli.TOptions, - record_processor func (irac *types.RecordAndContext) (*types.RecordAndContext, error), + record_processor func(irac *types.RecordAndContext) (*types.RecordAndContext, error), ) error { outputStream := os.Stdout outputIsStdout := true diff --git a/docs/src/miller-as-library/main1.go b/docs/src/miller-as-library/main1.go index c56f5a0db..68823b9f2 100644 --- a/docs/src/miller-as-library/main1.go +++ b/docs/src/miller-as-library/main1.go @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ package main import ( "fmt" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval" ) func main() { diff --git a/docs/src/miller-as-library/main2.go b/docs/src/miller-as-library/main2.go index c460a174a..8434f14bd 100644 --- a/docs/src/miller-as-library/main2.go +++ b/docs/src/miller-as-library/main2.go @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ import ( "fmt" "os" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types" ) // Put your record-processing logic here. @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func custom_options() *cli.TOptions { func run_custom_processor( fileNames []string, options *cli.TOptions, - record_processor func (irac *types.RecordAndContext) (*types.RecordAndContext, error), + record_processor func(irac *types.RecordAndContext) (*types.RecordAndContext, error), ) error { outputStream := os.Stdout outputIsStdout := true diff --git a/docs/src/miller-as-library/main3.go b/docs/src/miller-as-library/main3.go index 07d4be50e..617488c33 100644 --- a/docs/src/miller-as-library/main3.go +++ b/docs/src/miller-as-library/main3.go @@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ import ( "fmt" "os" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers" - "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers" + "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types" ) func convert_csv_to_json(fileNames []string) error { @@ -89,10 +89,10 @@ func convert_csv_to_json(fileNames []string) error { case ierr := <-inputErrorChannel: retval = ierr break - case _ = <-dataProcessingErrorChannel: + case <-dataProcessingErrorChannel: retval = errors.New("exiting due to data error") // details already printed break - case _ = <-doneWritingChannel: + case <-doneWritingChannel: done = true break } diff --git a/docs/src/miller-on-windows.md b/docs/src/miller-on-windows.md index b45ce5c43..8ffb6a44b 100644 --- a/docs/src/miller-on-windows.md +++ b/docs/src/miller-on-windows.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Quick links: ## Native builds as of Miller 6 -Miller was originally developed for Unix-like operating systems including Linux and MacOS. Since Miller 5.2.0 which was the first version to support Windows at all, that support has been partial. But as of version 6.0.0, Miller builds directly on Windows. +Miller was originally developed for Unix-like operating systems, including Linux and MacOS. Since Miller 5.2.0, which was the first version to support Windows at all, that support has been partial. But as of version 6.0.0, Miller builds directly on Windows. **The experience is now almost the same on Windows as it is on Linux, NetBSD/FreeBSD, and MacOS.** @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ See [Installation](installing-miller.md) for how to get a copy of `mlr.exe`. ## Setup -Simply place `mlr.exe` somewhere within your `PATH` variable. +Place `mlr.exe` somewhere within your `PATH` variable. ![pix/miller-windows.png](pix/miller-windows.png) @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ To use Miller from within MSYS2/Cygwin, also make sure `mlr.exe` is within the ` ## Differences -The Windows-support code within Miller makes effort to support Linux/Unix/MacOS-like command-line syntax including single-quoting of expressions for `mlr put` and `mlr filter` -- and in the examples above, this often works. However, there are still some cases where more complex expressions aren't successfully parsed from the Windows prompt, even though they are from MSYS2: +The Windows-support code within Miller makes an effort to support Linux/Unix/MacOS-like command-line syntax, including single-quoting of expressions for `mlr put` and `mlr filter` -- and in the examples above, this often works. However, there are still some cases where more complex expressions aren't successfully parsed from the Windows prompt, even though they are from MSYS2: ![pix/miller-windows-complex.png](pix/miller-windows-complex.png) diff --git a/docs/src/miller-on-windows.md.in b/docs/src/miller-on-windows.md.in index 1bd135d25..4b80ab7ae 100644 --- a/docs/src/miller-on-windows.md.in +++ b/docs/src/miller-on-windows.md.in @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ## Native builds as of Miller 6 -Miller was originally developed for Unix-like operating systems including Linux and MacOS. Since Miller 5.2.0 which was the first version to support Windows at all, that support has been partial. But as of version 6.0.0, Miller builds directly on Windows. +Miller was originally developed for Unix-like operating systems, including Linux and MacOS. Since Miller 5.2.0, which was the first version to support Windows at all, that support has been partial. But as of version 6.0.0, Miller builds directly on Windows. **The experience is now almost the same on Windows as it is on Linux, NetBSD/FreeBSD, and MacOS.** @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ See [Installation](installing-miller.md) for how to get a copy of `mlr.exe`. ## Setup -Simply place `mlr.exe` somewhere within your `PATH` variable. +Place `mlr.exe` somewhere within your `PATH` variable. ![pix/miller-windows.png](pix/miller-windows.png) @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ To use Miller from within MSYS2/Cygwin, also make sure `mlr.exe` is within the ` ## Differences -The Windows-support code within Miller makes effort to support Linux/Unix/MacOS-like command-line syntax including single-quoting of expressions for `mlr put` and `mlr filter` -- and in the examples above, this often works. However, there are still some cases where more complex expressions aren't successfully parsed from the Windows prompt, even though they are from MSYS2: +The Windows-support code within Miller makes an effort to support Linux/Unix/MacOS-like command-line syntax, including single-quoting of expressions for `mlr put` and `mlr filter` -- and in the examples above, this often works. However, there are still some cases where more complex expressions aren't successfully parsed from the Windows prompt, even though they are from MSYS2: ![pix/miller-windows-complex.png](pix/miller-windows-complex.png) diff --git a/docs/src/miller-programming-language.md b/docs/src/miller-programming-language.md index f8d2f027b..2b87c5106 100644 --- a/docs/src/miller-programming-language.md +++ b/docs/src/miller-programming-language.md @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ Quick links: # Intro to Miller's programming language -In the [Miller in 10 minutes](10min.md) page we took a tour of some of Miller's most-used [verbs](reference-verbs.md) including `cat`, `head`, `tail`, `cut`, and `sort`. These are analogs of familiar system commands, but empowered by field-name indexing and file-format awareness: the system `sort` command only knows about lines and column names like `1,2,3,4`, while `mlr sort` knows about CSV/TSV/JSON/etc records, and field names like `color,shape,flag,index`. +On the [Miller in 10 minutes](10min.md) page, we took a tour of some of Miller's most-used [verbs](reference-verbs.md), including `cat`, `head`, `tail`, `cut`, and `sort`. These are analogs of familiar system commands, but empowered by field-name indexing and file-format awareness: the system `sort` command only knows about lines and column names like `1,2,3,4`, while `mlr sort` knows about CSV/TSV/JSON/etc records, and field names like `color,shape,flag,index`. -We also caught a glimpse of Miller's `put` and `filter` verbs. These two are special since they let you express statements using Miller's programming language. It's a *embedded domain-specific language* since it's inside Miller: often referred to simply as the *Miller DSL*. +We also caught a glimpse of Miller's `put` and `filter` verbs. These two are special because they allow you to express statements using Miller's programming language. It's an *embedded domain-specific language* since it's inside Miller: often referred to simply as the *Miller DSL*. -In the [DSL reference](reference-dsl.md) page we have a complete reference to Miller's programming language. For now, let's take a quick look at key features -- you can use as few or as many features as you like. +On the [DSL reference](reference-dsl.md) page, we have a complete reference to Miller's programming language. For now, let's take a quick look at key features -- you can use as few or as many features as you like. ## Records and fields @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ purple square false 10 91 72.3735 8.2430 596.5747605000001 When we type that, a few things are happening: -* We refer to fields in the input data using a dollar sign and then the field name, e.g. `$quantity`. (If a field name contains special characters like a dot or slash, just use curly braces: `${field.name}`.) +* We refer to fields in the input data using a dollar sign and then the field name, e.g., `$quantity`. (If a field name contains special characters like a dot or slash, just use curly braces: `${field.name}`.) * The expression `$cost = $quantity * $rate` is executed once per record of the data file. Our [example.csv](./example.csv) has 10 records so this expression was executed 10 times, with the field names `$quantity` and `$rate` each time bound to the current record's values for those fields. -* On the left-hand side we have the new field name `$cost` which didn't come from the input data. Assignments to new variables result in a new field being placed after all the other ones. If we'd assigned to an existing field name, it would have been updated in-place. +* On the left-hand side, we have the new field name `$cost`, which didn't come from the input data. Assignments to new variables result in a new field being placed after all the other ones. If we'd assigned to an existing field name, it would have been updated in place. * The entire expression is surrounded by single quotes (with an adjustment needed on [Windows](miller-on-windows.md)), to get it past the system shell. Inside those, only double quotes have meaning in Miller's programming language. ## Multi-line statements, and statements-from-file @@ -91,9 +91,9 @@ yellow circle true 9 8700 63.5058 8.3350 529.3208430000001 purple square false 10 9100 72.3735 8.2430 596.5747605000001
-Anything from a `#` character to end of line is a code comment. +Anything from a `#` character to the end of the line is a code comment. -One of Miller's key features is the ability to express data-transformation right there at the keyboard, interactively. But if you find yourself using expressions repeatedly, you can put everything between the single quotes into a file and refer to that using `put -f`: +One of Miller's key features is the ability to express data transformation right there at the keyboard, interactively. But if you find yourself using expressions repeatedly, you can put everything between the single quotes into a file and refer to that using `put -f`:
 cat dsl-example.mlr
@@ -120,13 +120,13 @@ yellow circle   true  9  8700  63.5058  8.3350 529.3208430000001
 purple square   false 10 9100  72.3735  8.2430 596.5747605000001
 
-This becomes particularly important on Windows. Quite a bit of effort was put into making Miller on Windows be able to handle the kinds of single-quoted expressions we're showing here, but if you get syntax-error messages on Windows using examples in this documentation, you can put the parts between single quotes into a file and refer to that using `mlr put -f` -- or, use the triple-double-quote trick as described in the [Miller on Windows page](miller-on-windows.md). +This becomes particularly important on Windows. Quite a bit of effort was put into making Miller on Windows be able to handle the kinds of single-quoted expressions we're showing here. Still, if you get syntax-error messages on Windows using examples in this documentation, you can put the parts between single quotes into a file and refer to that using `mlr put -f` -- or, use the triple-double-quote trick as described in the [Miller on Windows page](miller-on-windows.md). ## Out-of-stream variables, begin, and end -Above we saw that your expression is executed once per record -- if a file has a million records, your expression will be executed a million times, once for each record. But you can mark statements to only be executed once, either before the record stream begins, or after the record stream is ended. If you know about [AWK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK), you might have noticed that Miller's programming language is loosely inspired by it, including the `begin` and `end` statements. +Above, we saw that your expression is executed once per record: if a file has a million records, your expression will be executed a million times, once for each record. But you can mark statements only to be executed once, either before the record stream begins or after the record stream is ended. If you know about [AWK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK), you might have noticed that Miller's programming language is loosely inspired by it, including the `begin` and `end` statements. -Above we also saw that names like `$quantity` are bound to each record in turn. +Above, we also saw that names like `$quantity` are bound to each record in turn. To make `begin` and `end` statements useful, we need somewhere to put things that persist across the duration of the record stream, and a way to emit them. Miller uses [**out-of-stream variables**](reference-dsl-variables.md#out-of-stream-variables) (or **oosvars** for short) whose names start with an `@` sigil, along with the [`emit`](reference-dsl-output-statements.md#emit-statements) keyword to write them into the output record stream: @@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ So, take this sum/count example as an indication of the kinds of things you can Also inspired by [AWK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK), the Miller DSL has the following special [**context variables**](reference-dsl-variables.md#built-in-variables): * `FILENAME` -- the filename the current record came from. Especially useful in things like `mlr ... *.csv`. -* `FILENUM` -- similarly, but integer 1,2,3,... rather than filenam.e -* `NF` -- the number of fields in the current record. Note that if you assign `$newcolumn = some value` then `NF` will increment. +* `FILENUM` -- similarly, but integer 1,2,3,... rather than filename. +* `NF` -- the number of fields in the current record. Note that if you assign `$newcolumn = some value`, then `NF` will increment. * `NR` -- starting from 1, counter of how many records processed so far. * `FNR` -- similar, but resets to 1 at the start of each file. @@ -290,12 +290,12 @@ purple square false 10 91 72.3735 8.2430 3628800 Note that here we used the `-f` flag to `put` to load our function definition, and also the `-e` flag to add another statement on the command line. (We could have also put `$fact = factorial(NR)` inside -`factorial-example.mlr` but that would have made that file less flexible for our +`factorial-example.mlr`, but that would have made that file less flexible for our future use.) ## If-statements, loops, and local variables -Suppose you want to only compute sums conditionally -- you can use an `if` statement: +Suppose you want only to compute sums conditionally -- you can use an `if` statement:
 cat if-example.mlr
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ page](reference-dsl-control-structures.md#for-loops), Miller has a few kinds of
 for-loops. In addition to the usual 3-part `for (i = 0; i < 10; i += 1)` kind
 that many programming languages have, Miller also lets you loop over
 [maps](reference-main-maps.md) and [arrays](reference-main-arrays.md). We
-haven't encountered maps and arrays yet in this introduction, but for now it
+haven't encountered maps and arrays yet in this introduction, but for now, it
 suffices to know that `$*` is a special variable holding the current record as
 a map:
 
@@ -375,14 +375,14 @@ Here we used the local variables `k` and `v`. Now we've seen four kinds of varia
 * Local variables like `k`
 * Built-in context variables like `NF` and `NR`
 
-If you're curious about scope and extent of local variables, you can read more in the [section on variables](reference-dsl-variables.md).
+If you're curious about the scope and extent of local variables, you can read more in the [section on variables](reference-dsl-variables.md).
 
 ## Arithmetic
 
 Numbers in Miller's programming language are intended to operate with the principle of least surprise:
 
 * Internally, numbers are either 64-bit signed integers or double-precision floating-point.
-* Sums, differences, and products of integers are also integers (so `2*3=6` not `6.0`) -- unless the result of the operation would overflow a 64-bit signed integer in which case the result is automatically converted to float. (If you ever want integer-to-integer arithmetic, use `x .+ y`, `x .* y`, etc.)
+* Sums, differences, and products of integers are also integers (so `2*3=6` not `6.0`) -- unless the result of the operation would overflow a 64-bit signed integer, in which case the result is automatically converted to float. (If you ever want integer-to-integer arithmetic, use `x .+ y`, `x .* y`, etc.)
 * Quotients of integers are integers if the division is exact, else floating-point:  so `6/2=3` but `7/2=3.5`.
 
 You can read more about this in the [arithmetic reference](reference-main-arithmetic.md).
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ see more in the [null-data reference](reference-main-null-data.md) but the
 basic idea is:
 
 * Adding a number to absent gives the number back. This means you don't have to put `@sum = 0` in your `begin` blocks.
-* Any variable which has the absent value is not assigned. This means you don't have to check presence of things from one record to the next.
+* Any variable that has the absent value is not assigned. This means you don't have to check the presence of things from one record to the next.
 
 For example, you can sum up all the `$a` values across records without having to check whether they're present or not:
 
diff --git a/docs/src/miller-programming-language.md.in b/docs/src/miller-programming-language.md.in
index eb5702f3b..91b9499bf 100644
--- a/docs/src/miller-programming-language.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/miller-programming-language.md.in
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 # Intro to Miller's programming language
 
-In the [Miller in 10 minutes](10min.md) page we took a tour of some of Miller's most-used [verbs](reference-verbs.md) including `cat`, `head`, `tail`, `cut`, and `sort`. These are analogs of familiar system commands, but empowered by field-name indexing and file-format awareness: the system `sort` command only knows about lines and column names like `1,2,3,4`, while `mlr sort` knows about CSV/TSV/JSON/etc records, and field names like `color,shape,flag,index`.
+On the [Miller in 10 minutes](10min.md) page, we took a tour of some of Miller's most-used [verbs](reference-verbs.md), including `cat`, `head`, `tail`, `cut`, and `sort`. These are analogs of familiar system commands, but empowered by field-name indexing and file-format awareness: the system `sort` command only knows about lines and column names like `1,2,3,4`, while `mlr sort` knows about CSV/TSV/JSON/etc records, and field names like `color,shape,flag,index`.
 
-We also caught a glimpse of Miller's `put` and `filter` verbs. These two are special since they let you express statements using Miller's programming language. It's a *embedded domain-specific language* since it's inside Miller: often referred to simply as the *Miller DSL*.
+We also caught a glimpse of Miller's `put` and `filter` verbs. These two are special because they allow you to express statements using Miller's programming language. It's an *embedded domain-specific language* since it's inside Miller: often referred to simply as the *Miller DSL*.
 
-In the [DSL reference](reference-dsl.md) page we have a complete reference to Miller's programming language. For now, let's take a quick look at key features -- you can use as few or as many features as you like.
+On the [DSL reference](reference-dsl.md) page, we have a complete reference to Miller's programming language. For now, let's take a quick look at key features -- you can use as few or as many features as you like.
 
 ## Records and fields
 
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 When we type that, a few things are happening:
 
-* We refer to fields in the input data using a dollar sign and then the field name, e.g. `$quantity`. (If a field name contains special characters like a dot or slash, just use curly braces: `${field.name}`.)
+* We refer to fields in the input data using a dollar sign and then the field name, e.g., `$quantity`. (If a field name contains special characters like a dot or slash, just use curly braces: `${field.name}`.)
 * The expression `$cost = $quantity * $rate` is executed once per record of the data file. Our [example.csv](./example.csv) has 10 records so this expression was executed 10 times, with the field names `$quantity` and `$rate` each time bound to the current record's values for those fields.
-* On the left-hand side we have the new field name `$cost` which didn't come from the input data. Assignments to new variables result in a new field being placed after all the other ones. If we'd assigned to an existing field name, it would have been updated in-place.
+* On the left-hand side, we have the new field name `$cost`, which didn't come from the input data. Assignments to new variables result in a new field being placed after all the other ones. If we'd assigned to an existing field name, it would have been updated in place.
 * The entire expression is surrounded by single quotes (with an adjustment needed on [Windows](miller-on-windows.md)), to get it past the system shell. Inside those, only double quotes have meaning in Miller's programming language.
 
 ## Multi-line statements, and statements-from-file
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ mlr --c2p put '
 ' example.csv
 GENMD-EOF
 
-Anything from a `#` character to end of line is a code comment.
+Anything from a `#` character to the end of the line is a code comment.
 
-One of Miller's key features is the ability to express data-transformation right there at the keyboard, interactively. But if you find yourself using expressions repeatedly, you can put everything between the single quotes into a file and refer to that using `put -f`:
+One of Miller's key features is the ability to express data transformation right there at the keyboard, interactively. But if you find yourself using expressions repeatedly, you can put everything between the single quotes into a file and refer to that using `put -f`:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 cat dsl-example.mlr
@@ -48,13 +48,13 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --c2p put -f dsl-example.mlr example.csv
 GENMD-EOF
 
-This becomes particularly important on Windows. Quite a bit of effort was put into making Miller on Windows be able to handle the kinds of single-quoted expressions we're showing here, but if you get syntax-error messages on Windows using examples in this documentation, you can put the parts between single quotes into a file and refer to that using `mlr put -f` -- or, use the triple-double-quote trick as described in the [Miller on Windows page](miller-on-windows.md).
+This becomes particularly important on Windows. Quite a bit of effort was put into making Miller on Windows be able to handle the kinds of single-quoted expressions we're showing here. Still, if you get syntax-error messages on Windows using examples in this documentation, you can put the parts between single quotes into a file and refer to that using `mlr put -f` -- or, use the triple-double-quote trick as described in the [Miller on Windows page](miller-on-windows.md).
 
 ## Out-of-stream variables, begin, and end
 
-Above we saw that your expression is executed once per record -- if a file has a million records, your expression will be executed a million times, once for each record. But you can mark statements to only be executed once, either before the record stream begins, or after the record stream is ended. If you know about [AWK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK), you might have noticed that Miller's programming language is loosely inspired by it, including the `begin` and `end` statements.
+Above, we saw that your expression is executed once per record: if a file has a million records, your expression will be executed a million times, once for each record. But you can mark statements only to be executed once, either before the record stream begins or after the record stream is ended. If you know about [AWK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK), you might have noticed that Miller's programming language is loosely inspired by it, including the `begin` and `end` statements.
 
-Above we also saw that names like `$quantity` are bound to each record in turn.
+Above, we also saw that names like `$quantity` are bound to each record in turn.
 
 To make `begin` and `end` statements useful, we need somewhere to put things that persist across the duration of the record stream, and a way to emit them. Miller uses [**out-of-stream variables**](reference-dsl-variables.md#out-of-stream-variables) (or **oosvars** for short) whose names start with an `@` sigil, along with the [`emit`](reference-dsl-output-statements.md#emit-statements) keyword to write them into the output record stream:
 
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ So, take this sum/count example as an indication of the kinds of things you can
 Also inspired by [AWK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWK), the Miller DSL has the following special [**context variables**](reference-dsl-variables.md#built-in-variables):
 
 * `FILENAME` -- the filename the current record came from. Especially useful in things like `mlr ... *.csv`.
-* `FILENUM` -- similarly, but integer 1,2,3,... rather than filenam.e
-* `NF` -- the number of fields in the current record. Note that if you assign `$newcolumn = some value` then `NF` will increment.
+* `FILENUM` -- similarly, but integer 1,2,3,... rather than filename.
+* `NF` -- the number of fields in the current record. Note that if you assign `$newcolumn = some value`, then `NF` will increment.
 * `NR` -- starting from 1, counter of how many records processed so far.
 * `FNR` -- similar, but resets to 1 at the start of each file.
 
@@ -130,12 +130,12 @@ GENMD-EOF
 Note that here we used the `-f` flag to `put` to load our function
 definition, and also the `-e` flag to add another statement on the command
 line. (We could have also put `$fact = factorial(NR)` inside
-`factorial-example.mlr` but that would have made that file less flexible for our
+`factorial-example.mlr`, but that would have made that file less flexible for our
 future use.)
 
 ## If-statements, loops, and local variables
 
-Suppose you want to only compute sums conditionally -- you can use an `if` statement:
+Suppose you want only to compute sums conditionally -- you can use an `if` statement:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 cat if-example.mlr
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ page](reference-dsl-control-structures.md#for-loops), Miller has a few kinds of
 for-loops. In addition to the usual 3-part `for (i = 0; i < 10; i += 1)` kind
 that many programming languages have, Miller also lets you loop over
 [maps](reference-main-maps.md) and [arrays](reference-main-arrays.md). We
-haven't encountered maps and arrays yet in this introduction, but for now it
+haven't encountered maps and arrays yet in this introduction, but for now, it
 suffices to know that `$*` is a special variable holding the current record as
 a map:
 
@@ -175,14 +175,14 @@ Here we used the local variables `k` and `v`. Now we've seen four kinds of varia
 * Local variables like `k`
 * Built-in context variables like `NF` and `NR`
 
-If you're curious about scope and extent of local variables, you can read more in the [section on variables](reference-dsl-variables.md).
+If you're curious about the scope and extent of local variables, you can read more in the [section on variables](reference-dsl-variables.md).
 
 ## Arithmetic
 
 Numbers in Miller's programming language are intended to operate with the principle of least surprise:
 
 * Internally, numbers are either 64-bit signed integers or double-precision floating-point.
-* Sums, differences, and products of integers are also integers (so `2*3=6` not `6.0`) -- unless the result of the operation would overflow a 64-bit signed integer in which case the result is automatically converted to float. (If you ever want integer-to-integer arithmetic, use `x .+ y`, `x .* y`, etc.)
+* Sums, differences, and products of integers are also integers (so `2*3=6` not `6.0`) -- unless the result of the operation would overflow a 64-bit signed integer, in which case the result is automatically converted to float. (If you ever want integer-to-integer arithmetic, use `x .+ y`, `x .* y`, etc.)
 * Quotients of integers are integers if the division is exact, else floating-point:  so `6/2=3` but `7/2=3.5`.
 
 You can read more about this in the [arithmetic reference](reference-main-arithmetic.md).
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ see more in the [null-data reference](reference-main-null-data.md) but the
 basic idea is:
 
 * Adding a number to absent gives the number back. This means you don't have to put `@sum = 0` in your `begin` blocks.
-* Any variable which has the absent value is not assigned. This means you don't have to check presence of things from one record to the next.
+* Any variable that has the absent value is not assigned. This means you don't have to check the presence of things from one record to the next.
 
 For example, you can sum up all the `$a` values across records without having to check whether they're present or not:
 
diff --git a/docs/src/mlr.1 b/docs/src/mlr.1
index 0a026dd4f..5aa5bd16f 100644
--- a/docs/src/mlr.1
+++ b/docs/src/mlr.1
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ Passes through input records with specified fields included/excluded.
 -r               Treat field names as regular expressions. "ab", "a.*b" will
                  match any field name containing the substring "ab" or matching
                  "a.*b", respectively; anchors of the form "^ab$", "^a.*b$" may
-                 be used. The -o flag is ignored when -r is present.
+                 be used.
 Examples:
   mlr cut -f hostname,status
   mlr cut -x -f hostname,status
diff --git a/docs/src/new-in-miller-6.md b/docs/src/new-in-miller-6.md
index 32633b6f8..86a52a40d 100644
--- a/docs/src/new-in-miller-6.md
+++ b/docs/src/new-in-miller-6.md
@@ -24,43 +24,23 @@ TL;DRs: [install](installing-miller.md), [binaries](https://github.com/johnkerl/
 
 ### Performance
 
-Performance is on par with Miller 5 for simple processing, and is far better than Miller 5 for
-complex processing chains -- the latter due to improved multicore utilization. CSV I/O is notably
-improved.  See the [Performance benchmarks](#performance-benchmarks) section at the bottom of this
-page for details.
+Performance is on par with Miller 5 for simple processing, and is far better than Miller 5 for complex processing chains -- the latter due to improved multicore utilization. CSV I/O is notably improved.  See the [Performance benchmarks](#performance-benchmarks) section at the bottom of this page for details.
 
 ### Documentation improvements
 
 Documentation (what you're reading here) and online help (`mlr --help`) have been completely reworked.
 
-In the initial release, the focus was convincing users already familiar with
-`awk`/`grep`/`cut` that Miller was a viable alternative -- but over time it's
-become clear that many Miller users aren't expert with those tools. The focus
-has shifted toward a higher quantity of more introductory/accessible material
-for command-line data processing.
+In the initial release, the focus was on convincing users already familiar with `awk`, `grep`, and `cut` that Miller was a viable alternative; however, over time, it has become clear that many Miller users aren't experts with those tools. The focus has shifted toward a higher quantity of more introductory/accessible material for command-line data processing.
 
-Similarly, the FAQ/recipe material has been expanded to include more, and
-simpler, use-cases including resolved questions from
-[Miller Issues](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues)
-and
-[Miller Discussions](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/discussions);
-more complex/niche material has been pushed farther down. The long reference
-pages have been split up into separate pages. (See also
-[Structure of these documents](structure-of-these-documents.md).)
+Similarly, the FAQ/recipe material has been expanded to include more, and simpler, use-cases, including resolved questions from [Miller Issues](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues) and [Miller Discussions](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/discussions); more complex/niche material has been pushed farther down. The lengthy reference pages have been divided into separate pages. (See also [Structure of these documents](structure-of-these-documents.md).)
 
-One of the main feedback themes from the 2021 Miller User Survey was that some
-things should be easier to find. Namely, on each doc page there's now a banner
-across the top with things that should be one click away from the landing page
-(or any page): command-line flags, verbs, functions, glossary/acronyms, and a
-finder for docs by release.
+One of the main feedback themes from the 2021 Miller User Survey was that some things should be easier to find. Namely, on each doc page, there's now a banner across the top with things that should be one click away from the landing page (or any page): command-line flags, verbs, functions, glossary/acronyms, and a finder for docs by release.
 
-Since CSV is overwhelmingly the most popular data format for Miller, it is
-now discussed first, and more examples use CSV.
+Since CSV is overwhelmingly the most popular data format for Miller, it is now discussed first, and more examples use CSV.
 
 ### Improved Windows experience
 
-Stronger support for Windows (with or without MSYS2), with a couple of
-exceptions.  See [Miller on Windows](miller-on-windows.md) for more information.
+Stronger support for Windows (with or without MSYS2), with a couple of exceptions.  See [Miller on Windows](miller-on-windows.md) for more information.
 
 Binaries are reliably available using GitHub Actions: see also [Installation](installing-miller.md).
 
@@ -89,9 +69,7 @@ Parse error on token ">" at line 63 column 7.
 
 ### Scripting
 
-Scripting is now easier -- support for `#!` with `sh`, as always, along with now support for `#!` with `mlr -s`. For
-Windows, `mlr -s` can also be used.  These help reduce backslash-clutter and let you do more while typing less.
-See the [scripting page](scripting.md).
+Scripting is now easier -- support for `#!` with `sh`, as always, along with now support for `#!` with `mlr -s`. For Windows, `mlr -s` can also be used.  These help reduce backslash clutter and let you do more while typing less. See the [scripting page](scripting.md).
 
 ### REPL
 
@@ -143,7 +121,7 @@ the `TZ` environment variable. Please see [DSL datetime/timezone functions](refe
 
 ### In-process support for compressed input
 
-In addition to `--prepipe gunzip`, you can now use the `--gzin` flag. In fact, if your files end in `.gz` you don't even need to do that -- Miller will autodetect by file extension and automatically uncompress `mlr --csv cat foo.csv.gz`. Similarly for `.z`, `.bz2`, and `.zst` files.  Please see the page on [Compressed data](reference-main-compressed-data.md) for more information.
+In addition to `--prepipe gunzip`, you can now use the `--gzin` flag. In fact, if your files end in `.gz` you don't even need to do that -- Miller will autodetect by file extension and automatically uncompress `mlr --csv cat foo.csv.gz`. Similarly, for `.z`, `.bz2`, and `.zst` files.  Please refer to the page on [Compressed Data](reference-main-compressed-data.md) for more information.
 
 ### Support for reading web URLs
 
@@ -171,9 +149,7 @@ purple,triangle,false,7,65,80.1405,5.8240
 
 ### Improved JSON / JSON Lines support, and arrays
 
-Arrays are now supported in Miller's `put`/`filter` programming language, as
-described in the [Arrays reference](reference-main-arrays.md). (Also, `array` is
-now a keyword so this is no longer usable as a local-variable or UDF name.)
+Arrays are now supported in Miller's `put`/`filter` programming language, as described in the [Arrays reference](reference-main-arrays.md). (Also, `array` is now a keyword, so this is no longer usable as a local variable or UDF name.)
 
 JSON support is improved:
 
@@ -196,24 +172,13 @@ See also the [Arrays reference](reference-main-arrays.md) for more information.
 
 ### Improved numeric conversion
 
-The most central part of Miller 6 is a deep refactor of how data values are parsed
-from file contents, how types are inferred, and how they're converted back to
-text into output files.
+The most central part of Miller 6 is a deep refactor of how data values are parsed from file contents, how types are inferred, and how they're converted back to text into output files.
 
 This was all initiated by [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/151](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/151).
 
-In Miller 5 and below, all values were stored as strings, then only converted
-to int/float as-needed, for example when a particular field was referenced in
-the `stats1` or `put` verbs. This led to awkwardnesses such as the `-S`
-and `-F` flags for `put` and `filter`.
+In Miller 5 and below, all values were stored as strings, then only converted to int/float as needed, for example, when a particular field was referenced in the `stats1` or `put` verbs. This led to awkwardnesses such as the `-S` and `-F` flags for `put` and `filter`.
 
-In Miller 6, things parseable as int/float are treated as such from the moment
-the input data is read, and these are passed along through the verb chain.  All
-values are typed from when they're read, and their types are passed along.
-Meanwhile the original string representation of each value is also retained. If
-a numeric field isn't modified during the processing chain, it's printed out
-the way it arrived. Also, quoted values in JSON strings are flagged as being
-strings throughout the processing chain.
+In Miller 6, values parseable as integers or floating-point numbers are treated as such from the moment the input data is read, and these are passed along through the verb chain.  All values are typed from when they're read, and their types are passed along. Meanwhile, the original string representation of each value is also retained. If a numeric field isn't modified during the processing chain, it's printed out the way it arrived. Additionally, quoted values in JSON strings are consistently flagged as strings throughout the processing chain.
 
 For example (see [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/178](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/178)) you can now do
 
@@ -242,30 +207,21 @@ For example (see [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/178](https://github.
 
 ### Deduping of repeated field names
 
-By default, field names are deduped for all file formats except JSON / JSON Lines. So if you
-have an input record with `x=8,x=9` then the second field's key is renamed to
-`x_2` and so on -- the record scans as `x=8,x_2=9`. Use `mlr
---no-dedupe-field-names` to suppress this, and have the record be scanned as
-`x=9`.
+By default, field names are deduplicated for all file formats except JSON / JSON Lines. So if you have an input record with `x=8,x=9`, then the second field's key is renamed to `x_2` and so on -- the record scans as `x=8,x_2=9`. Use `mlr --no-dedupe-field-names` to suppress this, and have the record be scanned as `x=9`.
 
-For JSON and JSON Lines, the last duplicated key in an input record is always retained,
-regardless of `mlr --no-dedupe-field-names`: `{"x":8,"x":9}` scans as if it
-were `{"x":9}`.
+For JSON and JSON Lines, the last duplicated key in an input record is always retained, regardless of `mlr --no-dedupe-field-names`: `{"x":8,"x":9}` scans as if it were `{"x":9}`.
 
 ### Regex support for IFS and IPS
 
-You can now split fields on whitespace when whitespace is a mix of tabs and
-spaces.  As well, you can use regular expressions for the input field-separator
-and the input pair-separator.  Please see the section on
-[multi-character and regular-expression separators](reference-main-separators.md#multi-character-and-regular-expression-separators).
+You can now split fields on whitespace when whitespace is a mix of tabs and spaces.  As well, you can use regular expressions for the input field-separator and the input pair-separator.  Please see the section on [multi-character and regular-expression separators](reference-main-separators.md#multi-character-and-regular-expression-separators).
 
-In particular, for NIDX format, the default IFS now allows splitting on one or more of space or tab.
+In particular, for NIDX format, the default `IFS` now allows splitting on one or more of space or tab.
 
 ### Case-folded sorting options
 
-The [sort](reference-verbs.md#sort) verb now accepts `-c` and `-cr` options for case-folded ascending/descending sort, respetively.
+The [sort](reference-verbs.md#sort) verb now accepts `-c` and `-cr` options for case-folded ascending/descending sort, respectively.
 
-### New DSL functions / operators
+### New DSL functions and operators
 
 * Higher-order functions [`select`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#select), [`apply`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#apply), [`reduce`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#reduce), [`fold`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#fold), and [`sort`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#sort).  See the [sorting page](sorting.md) and the [higher-order-functions page](reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md) for more information.
 
@@ -293,30 +249,30 @@ The following differences are rather technical. If they don't sound familiar to
 
 ### Line endings
 
-The `--auto` flag is now ignored. Before, if a file had CR/LF (Windows-style) line endings on input (on any platform), it would have the same on output; likewise, LF (Unix-style) line endings. Now, files with CR/LF or LF line endings are processed on any platform, but the output line-ending is for the platform. E.g. reading CR/LF files on Linux will now produce LF output.
+The `--auto` flag is now ignored. Before, if a file had CR/LF (Windows-style) line endings on input (on any platform), it would have the same on output; likewise, LF (Unix-style) line endings. Now, files with CR/LF or LF line endings are processed on any platform, but the output line ending is for the platform. E.g., reading CR/LF files on Linux will now produce LF output.
 
 ### IFS and IPS as regular expressions
 
-IFS and IPS can be regular expressions now. Please see the section on [multi-character and regular-expression separators](reference-main-separators.md#multi-character-and-regular-expression-separators).
+IFS and IPS can now be regular expressions. Please see the section on [multi-character and regular-expression separators](reference-main-separators.md#multi-character-and-regular-expression-separators).
 
 ### JSON and JSON Lines formatting
 
 * `--jknquoteint` and `jquoteall` are ignored; they were workarounds for the (now much-improved) type-inference and type-tracking in Miller 6.
 * `--json-fatal-arrays-on-input`, `--json-map-arrays-on-input`, and `--json-skip-arrays-on-input` are ignored; Miller 6 now supports arrays fully.
 * See also `mlr help legacy-flags` or the [legacy-flags reference](reference-main-flag-list.md#legacy-flags).
-* Miller 5 accepted input records either with or without enclosing `[...]`; on output, by default it produced single-line records without outermost `[...]`.  Miller 5 let you customize output formatting using `--jvstack` (multi-line records) and `--jlistwrap` (write outermost `[...]`). _Thus, Miller 5's JSON output format, with default flags, was in fact [JSON Lines](file-formats.md#json-lines) all along._
+* Miller 5 accepted input records either with or without enclosing `[...]`; on output, by default, it produced single-line records without outermost `[...]`.  Miller 5 lets you customize output formatting using `--jvstack` (multi-line records) and `--jlistwrap` (write outermost `[...]`). _Thus, Miller 5's JSON output format, with default flags, was in fact [JSON Lines](file-formats.md#json-lines) all along._
 * In Miller 6, [JSON Lines](file-formats.md#json-lines) is acknowledged explicitly.
 * On input, your records are accepted whether or not they have outermost `[...]`, and regardless of line breaks, whether the specified input format is JSON or JSON Lines. (This is similar to [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/).)
 * With `--ojson`, output records are written multiline (pretty-printed), with outermost `[...]`.
 * With `--ojsonl`, output records are written single-line, without outermost `[...]`.
 * This makes `--jvstack` and `--jlistwrap` unnecessary. However, if you want outermost `[...]` with single-line records, you can use `--ojson --no-jvstack`.
-* Miller 5 tolerated trailing commas, which are not compliant with the JSON specification: for example, `{"x":1,"y":2,}`. Miller 6 uses a JSON parser which is compliant with the JSON specification and does not accept trailing commas.
+* Miller 5 tolerated trailing commas, which are not compliant with the JSON specification: for example, `{"x":1,"y":2,}`. Miller 6 uses a JSON parser that is compliant with the JSON specification and does not accept trailing commas.
 
 ### Type-inference
 
 * The `-S` and `-F` flags to `mlr put` and `mlr filter` are ignored, since type-inference is no longer done in `mlr put` and `mlr filter`, but rather, when records are first read. You can use `mlr -S` and `mlr -A`, respectively, instead to control type-inference within the record-readers.
 * Octal numbers like `0123` and `07` are type-inferred as string. Use `mlr -O` to infer them as octal integers. Note that `08` and `09` will then infer as decimal integers.
-* Any numbers prefix with `0o`, e.g. `0o377`, are already treated as octal regardless of `mlr -O` -- `mlr -O` only affects how leading-zero integers are handled.
+* Any numbers prefixed with `0o`, e.g. `0o377`, are already treated as octal, regardless of `mlr -O` -- `mlr -O` only affects how leading-zero integers are handled.
 * See also the [miscellaneous-flags reference](reference-main-flag-list.md#miscellaneous-flags).
 
 ### Emit statements
@@ -341,13 +297,12 @@ This works in Miller 6 (and worked in Miller 5 as well) and is supported:
 input=1
 
-Please see the [section on emit statements](reference-dsl-output-statements.md#emit1-and-emitemitpemitf) -for more information. +Please see the [section on emit statements](reference-dsl-output-statements.md#emit1-and-emitemitpemitf) for more information. ## Developer-specific aspects * Miller has been ported from C to Go. Developer notes: [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/README-dev.md](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/README-dev.md). -* Regression testing has been completely reworked, including regression-testing now running fully on Windows (alongside Linux and Mac) [on each GitHub commit](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions). +* Regression testing has been completely reworked, including regression-testing now running fully on Windows (alongside Linux and Mac) [on each github.commit](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions). ## Performance benchmarks diff --git a/docs/src/new-in-miller-6.md.in b/docs/src/new-in-miller-6.md.in index c450a9622..2da9d3feb 100644 --- a/docs/src/new-in-miller-6.md.in +++ b/docs/src/new-in-miller-6.md.in @@ -8,43 +8,23 @@ TL;DRs: [install](installing-miller.md), [binaries](https://github.com/johnkerl/ ### Performance -Performance is on par with Miller 5 for simple processing, and is far better than Miller 5 for -complex processing chains -- the latter due to improved multicore utilization. CSV I/O is notably -improved. See the [Performance benchmarks](#performance-benchmarks) section at the bottom of this -page for details. +Performance is on par with Miller 5 for simple processing, and is far better than Miller 5 for complex processing chains -- the latter due to improved multicore utilization. CSV I/O is notably improved. See the [Performance benchmarks](#performance-benchmarks) section at the bottom of this page for details. ### Documentation improvements Documentation (what you're reading here) and online help (`mlr --help`) have been completely reworked. -In the initial release, the focus was convincing users already familiar with -`awk`/`grep`/`cut` that Miller was a viable alternative -- but over time it's -become clear that many Miller users aren't expert with those tools. The focus -has shifted toward a higher quantity of more introductory/accessible material -for command-line data processing. +In the initial release, the focus was on convincing users already familiar with `awk`, `grep`, and `cut` that Miller was a viable alternative; however, over time, it has become clear that many Miller users aren't experts with those tools. The focus has shifted toward a higher quantity of more introductory/accessible material for command-line data processing. -Similarly, the FAQ/recipe material has been expanded to include more, and -simpler, use-cases including resolved questions from -[Miller Issues](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues) -and -[Miller Discussions](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/discussions); -more complex/niche material has been pushed farther down. The long reference -pages have been split up into separate pages. (See also -[Structure of these documents](structure-of-these-documents.md).) +Similarly, the FAQ/recipe material has been expanded to include more, and simpler, use-cases, including resolved questions from [Miller Issues](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues) and [Miller Discussions](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/discussions); more complex/niche material has been pushed farther down. The lengthy reference pages have been divided into separate pages. (See also [Structure of these documents](structure-of-these-documents.md).) -One of the main feedback themes from the 2021 Miller User Survey was that some -things should be easier to find. Namely, on each doc page there's now a banner -across the top with things that should be one click away from the landing page -(or any page): command-line flags, verbs, functions, glossary/acronyms, and a -finder for docs by release. +One of the main feedback themes from the 2021 Miller User Survey was that some things should be easier to find. Namely, on each doc page, there's now a banner across the top with things that should be one click away from the landing page (or any page): command-line flags, verbs, functions, glossary/acronyms, and a finder for docs by release. -Since CSV is overwhelmingly the most popular data format for Miller, it is -now discussed first, and more examples use CSV. +Since CSV is overwhelmingly the most popular data format for Miller, it is now discussed first, and more examples use CSV. ### Improved Windows experience -Stronger support for Windows (with or without MSYS2), with a couple of -exceptions. See [Miller on Windows](miller-on-windows.md) for more information. +Stronger support for Windows (with or without MSYS2), with a couple of exceptions. See [Miller on Windows](miller-on-windows.md) for more information. Binaries are reliably available using GitHub Actions: see also [Installation](installing-miller.md). @@ -73,9 +53,7 @@ GENMD-EOF ### Scripting -Scripting is now easier -- support for `#!` with `sh`, as always, along with now support for `#!` with `mlr -s`. For -Windows, `mlr -s` can also be used. These help reduce backslash-clutter and let you do more while typing less. -See the [scripting page](scripting.md). +Scripting is now easier -- support for `#!` with `sh`, as always, along with now support for `#!` with `mlr -s`. For Windows, `mlr -s` can also be used. These help reduce backslash clutter and let you do more while typing less. See the [scripting page](scripting.md). ### REPL @@ -125,7 +103,7 @@ the `TZ` environment variable. Please see [DSL datetime/timezone functions](refe ### In-process support for compressed input -In addition to `--prepipe gunzip`, you can now use the `--gzin` flag. In fact, if your files end in `.gz` you don't even need to do that -- Miller will autodetect by file extension and automatically uncompress `mlr --csv cat foo.csv.gz`. Similarly for `.z`, `.bz2`, and `.zst` files. Please see the page on [Compressed data](reference-main-compressed-data.md) for more information. +In addition to `--prepipe gunzip`, you can now use the `--gzin` flag. In fact, if your files end in `.gz` you don't even need to do that -- Miller will autodetect by file extension and automatically uncompress `mlr --csv cat foo.csv.gz`. Similarly, for `.z`, `.bz2`, and `.zst` files. Please refer to the page on [Compressed Data](reference-main-compressed-data.md) for more information. ### Support for reading web URLs @@ -140,9 +118,7 @@ GENMD-EOF ### Improved JSON / JSON Lines support, and arrays -Arrays are now supported in Miller's `put`/`filter` programming language, as -described in the [Arrays reference](reference-main-arrays.md). (Also, `array` is -now a keyword so this is no longer usable as a local-variable or UDF name.) +Arrays are now supported in Miller's `put`/`filter` programming language, as described in the [Arrays reference](reference-main-arrays.md). (Also, `array` is now a keyword, so this is no longer usable as a local variable or UDF name.) JSON support is improved: @@ -165,24 +141,13 @@ See also the [Arrays reference](reference-main-arrays.md) for more information. ### Improved numeric conversion -The most central part of Miller 6 is a deep refactor of how data values are parsed -from file contents, how types are inferred, and how they're converted back to -text into output files. +The most central part of Miller 6 is a deep refactor of how data values are parsed from file contents, how types are inferred, and how they're converted back to text into output files. This was all initiated by [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/151](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/151). -In Miller 5 and below, all values were stored as strings, then only converted -to int/float as-needed, for example when a particular field was referenced in -the `stats1` or `put` verbs. This led to awkwardnesses such as the `-S` -and `-F` flags for `put` and `filter`. +In Miller 5 and below, all values were stored as strings, then only converted to int/float as needed, for example, when a particular field was referenced in the `stats1` or `put` verbs. This led to awkwardnesses such as the `-S` and `-F` flags for `put` and `filter`. -In Miller 6, things parseable as int/float are treated as such from the moment -the input data is read, and these are passed along through the verb chain. All -values are typed from when they're read, and their types are passed along. -Meanwhile the original string representation of each value is also retained. If -a numeric field isn't modified during the processing chain, it's printed out -the way it arrived. Also, quoted values in JSON strings are flagged as being -strings throughout the processing chain. +In Miller 6, values parseable as integers or floating-point numbers are treated as such from the moment the input data is read, and these are passed along through the verb chain. All values are typed from when they're read, and their types are passed along. Meanwhile, the original string representation of each value is also retained. If a numeric field isn't modified during the processing chain, it's printed out the way it arrived. Additionally, quoted values in JSON strings are consistently flagged as strings throughout the processing chain. For example (see [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/178](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/178)) you can now do @@ -196,30 +161,21 @@ GENMD-EOF ### Deduping of repeated field names -By default, field names are deduped for all file formats except JSON / JSON Lines. So if you -have an input record with `x=8,x=9` then the second field's key is renamed to -`x_2` and so on -- the record scans as `x=8,x_2=9`. Use `mlr ---no-dedupe-field-names` to suppress this, and have the record be scanned as -`x=9`. +By default, field names are deduplicated for all file formats except JSON / JSON Lines. So if you have an input record with `x=8,x=9`, then the second field's key is renamed to `x_2` and so on -- the record scans as `x=8,x_2=9`. Use `mlr --no-dedupe-field-names` to suppress this, and have the record be scanned as `x=9`. -For JSON and JSON Lines, the last duplicated key in an input record is always retained, -regardless of `mlr --no-dedupe-field-names`: `{"x":8,"x":9}` scans as if it -were `{"x":9}`. +For JSON and JSON Lines, the last duplicated key in an input record is always retained, regardless of `mlr --no-dedupe-field-names`: `{"x":8,"x":9}` scans as if it were `{"x":9}`. ### Regex support for IFS and IPS -You can now split fields on whitespace when whitespace is a mix of tabs and -spaces. As well, you can use regular expressions for the input field-separator -and the input pair-separator. Please see the section on -[multi-character and regular-expression separators](reference-main-separators.md#multi-character-and-regular-expression-separators). +You can now split fields on whitespace when whitespace is a mix of tabs and spaces. As well, you can use regular expressions for the input field-separator and the input pair-separator. Please see the section on [multi-character and regular-expression separators](reference-main-separators.md#multi-character-and-regular-expression-separators). -In particular, for NIDX format, the default IFS now allows splitting on one or more of space or tab. +In particular, for NIDX format, the default `IFS` now allows splitting on one or more of space or tab. ### Case-folded sorting options -The [sort](reference-verbs.md#sort) verb now accepts `-c` and `-cr` options for case-folded ascending/descending sort, respetively. +The [sort](reference-verbs.md#sort) verb now accepts `-c` and `-cr` options for case-folded ascending/descending sort, respectively. -### New DSL functions / operators +### New DSL functions and operators * Higher-order functions [`select`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#select), [`apply`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#apply), [`reduce`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#reduce), [`fold`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#fold), and [`sort`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#sort). See the [sorting page](sorting.md) and the [higher-order-functions page](reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md) for more information. @@ -247,30 +203,30 @@ The following differences are rather technical. If they don't sound familiar to ### Line endings -The `--auto` flag is now ignored. Before, if a file had CR/LF (Windows-style) line endings on input (on any platform), it would have the same on output; likewise, LF (Unix-style) line endings. Now, files with CR/LF or LF line endings are processed on any platform, but the output line-ending is for the platform. E.g. reading CR/LF files on Linux will now produce LF output. +The `--auto` flag is now ignored. Before, if a file had CR/LF (Windows-style) line endings on input (on any platform), it would have the same on output; likewise, LF (Unix-style) line endings. Now, files with CR/LF or LF line endings are processed on any platform, but the output line ending is for the platform. E.g., reading CR/LF files on Linux will now produce LF output. ### IFS and IPS as regular expressions -IFS and IPS can be regular expressions now. Please see the section on [multi-character and regular-expression separators](reference-main-separators.md#multi-character-and-regular-expression-separators). +IFS and IPS can now be regular expressions. Please see the section on [multi-character and regular-expression separators](reference-main-separators.md#multi-character-and-regular-expression-separators). ### JSON and JSON Lines formatting * `--jknquoteint` and `jquoteall` are ignored; they were workarounds for the (now much-improved) type-inference and type-tracking in Miller 6. * `--json-fatal-arrays-on-input`, `--json-map-arrays-on-input`, and `--json-skip-arrays-on-input` are ignored; Miller 6 now supports arrays fully. * See also `mlr help legacy-flags` or the [legacy-flags reference](reference-main-flag-list.md#legacy-flags). -* Miller 5 accepted input records either with or without enclosing `[...]`; on output, by default it produced single-line records without outermost `[...]`. Miller 5 let you customize output formatting using `--jvstack` (multi-line records) and `--jlistwrap` (write outermost `[...]`). _Thus, Miller 5's JSON output format, with default flags, was in fact [JSON Lines](file-formats.md#json-lines) all along._ +* Miller 5 accepted input records either with or without enclosing `[...]`; on output, by default, it produced single-line records without outermost `[...]`. Miller 5 lets you customize output formatting using `--jvstack` (multi-line records) and `--jlistwrap` (write outermost `[...]`). _Thus, Miller 5's JSON output format, with default flags, was in fact [JSON Lines](file-formats.md#json-lines) all along._ * In Miller 6, [JSON Lines](file-formats.md#json-lines) is acknowledged explicitly. * On input, your records are accepted whether or not they have outermost `[...]`, and regardless of line breaks, whether the specified input format is JSON or JSON Lines. (This is similar to [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/).) * With `--ojson`, output records are written multiline (pretty-printed), with outermost `[...]`. * With `--ojsonl`, output records are written single-line, without outermost `[...]`. * This makes `--jvstack` and `--jlistwrap` unnecessary. However, if you want outermost `[...]` with single-line records, you can use `--ojson --no-jvstack`. -* Miller 5 tolerated trailing commas, which are not compliant with the JSON specification: for example, `{"x":1,"y":2,}`. Miller 6 uses a JSON parser which is compliant with the JSON specification and does not accept trailing commas. +* Miller 5 tolerated trailing commas, which are not compliant with the JSON specification: for example, `{"x":1,"y":2,}`. Miller 6 uses a JSON parser that is compliant with the JSON specification and does not accept trailing commas. ### Type-inference * The `-S` and `-F` flags to `mlr put` and `mlr filter` are ignored, since type-inference is no longer done in `mlr put` and `mlr filter`, but rather, when records are first read. You can use `mlr -S` and `mlr -A`, respectively, instead to control type-inference within the record-readers. * Octal numbers like `0123` and `07` are type-inferred as string. Use `mlr -O` to infer them as octal integers. Note that `08` and `09` will then infer as decimal integers. -* Any numbers prefix with `0o`, e.g. `0o377`, are already treated as octal regardless of `mlr -O` -- `mlr -O` only affects how leading-zero integers are handled. +* Any numbers prefixed with `0o`, e.g. `0o377`, are already treated as octal, regardless of `mlr -O` -- `mlr -O` only affects how leading-zero integers are handled. * See also the [miscellaneous-flags reference](reference-main-flag-list.md#miscellaneous-flags). ### Emit statements @@ -290,13 +246,12 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr -n put 'end {@input={"a":1}; emit1 {"input":@input["a"]}}' GENMD-EOF -Please see the [section on emit statements](reference-dsl-output-statements.md#emit1-and-emitemitpemitf) -for more information. +Please see the [section on emit statements](reference-dsl-output-statements.md#emit1-and-emitemitpemitf) for more information. ## Developer-specific aspects * Miller has been ported from C to Go. Developer notes: [https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/README-dev.md](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/blob/main/README-dev.md). -* Regression testing has been completely reworked, including regression-testing now running fully on Windows (alongside Linux and Mac) [on each GitHub commit](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions). +* Regression testing has been completely reworked, including regression-testing now running fully on Windows (alongside Linux and Mac) [on each github.commit](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/actions). ## Performance benchmarks diff --git a/docs/src/online-help.md b/docs/src/online-help.md index 5bbee15a1..bb8185e10 100644 --- a/docs/src/online-help.md +++ b/docs/src/online-help.md @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ Flags: mlr help comments-in-data-flags mlr help compressed-data-flags mlr help csv/tsv-only-flags + mlr help dkvp-only-flags mlr help file-format-flags mlr help flatten-unflatten-flags mlr help format-conversion-keystroke-saver-flags @@ -230,6 +231,7 @@ Options: -nf {comma-separated field names} Same as -n -nr {comma-separated field names} Numerical descending; nulls sort first -t {comma-separated field names} Natural ascending +-b Move sort fields to start of record, as in reorder -b -tr|-rt {comma-separated field names} Natural descending -h|--help Show this message. diff --git a/docs/src/operating-on-all-records.md b/docs/src/operating-on-all-records.md index 6663f1c18..668dcc367 100644 --- a/docs/src/operating-on-all-records.md +++ b/docs/src/operating-on-all-records.md @@ -274,8 +274,6 @@ array will have [null-gaps](reference-main-arrays.md) in it: "value": 54 } ] -[ -] You can index `@records` by `@count` rather than `NR` to get a contiguous array: diff --git a/docs/src/originality.md b/docs/src/originality.md index 7ceb77ab3..6e7fd8c49 100644 --- a/docs/src/originality.md +++ b/docs/src/originality.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Quick links: # How original is Miller? -It isn't. Miller is one of many, many participants in the online-analytical-processing culture. Other key participants include `awk`, SQL, spreadsheets, etc. etc. etc. Far from being an original concept, Miller explicitly strives to imitate several existing tools: +It isn't. Miller is just one of many participants in the online analytical processing culture. Other key participants include `awk`, SQL, spreadsheets, etc. etc. etc. Far from being an original concept, Miller explicitly strives to imitate several existing tools: **The Unix toolkit**: Intentional similarities as described in [Unix-toolkit Context](unix-toolkit-context.md). @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Recipes abound for command-line data analysis using the Unix toolkit. Here are j * [http://www.gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-science](http://www.gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-science) * [https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools](https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools) -**RecordStream**: Miller owes particular inspiration to [RecordStream](https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream). The key difference is that RecordStream is a Perl-based tool for manipulating JSON (including requiring it to separately manipulate other formats such as CSV into and out of JSON), while Miller is fast Go which handles its formats natively. The similarities include the `sort`, `stats1` (analog of RecordStream's `collate`), and `delta` operations, as well as `filter` and `put`, and pretty-print formatting. +**RecordStream**: Miller owes particular inspiration to [RecordStream](https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream). The key difference is that RecordStream is a Perl-based tool for manipulating JSON (including requiring it to separately manipulate other formats such as CSV into and out of JSON), while Miller is a fast Go tool that handles its formats natively. The similarities include the `sort`, `stats1` (analogous to RecordStream's `collate`), and `delta` operations, as well as `filter` and `put`, and the use of pretty-print formatting. **stats_m**: A third source of lineage is my Python [stats_m](https://github.com/johnkerl/scripts-math/tree/master/stats) module. This includes simple single-pass algorithms which form Miller's `stats1` and `stats2` subcommands. @@ -35,21 +35,21 @@ Recipes abound for command-line data analysis using the Unix toolkit. Here are j **Added value**: Miller's added values include: * Name-indexing, compared to the Unix toolkit's positional indexing. -* Raw speed, compared to `awk`, RecordStream, `stats_m`, or various other kinds of Python/Ruby/etc. scripts one can easily create. +* Raw speed, compared to `awk`, RecordStream, `stats_m`, or various other kinds of Python/Ruby/etc. scripts that one can easily create. * Compact keystroking for many common tasks, with a decent amount of flexibility. -* Ability to handle text files on the Unix pipe, without need for creating database tables, compared to SQL databases. +* Ability to handle text files on the Unix pipe, without the need for creating database tables, compared to SQL databases. * Various file formats, and on-the-fly format conversion. **jq**: Miller does for name-indexed text what [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) does for JSON. If you're not already familiar with `jq`, please check it out!. **What about similar tools?** -Here's a comprehensive list: [https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools](https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools). Last I knew it doesn't mention [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows) so here's a plug for that as well. As it turns out, I learned about most of these after writing Miller. +Here's a comprehensive list: [https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools](https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools). Last I knew, it doesn't mention [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows) so here's a plug for that as well. As it turns out, I learned about most of these after writing Miller. -**What about DOTADIW?** One of the key points of the [Unix philosophy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy) is that a tool should do one thing and do it well. Hence `sort` and `cut` do just one thing. Why does Miller put `awk`-like processing, a few SQL-like operations, and statistical reduction all into one tool? This is a fair question. First note that many standard tools, such as `awk` and `perl`, do quite a few things -- as does `jq`. But I could have pushed for putting format awareness and name-indexing options into `cut`, `awk`, and so on (so you could do `cut -f hostname,uptime` or `awk '{sum += $x*$y}END{print sum}'`). Patching `cut`, `sort`, etc. on multiple operating systems is a non-starter in terms of uptake. Moreover, it makes sense for me to have Miller be a tool which collects together format-aware record-stream processing into one place, with good reuse of Miller-internal library code for its various features. +**What about DOTADIW?** One of the key points of the [Unix philosophy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy) is that a tool should do one thing and do it well. Hence, `sort` and `cut` do just one thing. Why does Miller put `awk`-like processing, a few SQL-like operations, and statistical reduction all into one tool? This is a fair question. First, note that many standard tools, such as `awk` and `perl`, do quite a few things -- as does `jq`. But I could have pushed for putting format awareness and name-indexing options into `cut`, `awk`, and so on (so you could do `cut -f hostname,uptime` or `awk '{sum += $x*$y}END{print sum}'`). Patching `cut`, `sort`, etc., on multiple operating systems is a non-starter in terms of uptake. Moreover, it makes sense for me to have Miller be a tool that collects together format-aware record-stream processing into one place, with good reuse of Miller's internal library code for its various features. -**Why not use Perl/Python/Ruby etc.?** Maybe you should. With those tools you'll get far more expressive power, and sufficiently quick turnaround time for small-to-medium-sized data. Using Miller you'll get something less than a complete programming language, but which is fast, with moderate amounts of flexibility and much less keystroking. +**Why not use Perl/Python/Ruby, etc.?** Maybe you should. With those tools, you'll gain significantly more expressive power and a sufficiently quick turnaround time for small to medium-sized datasets. Using Miller, you'll get something less than a complete programming language, but which is fast, with moderate amounts of flexibility and much less keystroking. -When I was first developing Miller I made a survey of several languages. Using low-level implementation languages like C, Go, Rust, and Nim, I'd need to create my own domain-specific language (DSL) which would always be less featured than a full programming language, but I'd get better performance. Using high-level interpreted languages such as Perl/Python/Ruby I'd get the language's `eval` for free and I wouldn't need a DSL; Miller would have mainly been a set of format-specific I/O hooks. If I'd gotten good enough performance from the latter I'd have done it without question and Miller would be far more flexible. But low-level languages win the performance criteria by a landslide so we have Miller in Go with a custom DSL. +When I was first developing Miller, I made a survey of several languages. Using low-level implementation languages like C, Go, Rust, and Nim, I'd need to create my own domain-specific language (DSL), which would always be less featured than a full programming language, but I'd get better performance. Using high-level interpreted languages such as Perl/Python/Ruby, I'd get the language's `eval` for free and I wouldn't need a DSL; Miller would have mainly been a set of format-specific I/O hooks. If I'd gotten good enough performance from the latter, I'd have done it without question, and Miller would be far more flexible. But low-level languages win the performance criteria by a landslide, so we have Miller in Go with a custom DSL. -**No, really, why one more command-line data-manipulation tool?** I wrote Miller because I was frustrated with tools like `grep`, `sed`, and so on being *line-aware* without being *format-aware*. The single most poignant example I can think of is seeing people grep data lines out of their CSV files and sadly losing their header lines. While some lighter-than-SQL processing is very nice to have, at core I wanted the format-awareness of [RecordStream](https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream) combined with the raw speed of the Unix toolkit. Miller does precisely that. +**No, really, why one more command-line data-manipulation tool?** I wrote Miller because I was frustrated with tools like `grep`, `sed`, and so on being *line-aware* without being *format-aware*. The single most poignant example I can think of is seeing people grep data lines from their CSV files and sadly losing their header lines. While some lighter-than-SQL processing is very nice to have, at core I wanted the format-awareness of [RecordStream](https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream) combined with the raw speed of the Unix toolkit. Miller does precisely that. diff --git a/docs/src/originality.md.in b/docs/src/originality.md.in index d6825a9d1..15875e183 100644 --- a/docs/src/originality.md.in +++ b/docs/src/originality.md.in @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # How original is Miller? -It isn't. Miller is one of many, many participants in the online-analytical-processing culture. Other key participants include `awk`, SQL, spreadsheets, etc. etc. etc. Far from being an original concept, Miller explicitly strives to imitate several existing tools: +It isn't. Miller is just one of many participants in the online analytical processing culture. Other key participants include `awk`, SQL, spreadsheets, etc. etc. etc. Far from being an original concept, Miller explicitly strives to imitate several existing tools: **The Unix toolkit**: Intentional similarities as described in [Unix-toolkit Context](unix-toolkit-context.md). @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Recipes abound for command-line data analysis using the Unix toolkit. Here are j * [http://www.gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-science](http://www.gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-science) * [https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools](https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools) -**RecordStream**: Miller owes particular inspiration to [RecordStream](https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream). The key difference is that RecordStream is a Perl-based tool for manipulating JSON (including requiring it to separately manipulate other formats such as CSV into and out of JSON), while Miller is fast Go which handles its formats natively. The similarities include the `sort`, `stats1` (analog of RecordStream's `collate`), and `delta` operations, as well as `filter` and `put`, and pretty-print formatting. +**RecordStream**: Miller owes particular inspiration to [RecordStream](https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream). The key difference is that RecordStream is a Perl-based tool for manipulating JSON (including requiring it to separately manipulate other formats such as CSV into and out of JSON), while Miller is a fast Go tool that handles its formats natively. The similarities include the `sort`, `stats1` (analogous to RecordStream's `collate`), and `delta` operations, as well as `filter` and `put`, and the use of pretty-print formatting. **stats_m**: A third source of lineage is my Python [stats_m](https://github.com/johnkerl/scripts-math/tree/master/stats) module. This includes simple single-pass algorithms which form Miller's `stats1` and `stats2` subcommands. @@ -19,21 +19,21 @@ Recipes abound for command-line data analysis using the Unix toolkit. Here are j **Added value**: Miller's added values include: * Name-indexing, compared to the Unix toolkit's positional indexing. -* Raw speed, compared to `awk`, RecordStream, `stats_m`, or various other kinds of Python/Ruby/etc. scripts one can easily create. +* Raw speed, compared to `awk`, RecordStream, `stats_m`, or various other kinds of Python/Ruby/etc. scripts that one can easily create. * Compact keystroking for many common tasks, with a decent amount of flexibility. -* Ability to handle text files on the Unix pipe, without need for creating database tables, compared to SQL databases. +* Ability to handle text files on the Unix pipe, without the need for creating database tables, compared to SQL databases. * Various file formats, and on-the-fly format conversion. **jq**: Miller does for name-indexed text what [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/) does for JSON. If you're not already familiar with `jq`, please check it out!. **What about similar tools?** -Here's a comprehensive list: [https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools](https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools). Last I knew it doesn't mention [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows) so here's a plug for that as well. As it turns out, I learned about most of these after writing Miller. +Here's a comprehensive list: [https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools](https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools). Last I knew, it doesn't mention [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows) so here's a plug for that as well. As it turns out, I learned about most of these after writing Miller. -**What about DOTADIW?** One of the key points of the [Unix philosophy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy) is that a tool should do one thing and do it well. Hence `sort` and `cut` do just one thing. Why does Miller put `awk`-like processing, a few SQL-like operations, and statistical reduction all into one tool? This is a fair question. First note that many standard tools, such as `awk` and `perl`, do quite a few things -- as does `jq`. But I could have pushed for putting format awareness and name-indexing options into `cut`, `awk`, and so on (so you could do `cut -f hostname,uptime` or `awk '{sum += $x*$y}END{print sum}'`). Patching `cut`, `sort`, etc. on multiple operating systems is a non-starter in terms of uptake. Moreover, it makes sense for me to have Miller be a tool which collects together format-aware record-stream processing into one place, with good reuse of Miller-internal library code for its various features. +**What about DOTADIW?** One of the key points of the [Unix philosophy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy) is that a tool should do one thing and do it well. Hence, `sort` and `cut` do just one thing. Why does Miller put `awk`-like processing, a few SQL-like operations, and statistical reduction all into one tool? This is a fair question. First, note that many standard tools, such as `awk` and `perl`, do quite a few things -- as does `jq`. But I could have pushed for putting format awareness and name-indexing options into `cut`, `awk`, and so on (so you could do `cut -f hostname,uptime` or `awk '{sum += $x*$y}END{print sum}'`). Patching `cut`, `sort`, etc., on multiple operating systems is a non-starter in terms of uptake. Moreover, it makes sense for me to have Miller be a tool that collects together format-aware record-stream processing into one place, with good reuse of Miller's internal library code for its various features. -**Why not use Perl/Python/Ruby etc.?** Maybe you should. With those tools you'll get far more expressive power, and sufficiently quick turnaround time for small-to-medium-sized data. Using Miller you'll get something less than a complete programming language, but which is fast, with moderate amounts of flexibility and much less keystroking. +**Why not use Perl/Python/Ruby, etc.?** Maybe you should. With those tools, you'll gain significantly more expressive power and a sufficiently quick turnaround time for small to medium-sized datasets. Using Miller, you'll get something less than a complete programming language, but which is fast, with moderate amounts of flexibility and much less keystroking. -When I was first developing Miller I made a survey of several languages. Using low-level implementation languages like C, Go, Rust, and Nim, I'd need to create my own domain-specific language (DSL) which would always be less featured than a full programming language, but I'd get better performance. Using high-level interpreted languages such as Perl/Python/Ruby I'd get the language's `eval` for free and I wouldn't need a DSL; Miller would have mainly been a set of format-specific I/O hooks. If I'd gotten good enough performance from the latter I'd have done it without question and Miller would be far more flexible. But low-level languages win the performance criteria by a landslide so we have Miller in Go with a custom DSL. +When I was first developing Miller, I made a survey of several languages. Using low-level implementation languages like C, Go, Rust, and Nim, I'd need to create my own domain-specific language (DSL), which would always be less featured than a full programming language, but I'd get better performance. Using high-level interpreted languages such as Perl/Python/Ruby, I'd get the language's `eval` for free and I wouldn't need a DSL; Miller would have mainly been a set of format-specific I/O hooks. If I'd gotten good enough performance from the latter, I'd have done it without question, and Miller would be far more flexible. But low-level languages win the performance criteria by a landslide, so we have Miller in Go with a custom DSL. -**No, really, why one more command-line data-manipulation tool?** I wrote Miller because I was frustrated with tools like `grep`, `sed`, and so on being *line-aware* without being *format-aware*. The single most poignant example I can think of is seeing people grep data lines out of their CSV files and sadly losing their header lines. While some lighter-than-SQL processing is very nice to have, at core I wanted the format-awareness of [RecordStream](https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream) combined with the raw speed of the Unix toolkit. Miller does precisely that. +**No, really, why one more command-line data-manipulation tool?** I wrote Miller because I was frustrated with tools like `grep`, `sed`, and so on being *line-aware* without being *format-aware*. The single most poignant example I can think of is seeing people grep data lines from their CSV files and sadly losing their header lines. While some lighter-than-SQL processing is very nice to have, at core I wanted the format-awareness of [RecordStream](https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream) combined with the raw speed of the Unix toolkit. Miller does precisely that. diff --git a/docs/src/output-colorization.md b/docs/src/output-colorization.md index 6282d2172..e94cfe91a 100644 --- a/docs/src/output-colorization.md +++ b/docs/src/output-colorization.md @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ described below: * Suppression/unsuppression: - * `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` means Miller won't color even when it normally would. + * `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` or `export NO_COLOR=true` means Miller won't color even when it normally would. * `export MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR=true` means Miller will color even when it normally would not. For example, you might want to use this when piping `mlr` output to `less -r`. * Command-line flags `--no-color` or `-M`, `--always-color` or `-C`. * On Windows, replace `export` with `set` diff --git a/docs/src/output-colorization.md.in b/docs/src/output-colorization.md.in index e60a53887..8c32c3f9b 100644 --- a/docs/src/output-colorization.md.in +++ b/docs/src/output-colorization.md.in @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ described below: * Suppression/unsuppression: - * `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` means Miller won't color even when it normally would. + * `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` or `export NO_COLOR=true` means Miller won't color even when it normally would. * `export MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR=true` means Miller will color even when it normally would not. For example, you might want to use this when piping `mlr` output to `less -r`. * Command-line flags `--no-color` or `-M`, `--always-color` or `-C`. * On Windows, replace `export` with `set` diff --git a/docs/src/record-heterogeneity.md b/docs/src/record-heterogeneity.md index de96ae69c..1eb7eb0b5 100644 --- a/docs/src/record-heterogeneity.md +++ b/docs/src/record-heterogeneity.md @@ -16,12 +16,11 @@ Quick links: # Record-heterogeneity -We think of CSV tables as rectangular: if there are 17 columns in the header -then there are 17 columns for every row, else the data have a formatting error. +We think of CSV tables as rectangular: if there are 17 columns in the header, then there are 17 columns for every row, else the data has a formatting error. But heterogeneous data abound -- log-file entries, JSON documents, no-SQL databases such as MongoDB, etc. -- not to mention **data-cleaning -opportunities** we'll look at in this page. Miller offers several ways to +opportunities** we'll look at on this page. Miller offers several ways to handle data heterogeneity. ## Terminology, examples, and solutions @@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ It has three records (written here using JSON Lines formatting): Here every row has the same keys, in the same order: `a,b,c`. -These are also sometimes called **rectangular** since if we pretty-print them we get a nice rectangle: +These are also sometimes called **rectangular** since if we pretty-print them, we get a nice rectangle:
 mlr --icsv --opprint cat data/het/hom.csv
@@ -94,7 +93,7 @@ a,b,c
 This example is still homogeneous, though: every row has the same keys, in the same order: `a,b,c`.
 Empty values don't make the data heterogeneous.
 
-Note however that we can use the [`fill-empty`](reference-verbs.md#fill-empty) verb to make these
+Note, however, that we can use the [`fill-empty`](reference-verbs.md#fill-empty) verb to make these
 values non-empty, if we like:
 
 
@@ -109,7 +108,7 @@ filler 8      9
 
 ### Ragged data
 
-Next let's look at non-well-formed CSV files. For a third example:
+Next, let's look at non-well-formed CSV files. For a third example:
 
 
 cat data/het/ragged.csv
@@ -130,17 +129,11 @@ If you `mlr --csv cat` this, you'll get an error message:
 a,b,c
 1,2,3
 mlr: mlr: CSV header/data length mismatch 3 != 2 at filename data/het/ragged.csv row 3.
-.
 
-There are two kinds of raggedness here. Since CSVs form records by zipping the -keys from the header line together with the values from each data line, the -second record has a missing value for key `c` (which ought to be fillable), -while the third record has a value `10` with no key for it. +There are two kinds of raggedness here. Since CSVs form records by zipping the keys from the header line, together with the values from each data line, the second record has a missing value for key `c` (which ought to be fillable), while the third record has a value `10` with no key for it. -Using the [`--allow-ragged-csv-input` flag](reference-main-flag-list.md#csv-only-flags) -we can fill values in too-short rows, and provide a key (column number starting -with 1) for too-long rows: +Using the [`--allow-ragged-csv-input` flag](reference-main-flag-list.md#csv-only-flags), we can fill values in too-short rows and provide a key (column number starting with 1) for too-long rows:
 mlr --icsv --ojson --allow-ragged-csv-input cat data/het/ragged.csv
@@ -187,7 +180,7 @@ This kind of data arises often in practice. One reason is that, while many
 programming languages (including the Miller DSL) [preserve insertion
 order](reference-main-maps.md#insertion-order-is-preserved) in maps; others do
 not. So someone might have written `{"a":4,"b":5,"c":6}` in the source code,
-but the data may not have printed that way into a given data file.
+but the data may not have been printed that way into a given data file.
 
 We can use the [`regularize`](reference-verbs.md#regularize) or
 [`sort-within-records`](reference-verbs.md#sort-within-records) verb to order
@@ -204,13 +197,13 @@ the keys:
 
 The `regularize` verb tries to re-order subsequent rows to look like the first
 (whatever order that is); the `sort-within-records` verb simply uses
-alphabetical order (which is the same in the above example where the first
+alphabetical order (which is the same in the above example, where the first
 record has keys in the order `a,b,c`).
 
 ### Sparse data
 
 Here's another frequently occurring situation -- quite often, systems will log
-data for items which are present, but won't log data for items which aren't.
+data for items that are present, but won't log data for items that aren't.
 
 
 mlr --json cat data/het/sparse.json
@@ -237,8 +230,7 @@ data for items which are present, but won't log data for items which aren't.
 
 This data is called **sparse** (from the [data-storage term](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_matrix)).
 
-We can use the [`unsparsify`](reference-verbs.md#unsparsify) verb to make sure
-every record has the same keys:
+We can use the [`unsparsify`](reference-verbs.md#unsparsify) verb to make sure every record has the same keys:
 
 
 mlr --json unsparsify data/het/sparse.json
@@ -283,12 +275,11 @@ xy55.east -       /dev/sda1 failover true
 
 ## Reading and writing heterogeneous data
 
-In the previous sections we saw different kinds of data heterogeneity, and ways
-to transform the data to make it homogeneous.
+In the previous sections, we saw different kinds of data heterogeneity and ways to transform the data to make it homogeneous.
 
 ### Non-rectangular file formats: JSON, XTAB, NIDX, DKVP
 
-For these formats, record-heterogeneity comes naturally:
+For these formats, record heterogeneity comes naturally:
 
 
 cat data/het/sparse.json
@@ -372,11 +363,11 @@ record_count=150,resource=/path/to/second/file
 
 ### Rectangular file formats: CSV and pretty-print
 
-CSV and pretty-print formats expect rectangular structure. But Miller lets you
+CSV and pretty-print formats expect a rectangular structure. But Miller lets you
 process non-rectangular using CSV and pretty-print.
 
-For CSV-lite and TSV-lite, Miller simply prints a newline and a new header when there is a schema
-change -- where by _schema_ we mean simply the list of record keys in the order they are
+For CSV-lite and TSV-lite, Miller prints a newline and a new header when there is a schema
+change -- where by _schema_ we mean the list of record keys in the order they are
 encountered. When there is no schema change, you get CSV per se as a special case. Likewise, Miller
 reads heterogeneous CSV or pretty-print input the same way. The difference between CSV and CSV-lite
 is that the former is [RFC-4180-compliant](file-formats.md#csvtsvasvusvetc), while the latter
@@ -471,9 +462,7 @@ mlr: CSV schema change: first keys "resource,loadsec,ok"; current keys "record_c
 mlr: exiting due to data error.
 
-Miller handles explicit header changes as just shown. If your CSV input contains ragged data -- if -there are implicit header changes (no intervening blank line and new header line) as seen above -- -you can use `--allow-ragged-csv-input` (or keystroke-saver `--ragged`). +Miller handles explicit header changes as shown. If your CSV input contains ragged data -- if there are implicit header changes (no intervening blank line and new header line) as seen above -- you can use `--allow-ragged-csv-input` (or keystroke-saver `--ragged`).
 mlr --csv --allow-ragged-csv-input cat data/het/ragged.csv
@@ -488,11 +477,11 @@ a,b,c
 ## Processing heterogeneous data
 
 Above we saw how to make heterogeneous data homogeneous, and then how to print heterogeneous data.
-As for other processing, record-heterogeneity is not a problem for Miller.
+As for other processing, record heterogeneity is not a problem for Miller.
 
 Miller operates on specified fields and takes the rest along: for example, if
-you are sorting on the `count` field then all records in the input stream must
-have a `count` field but the other fields can vary, and moreover the sorted-on
+you are sorting on the `count` field, then all records in the input stream must
+have a `count` field, but the other fields can vary---and moreover the sorted-on
 field name(s) don't need to be in the same position on each line:
 
 
diff --git a/docs/src/record-heterogeneity.md.in b/docs/src/record-heterogeneity.md.in
index 677098ee8..e3c128b57 100644
--- a/docs/src/record-heterogeneity.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/record-heterogeneity.md.in
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 # Record-heterogeneity
 
-We think of CSV tables as rectangular: if there are 17 columns in the header
-then there are 17 columns for every row, else the data have a formatting error.
+We think of CSV tables as rectangular: if there are 17 columns in the header, then there are 17 columns for every row, else the data has a formatting error.
 
 But heterogeneous data abound -- log-file entries, JSON documents, no-SQL
 databases such as MongoDB, etc. -- not to mention **data-cleaning
-opportunities** we'll look at in this page. Miller offers several ways to
+opportunities** we'll look at on this page. Miller offers several ways to
 handle data heterogeneity.
 
 ## Terminology, examples, and solutions
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 Here every row has the same keys, in the same order: `a,b,c`.
 
-These are also sometimes called **rectangular** since if we pretty-print them we get a nice rectangle:
+These are also sometimes called **rectangular** since if we pretty-print them, we get a nice rectangle:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --icsv --opprint cat data/het/hom.csv
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 This example is still homogeneous, though: every row has the same keys, in the same order: `a,b,c`.
 Empty values don't make the data heterogeneous.
 
-Note however that we can use the [`fill-empty`](reference-verbs.md#fill-empty) verb to make these
+Note, however, that we can use the [`fill-empty`](reference-verbs.md#fill-empty) verb to make these
 values non-empty, if we like:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
@@ -59,7 +58,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 ### Ragged data
 
-Next let's look at non-well-formed CSV files. For a third example:
+Next, let's look at non-well-formed CSV files. For a third example:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 cat data/het/ragged.csv
@@ -71,14 +70,9 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND-TOLERATING-ERROR
 mlr --csv cat data/het/ragged.csv
 GENMD-EOF
 
-There are two kinds of raggedness here. Since CSVs form records by zipping the
-keys from the header line together with the values from each data line, the
-second record has a missing value for key `c` (which ought to be fillable),
-while the third record has a value `10` with no key for it.
+There are two kinds of raggedness here. Since CSVs form records by zipping the keys from the header line, together with the values from each data line, the second record has a missing value for key `c` (which ought to be fillable), while the third record has a value `10` with no key for it.
 
-Using the [`--allow-ragged-csv-input` flag](reference-main-flag-list.md#csv-only-flags)
-we can fill values in too-short rows, and provide a key (column number starting
-with 1) for too-long rows:
+Using the [`--allow-ragged-csv-input` flag](reference-main-flag-list.md#csv-only-flags), we can fill values in too-short rows and provide a key (column number starting with 1) for too-long rows:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND-TOLERATING-ERROR
 mlr --icsv --ojson --allow-ragged-csv-input cat data/het/ragged.csv
@@ -101,7 +95,7 @@ This kind of data arises often in practice. One reason is that, while many
 programming languages (including the Miller DSL) [preserve insertion
 order](reference-main-maps.md#insertion-order-is-preserved) in maps; others do
 not. So someone might have written `{"a":4,"b":5,"c":6}` in the source code,
-but the data may not have printed that way into a given data file.
+but the data may not have been printed that way into a given data file.
 
 We can use the [`regularize`](reference-verbs.md#regularize) or
 [`sort-within-records`](reference-verbs.md#sort-within-records) verb to order
@@ -113,13 +107,13 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 The `regularize` verb tries to re-order subsequent rows to look like the first
 (whatever order that is); the `sort-within-records` verb simply uses
-alphabetical order (which is the same in the above example where the first
+alphabetical order (which is the same in the above example, where the first
 record has keys in the order `a,b,c`).
 
 ### Sparse data
 
 Here's another frequently occurring situation -- quite often, systems will log
-data for items which are present, but won't log data for items which aren't.
+data for items that are present, but won't log data for items that aren't.
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --json cat data/het/sparse.json
@@ -127,8 +121,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 This data is called **sparse** (from the [data-storage term](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_matrix)).
 
-We can use the [`unsparsify`](reference-verbs.md#unsparsify) verb to make sure
-every record has the same keys:
+We can use the [`unsparsify`](reference-verbs.md#unsparsify) verb to make sure every record has the same keys:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --json unsparsify data/het/sparse.json
@@ -142,12 +135,11 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 ## Reading and writing heterogeneous data
 
-In the previous sections we saw different kinds of data heterogeneity, and ways
-to transform the data to make it homogeneous.
+In the previous sections, we saw different kinds of data heterogeneity and ways to transform the data to make it homogeneous.
 
 ### Non-rectangular file formats: JSON, XTAB, NIDX, DKVP
 
-For these formats, record-heterogeneity comes naturally:
+For these formats, record heterogeneity comes naturally:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 cat data/het/sparse.json
@@ -177,11 +169,11 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 ### Rectangular file formats: CSV and pretty-print
 
-CSV and pretty-print formats expect rectangular structure. But Miller lets you
+CSV and pretty-print formats expect a rectangular structure. But Miller lets you
 process non-rectangular using CSV and pretty-print.
 
-For CSV-lite and TSV-lite, Miller simply prints a newline and a new header when there is a schema
-change -- where by _schema_ we mean simply the list of record keys in the order they are
+For CSV-lite and TSV-lite, Miller prints a newline and a new header when there is a schema
+change -- where by _schema_ we mean the list of record keys in the order they are
 encountered. When there is no schema change, you get CSV per se as a special case. Likewise, Miller
 reads heterogeneous CSV or pretty-print input the same way. The difference between CSV and CSV-lite
 is that the former is [RFC-4180-compliant](file-formats.md#csvtsvasvusvetc), while the latter
@@ -207,9 +199,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND-TOLERATING-ERROR
 mlr --ijson --ocsv group-like data/het.json
 GENMD-EOF
 
-Miller handles explicit header changes as just shown. If your CSV input contains ragged data -- if
-there are implicit header changes (no intervening blank line and new header line) as seen above --
-you can use `--allow-ragged-csv-input` (or keystroke-saver `--ragged`).
+Miller handles explicit header changes as shown. If your CSV input contains ragged data -- if there are implicit header changes (no intervening blank line and new header line) as seen above -- you can use `--allow-ragged-csv-input` (or keystroke-saver `--ragged`).
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --csv --allow-ragged-csv-input cat data/het/ragged.csv
@@ -218,11 +208,11 @@ GENMD-EOF
 ## Processing heterogeneous data
 
 Above we saw how to make heterogeneous data homogeneous, and then how to print heterogeneous data.
-As for other processing, record-heterogeneity is not a problem for Miller.
+As for other processing, record heterogeneity is not a problem for Miller.
 
 Miller operates on specified fields and takes the rest along: for example, if
-you are sorting on the `count` field then all records in the input stream must
-have a `count` field but the other fields can vary, and moreover the sorted-on
+you are sorting on the `count` field, then all records in the input stream must
+have a `count` field, but the other fields can vary---and moreover the sorted-on
 field name(s) don't need to be in the same position on each line:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md
index 3a55821f3..880ffb19f 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md
@@ -16,9 +16,7 @@ Quick links:
 
 # DSL built-in functions
 
-These are functions in the [Miller programming language](miller-programming-language.md)
-that you can call when you use `mlr put` and `mlr filter`. For example, when you type
-
+These are functions in the [Miller programming language](miller-programming-language.md) that you can call when you use `mlr put` and `mlr filter`. For example, when you type
 
 mlr --icsv --opprint --from example.csv put '
   $color = toupper($color);
@@ -43,26 +41,13 @@ the `toupper` and `gsub` bits are _functions_.
 
 ## Overview
 
-At the command line, you can use `mlr -f` and `mlr -F` for information much
-like what's on this page.
+At the command line, you can use `mlr -f` and `mlr -F` for information much like what's on this page.
 
-Each function takes a specific number of arguments, as shown below, except for
-functions marked as variadic such as `min` and `max`. (The latter compute min
-and max of any number of arguments.) There is no notion of optional or
-default-on-absent arguments. All argument-passing is positional rather than by
-name; arguments are passed by value, not by reference.
+Each function takes a specific number of arguments, as shown below, except for functions marked as variadic, such as `min` and `max`. (The latter compute the min and max of any number of arguments.) There is no notion of optional or default-on-absent arguments. All argument-passing is positional rather than by name; arguments are passed by value, not by reference.
 
-At the command line, you can get a list of all functions using `mlr -f`, with
-details using `mlr -F`.  (Or, `mlr help usage-functions-by-class` to get
-details in the order shown on this page.) You can get detail for a given
-function using `mlr help function namegoeshere`, e.g.  `mlr help function
-gsub`.
+At the command line, you can get a list of all functions using `mlr -f`, with details using `mlr -F`.  (Or, `mlr help usage-functions-by-class` to get details in the order shown on this page.) You can get details for a given function using `mlr help function namegoeshere`, e.g., `mlr help function gsub`.
 
-Operators are listed here along with functions. In this case, the
-argument-count is the number of items involved in the infix operator, e.g. we
-say `x+y` so the details for the `+` operator say that its number of arguments
-is 2. Unary operators such as `!` and `~` show argument-count of 1; the ternary
-`? :` operator shows an argument-count of 3.
+Operators are listed here along with functions. In this case, the argument count refers to the number of items involved in the infix operator. For example, we say `x+y`, so the details for the `+` operator indicate that it has two arguments. Unary operators such as `!` and `~` show argument-count of 1; the ternary `? :` operator shows an argument count of 3.
 
 
 ## Functions by class
@@ -76,7 +61,7 @@ is 2. Unary operators such as `!` and `~` show argument-count of 1; the ternary
 * [**Math functions**](#math-functions):  [abs](#abs),  [acos](#acos),  [acosh](#acosh),  [asin](#asin),  [asinh](#asinh),  [atan](#atan),  [atan2](#atan2),  [atanh](#atanh),  [cbrt](#cbrt),  [ceil](#ceil),  [cos](#cos),  [cosh](#cosh),  [erf](#erf),  [erfc](#erfc),  [exp](#exp),  [expm1](#expm1),  [floor](#floor),  [invqnorm](#invqnorm),  [log](#log),  [log10](#log10),  [log1p](#log1p),  [logifit](#logifit),  [max](#max),  [min](#min),  [qnorm](#qnorm),  [round](#round),  [roundm](#roundm),  [sgn](#sgn),  [sin](#sin),  [sinh](#sinh),  [sqrt](#sqrt),  [tan](#tan),  [tanh](#tanh),  [urand](#urand),  [urand32](#urand32),  [urandelement](#urandelement),  [urandint](#urandint),  [urandrange](#urandrange).
 * [**Stats functions**](#stats-functions):  [antimode](#antimode),  [count](#count),  [distinct_count](#distinct_count),  [kurtosis](#kurtosis),  [maxlen](#maxlen),  [mean](#mean),  [meaneb](#meaneb),  [median](#median),  [minlen](#minlen),  [mode](#mode),  [null_count](#null_count),  [percentile](#percentile),  [percentiles](#percentiles),  [skewness](#skewness),  [sort_collection](#sort_collection),  [stddev](#stddev),  [sum](#sum),  [sum2](#sum2),  [sum3](#sum3),  [sum4](#sum4),  [variance](#variance).
 * [**String functions**](#string-functions):  [capitalize](#capitalize),  [clean_whitespace](#clean_whitespace),  [collapse_whitespace](#collapse_whitespace),  [contains](#contains),  [format](#format),  [gssub](#gssub),  [gsub](#gsub),  [index](#index),  [latin1_to_utf8](#latin1_to_utf8),  [leftpad](#leftpad),  [lstrip](#lstrip),  [regextract](#regextract),  [regextract_or_else](#regextract_or_else),  [rightpad](#rightpad),  [rstrip](#rstrip),  [ssub](#ssub),  [strip](#strip),  [strlen](#strlen),  [strmatch](#strmatch),  [strmatchx](#strmatchx),  [sub](#sub),  [substr](#substr),  [substr0](#substr0),  [substr1](#substr1),  [tolower](#tolower),  [toupper](#toupper),  [truncate](#truncate),  [unformat](#unformat),  [unformatx](#unformatx),  [utf8_to_latin1](#utf8_to_latin1),  [\.](#dot).
-* [**System functions**](#system-functions):  [exec](#exec),  [hostname](#hostname),  [os](#os),  [system](#system),  [version](#version).
+* [**System functions**](#system-functions):  [exec](#exec),  [hostname](#hostname),  [os](#os),  [stat](#stat),  [system](#system),  [version](#version).
 * [**Time functions**](#time-functions):  [dhms2fsec](#dhms2fsec),  [dhms2sec](#dhms2sec),  [fsec2dhms](#fsec2dhms),  [fsec2hms](#fsec2hms),  [gmt2localtime](#gmt2localtime),  [gmt2nsec](#gmt2nsec),  [gmt2sec](#gmt2sec),  [hms2fsec](#hms2fsec),  [hms2sec](#hms2sec),  [localtime2gmt](#localtime2gmt),  [localtime2nsec](#localtime2nsec),  [localtime2sec](#localtime2sec),  [nsec2gmt](#nsec2gmt),  [nsec2gmtdate](#nsec2gmtdate),  [nsec2localdate](#nsec2localdate),  [nsec2localtime](#nsec2localtime),  [sec2dhms](#sec2dhms),  [sec2gmt](#sec2gmt),  [sec2gmtdate](#sec2gmtdate),  [sec2hms](#sec2hms),  [sec2localdate](#sec2localdate),  [sec2localtime](#sec2localtime),  [strfntime](#strfntime),  [strfntime_local](#strfntime_local),  [strftime](#strftime),  [strftime_local](#strftime_local),  [strpntime](#strpntime),  [strpntime_local](#strpntime_local),  [strptime](#strptime),  [strptime_local](#strptime_local),  [sysntime](#sysntime),  [systime](#systime),  [systimeint](#systimeint),  [upntime](#upntime),  [uptime](#uptime).
 * [**Typing functions**](#typing-functions):  [asserting_absent](#asserting_absent),  [asserting_array](#asserting_array),  [asserting_bool](#asserting_bool),  [asserting_boolean](#asserting_boolean),  [asserting_empty](#asserting_empty),  [asserting_empty_map](#asserting_empty_map),  [asserting_error](#asserting_error),  [asserting_float](#asserting_float),  [asserting_int](#asserting_int),  [asserting_map](#asserting_map),  [asserting_nonempty_map](#asserting_nonempty_map),  [asserting_not_array](#asserting_not_array),  [asserting_not_empty](#asserting_not_empty),  [asserting_not_map](#asserting_not_map),  [asserting_not_null](#asserting_not_null),  [asserting_null](#asserting_null),  [asserting_numeric](#asserting_numeric),  [asserting_present](#asserting_present),  [asserting_string](#asserting_string),  [is_absent](#is_absent),  [is_array](#is_array),  [is_bool](#is_bool),  [is_boolean](#is_boolean),  [is_empty](#is_empty),  [is_empty_map](#is_empty_map),  [is_error](#is_error),  [is_float](#is_float),  [is_int](#is_int),  [is_map](#is_map),  [is_nan](#is_nan),  [is_nonempty_map](#is_nonempty_map),  [is_not_array](#is_not_array),  [is_not_empty](#is_not_empty),  [is_not_map](#is_not_map),  [is_not_null](#is_not_null),  [is_null](#is_null),  [is_numeric](#is_numeric),  [is_present](#is_present),  [is_string](#is_string),  [typeof](#typeof).
 
@@ -534,9 +519,14 @@ $* = fmtifnum($*, "%.6f") formats numeric fields in the current record, leaving
 
 ### fmtnum
 
-fmtnum  (class=conversion #args=2) Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. This function recurses on array and map values.
-Example:
-$x = fmtnum($x, "%.6f")
+fmtnum  (class=conversion #args=2) Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. Miller-specific extension: "%_d" and "%_f" for comma-separated thousands. This function recurses on array and map values.
+Examples:
+$y = fmtnum($x, "%.6f")
+$o = fmtnum($n, "%d")
+$o = fmtnum($n, "%12d")
+$y = fmtnum($x, "%.6_f")
+$o = fmtnum($n, "%_d")
+$o = fmtnum($n, "%12_d")
 
@@ -1497,6 +1487,21 @@ os (class=system #args=0) Returns the operating-system name as a string.
+### stat +
+stat  (class=system #args=1) Returns a map containing information about the provided path: "name" with string value, "size" as decimal int value, "mode" as octal int value, "modtime" as int-valued epoch seconds, and "isdir" as boolean value.
+Examples:
+stat("./mlr") gives {
+  "name": "mlr",
+  "size": 38391584,
+  "mode": 0755,
+  "modtime": 1715207874,
+  "isdir": false
+}
+stat("./mlr")["size"] gives 38391584
+
+ + ### system
 system  (class=system #args=1) Run command string, yielding its stdout minus final carriage return.
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md.in b/docs/src/reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md.in
index 4bb51082c..b535cd907 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md.in
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 # DSL built-in functions
 
-These are functions in the [Miller programming language](miller-programming-language.md)
-that you can call when you use `mlr put` and `mlr filter`. For example, when you type
-
+These are functions in the [Miller programming language](miller-programming-language.md) that you can call when you use `mlr put` and `mlr filter`. For example, when you type
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --icsv --opprint --from example.csv put '
   $color = toupper($color);
@@ -14,25 +12,12 @@ the `toupper` and `gsub` bits are _functions_.
 
 ## Overview
 
-At the command line, you can use `mlr -f` and `mlr -F` for information much
-like what's on this page.
+At the command line, you can use `mlr -f` and `mlr -F` for information much like what's on this page.
 
-Each function takes a specific number of arguments, as shown below, except for
-functions marked as variadic such as `min` and `max`. (The latter compute min
-and max of any number of arguments.) There is no notion of optional or
-default-on-absent arguments. All argument-passing is positional rather than by
-name; arguments are passed by value, not by reference.
+Each function takes a specific number of arguments, as shown below, except for functions marked as variadic, such as `min` and `max`. (The latter compute the min and max of any number of arguments.) There is no notion of optional or default-on-absent arguments. All argument-passing is positional rather than by name; arguments are passed by value, not by reference.
 
-At the command line, you can get a list of all functions using `mlr -f`, with
-details using `mlr -F`.  (Or, `mlr help usage-functions-by-class` to get
-details in the order shown on this page.) You can get detail for a given
-function using `mlr help function namegoeshere`, e.g.  `mlr help function
-gsub`.
+At the command line, you can get a list of all functions using `mlr -f`, with details using `mlr -F`.  (Or, `mlr help usage-functions-by-class` to get details in the order shown on this page.) You can get details for a given function using `mlr help function namegoeshere`, e.g., `mlr help function gsub`.
 
-Operators are listed here along with functions. In this case, the
-argument-count is the number of items involved in the infix operator, e.g. we
-say `x+y` so the details for the `+` operator say that its number of arguments
-is 2. Unary operators such as `!` and `~` show argument-count of 1; the ternary
-`? :` operator shows an argument-count of 3.
+Operators are listed here along with functions. In this case, the argument count refers to the number of items involved in the infix operator. For example, we say `x+y`, so the details for the `+` operator indicate that it has two arguments. Unary operators such as `!` and `~` show argument-count of 1; the ternary `? :` operator shows an argument count of 3.
 
 GENMD-RUN-CONTENT-GENERATOR(./mk-func-info.rb)
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-complexity.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-complexity.md
index 5fb579155..de97fa3f0 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-complexity.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-complexity.md
@@ -16,34 +16,9 @@ Quick links:
 
 # A note on the complexity of Miller's expression language
 
-One of Miller's strengths is its brevity: it's much quicker -- and less
-error-prone -- to type `mlr stats1 -a sum -f x,y -g a,b` than having to track
-summation variables as in `awk`, or using Miller's [out-of-stream
-variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#out-of-stream-variables). And the more
-language features Miller's put-DSL has (for-loops, if-statements, nested
-control structures, user-defined functions, etc.) then the *less* powerful it
-begins to seem: because of the other programming-language features it *doesn't*
-have (classes, exceptions, and so on).
+One of Miller's strengths is its brevity: it's much quicker -- and less error-prone -- to type `mlr stats1 -a sum -f x,y -g a,b` than having to track summation variables as in `awk`, or using Miller's [out-of-stream variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#out-of-stream-variables). And the more language features Miller's put-DSL has (for-loops, if-statements, nested control structures, user-defined functions, etc.), then the *less* powerful it begins to seem: because of the other programming-language features it *doesn't* have (classes, exceptions, and so on).
 
-When I was originally prototyping Miller in 2015, the primary decision I had
-was whether to hand-code in a low-level language like C or Rust or Go, with my
-own hand-rolled DSL, or whether to use a higher-level language (like Python or
-Lua or Nim) and let the `put` statements be handled by the implementation
-language's own `eval`: the implementation language would take the place of a
-DSL. Multiple performance experiments showed me I could get better throughput
-using the former, by a wide margin. So Miller is Go under the hood with a
-hand-rolled DSL.
+When I was initially prototyping Miller in 2015, the primary decision I had was whether to hand-code in a low-level language like C or Rust or Go, with my hand-rolled DSL, or whether to use a higher-level language (like Python or Lua or Nim) and let the `put` statements be handled by the implementation language's own `eval`: the implementation language would take the place of a DSL. Multiple performance experiments showed me I could get better throughput using the former, by a wide margin. So Miller is Go under the hood with a hand-rolled DSL.
 
-I do want to keep focusing on what Miller is good at -- concise notation, low
-latency, and high throughput -- and not add too much in terms of
-high-level-language features to the DSL.  That said, some sort of
-customizability is a basic thing to want. As of 4.1.0 we have recursive
-`for`/`while`/`if` [structures](reference-dsl-control-structures.md) on about
-the same complexity level as `awk`; as of 5.0.0 we have [user-defined
-functions](reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md) and [map-valued
-variables](reference-dsl-variables.md), again on about the same complexity level
-as `awk` along with optional type-declaration syntax; as of Miller 6 we have
-full support for [arrays](reference-main-arrays.md).  While I'm excited by these
-powerful language features, I hope to keep new features focused on Miller's
-sweet spot which is speed plus simplicity.
+I want to continue focusing on what Miller excels at — concise notation, low latency, and high throughput — and not add too many high-level language features to the DSL.  That said, some customizability is a basic thing to want. As of 4.1.0, we have recursive `for`/`while`/`if` [structures](reference-dsl-control-structures.md) on about the same complexity level as `awk`; as of 5.0.0, we have [user-defined functions](reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md) and [map-valued variables](reference-dsl-variables.md), again on about the same complexity level as `awk` along with optional type-declaration syntax; as of Miller 6, we have full support for [arrays](reference-main-arrays.md).  While I'm excited by these powerful language features, I hope to keep new features focused on Miller's sweet spot, which is speed plus simplicity.
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-complexity.md.in b/docs/src/reference-dsl-complexity.md.in
index 81251b436..3087e00c1 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-complexity.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-complexity.md.in
@@ -1,33 +1,8 @@
 # A note on the complexity of Miller's expression language
 
-One of Miller's strengths is its brevity: it's much quicker -- and less
-error-prone -- to type `mlr stats1 -a sum -f x,y -g a,b` than having to track
-summation variables as in `awk`, or using Miller's [out-of-stream
-variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#out-of-stream-variables). And the more
-language features Miller's put-DSL has (for-loops, if-statements, nested
-control structures, user-defined functions, etc.) then the *less* powerful it
-begins to seem: because of the other programming-language features it *doesn't*
-have (classes, exceptions, and so on).
+One of Miller's strengths is its brevity: it's much quicker -- and less error-prone -- to type `mlr stats1 -a sum -f x,y -g a,b` than having to track summation variables as in `awk`, or using Miller's [out-of-stream variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#out-of-stream-variables). And the more language features Miller's put-DSL has (for-loops, if-statements, nested control structures, user-defined functions, etc.), then the *less* powerful it begins to seem: because of the other programming-language features it *doesn't* have (classes, exceptions, and so on).
 
-When I was originally prototyping Miller in 2015, the primary decision I had
-was whether to hand-code in a low-level language like C or Rust or Go, with my
-own hand-rolled DSL, or whether to use a higher-level language (like Python or
-Lua or Nim) and let the `put` statements be handled by the implementation
-language's own `eval`: the implementation language would take the place of a
-DSL. Multiple performance experiments showed me I could get better throughput
-using the former, by a wide margin. So Miller is Go under the hood with a
-hand-rolled DSL.
+When I was initially prototyping Miller in 2015, the primary decision I had was whether to hand-code in a low-level language like C or Rust or Go, with my hand-rolled DSL, or whether to use a higher-level language (like Python or Lua or Nim) and let the `put` statements be handled by the implementation language's own `eval`: the implementation language would take the place of a DSL. Multiple performance experiments showed me I could get better throughput using the former, by a wide margin. So Miller is Go under the hood with a hand-rolled DSL.
 
-I do want to keep focusing on what Miller is good at -- concise notation, low
-latency, and high throughput -- and not add too much in terms of
-high-level-language features to the DSL.  That said, some sort of
-customizability is a basic thing to want. As of 4.1.0 we have recursive
-`for`/`while`/`if` [structures](reference-dsl-control-structures.md) on about
-the same complexity level as `awk`; as of 5.0.0 we have [user-defined
-functions](reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md) and [map-valued
-variables](reference-dsl-variables.md), again on about the same complexity level
-as `awk` along with optional type-declaration syntax; as of Miller 6 we have
-full support for [arrays](reference-main-arrays.md).  While I'm excited by these
-powerful language features, I hope to keep new features focused on Miller's
-sweet spot which is speed plus simplicity.
+I want to continue focusing on what Miller excels at — concise notation, low latency, and high throughput — and not add too many high-level language features to the DSL.  That said, some customizability is a basic thing to want. As of 4.1.0, we have recursive `for`/`while`/`if` [structures](reference-dsl-control-structures.md) on about the same complexity level as `awk`; as of 5.0.0, we have [user-defined functions](reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md) and [map-valued variables](reference-dsl-variables.md), again on about the same complexity level as `awk` along with optional type-declaration syntax; as of Miller 6, we have full support for [arrays](reference-main-arrays.md).  While I'm excited by these powerful language features, I hope to keep new features focused on Miller's sweet spot, which is speed plus simplicity.
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-control-structures.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-control-structures.md
index 16de01613..60bb52d95 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-control-structures.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-control-structures.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Quick links:
 
 ## Pattern-action blocks
 
-These are reminiscent of `awk` syntax.  They can be used to allow assignments to be done only when appropriate -- e.g. for math-function domain restrictions, regex-matching, and so on:
+These are reminiscent of `awk` syntax.  They can be used to allow assignments to be done only when appropriate -- e.g., for math-function domain restrictions, regex-matching, and so on:
 
 
 mlr cat data/put-gating-example-1.dkvp
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ a=some other name
 a=xyz_789,b=left_xyz,c=right_789
 
-This produces heteregenous output which Miller, of course, has no problems with (see [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md)). But if you want homogeneous output, the curly braces can be replaced with a semicolon between the expression and the body statements. This causes `put` to evaluate the boolean expression (along with any side effects, namely, regex-captures `\1`, `\2`, etc.) but doesn't use it as a criterion for whether subsequent assignments should be executed. Instead, subsequent assignments are done unconditionally: +This produces heterogeneous output which Miller, of course, has no problems with (see [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md)). But if you want homogeneous output, the curly braces can be replaced with a semicolon between the expression and the body statements. This causes `put` to evaluate the boolean expression (along with any side effects, namely, regex-captures `\1`, `\2`, etc.) but doesn't use it as a criterion for whether subsequent assignments should be executed. Instead, subsequent assignments are done unconditionally:
 mlr --opprint put '
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ records](operating-on-all-records.md) for some options.
 
 ## For-loops
 
-While Miller's `while` and `do-while` statements are much as in many other languages, `for` loops are more idiosyncratic to Miller. They are loops over key-value pairs, whether in stream records, out-of-stream variables, local variables, or map-literals: more reminiscent of `foreach`, as in (for example) PHP. There are **for-loops over map keys** and **for-loops over key-value tuples**.  Additionally, Miller has a **C-style triple-for loop** with initialize, test, and update statements. Each is described below.
+While Miller's `while` and `do-while` statements are much like those in many other languages, `for` loops are more idiosyncratic to Miller. They are loops over key-value pairs, whether in stream records, out-of-stream variables, local variables, or map-literals: more reminiscent of `foreach`, as in (for example) PHP. There are **for-loops over map keys** and **for-loops over key-value tuples**.  Additionally, Miller has a **C-style triple-for loop** with initialize, test, and update statements. Each is described below.
 
 As with `while` and `do-while`, a `break` or `continue` within nested control structures will propagate to the innermost loop enclosing them, if any, and a `break` or `continue` outside a loop is a syntax error that will be flagged as soon as the expression is parsed, before any input records are ingested.
 
@@ -260,11 +260,9 @@ value: true valuetype: bool
 
 ### Key-value for-loops
 
-For [maps](reference-main-maps.md), the first loop variable is the key and the
-second is the value; for [arrays](reference-main-arrays.md), the first loop
-variable is the (1-up) array index and the second is the value.
+For [maps](reference-main-maps.md), the first loop variable is the key, and the second is the value. For [arrays](reference-main-arrays.md), the first loop variable is the (1-based) array index, and the second is the value.
 
-Single-level keys may be gotten at using either `for(k,v)` or `for((k),v)`; multi-level keys may be gotten at using `for((k1,k2,k3),v)` and so on.  The `v` variable will be bound to a scalar value (non-array/non-map) if the map stops at that level, or to a map-valued or array-valued variable if the map goes deeper. If the map isn't deep enough then the loop body won't be executed.
+Single-level keys may be obtained using either `for(k,v)` or `for((k),v)`; multi-level keys may be obtained using `for((k1,k2,k3),v)` and so on.  The `v` variable will be bound to a scalar value (non-array/non-map) if the map stops at that level, or to a map-valued or array-valued variable if the map goes deeper. If the map isn't deep enough then the loop body won't be executed.
 
 
 cat data/for-srec-example.tbl
@@ -333,7 +331,7 @@ eks wye 4 0.381399 0.134188 4.515587           18.062348
 wye pan 5 0.573288 0.863624 6.4369119999999995 25.747647999999998
 
-It can be confusing to modify the stream record while iterating over a copy of it, so instead you might find it simpler to use a local variable in the loop and only update the stream record after the loop: +It can be confusing to modify the stream record while iterating over a copy of it, so instead, you might find it simpler to use a local variable in the loop and only update the stream record after the loop:
 mlr --from data/small --opprint put '
@@ -355,7 +353,7 @@ eks wye 4 0.381399 0.134188 4.515587
 wye pan 5 0.573288 0.863624 6.4369119999999995
 
-You can also start iterating on sub-maps of an out-of-stream or local variable; you can loop over nested keys; you can loop over all out-of-stream variables. The bound variables are bound to a copy of the sub-map as it was before the loop started. The sub-map is specified by square-bracketed indices after `in`, and additional deeper indices are bound to loop key-variables. The terminal values are bound to the loop value-variable whenever the keys are not too shallow. The value-variable may refer to a terminal (string, number) or it may be map-valued if the map goes deeper. Example indexing is as follows: +You can also start iterating on sub-maps of an out-of-stream or local variable; you can loop over nested keys; you can loop over all out-of-stream variables. The bound variables are bound to a copy of the sub-map as it was before the loop started. The sub-map is specified by square-bracketed indices after `in`, and additional deeper indices are bound to loop key variables. The terminal values are bound to the loop value variable whenever the keys are not too shallow. The value variable may refer to a terminal (string, number) or it may be map-valued if the map goes deeper. Example indexing is as follows:
 # Parentheses are optional for single key:
@@ -516,15 +514,15 @@ wye pan 5 0.573288 0.863624 15   31
 
 Notes:
 
-* In `for (start; continuation; update) { body }`, the start, continuation, and update statements may be empty, single statements, or multiple comma-separated statements. If the continuation is empty (e.g. `for(i=1;;i+=1)`) it defaults to true.
+* In `for (start; continuation; update) { body }`, the start, continuation, and update statements may be empty, single statements, or multiple comma-separated statements. If the continuation is empty (e.g. `for(i=1;;i+=1)`), it defaults to true.
 
 * In particular, you may use `$`-variables and/or `@`-variables in the start, continuation, and/or update steps (as well as the body, of course).
 
-* The typedecls such as `int` or `num` are optional.  If a typedecl is provided (for a local variable), it binds a variable scoped to the for-loop regardless of whether a same-name variable is present in outer scope. If a typedecl is not provided, then the variable is scoped to the for-loop if no same-name variable is present in outer scope, or if a same-name variable is present in outer scope then it is modified.
+* The typedecls such as `int` or `num` are optional.  If a typedecl is provided (for a local variable), it binds a variable scoped to the for-loop regardless of whether a same-name variable is present in the outer scope. If a typedecl is not provided, then the variable is scoped to the for-loop if no same-name variable is present in the outer scope, or if a same-name variable is present in the outer scope, then it is modified.
 
 * Miller has no `++` or `--` operators.
 
-* As with all `for`/`if`/`while` statements in Miller, the curly braces are required even if the body is a single statement, or empty.
+* As with all `for`/`if`/`while` statements in Miller, the curly braces are required even if the body is a single statement or empty.
 
 ## Begin/end blocks
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-control-structures.md.in b/docs/src/reference-dsl-control-structures.md.in
index b7161804c..caffa9bdf 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-control-structures.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-control-structures.md.in
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Pattern-action blocks
 
-These are reminiscent of `awk` syntax.  They can be used to allow assignments to be done only when appropriate -- e.g. for math-function domain restrictions, regex-matching, and so on:
+These are reminiscent of `awk` syntax.  They can be used to allow assignments to be done only when appropriate -- e.g., for math-function domain restrictions, regex-matching, and so on:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr cat data/put-gating-example-1.dkvp
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ mlr put '
   data/put-gating-example-2.dkvp
 GENMD-EOF
 
-This produces heteregenous output which Miller, of course, has no problems with (see [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md)).  But if you want homogeneous output, the curly braces can be replaced with a semicolon between the expression and the body statements.  This causes `put` to evaluate the boolean expression (along with any side effects, namely, regex-captures `\1`, `\2`, etc.) but doesn't use it as a criterion for whether subsequent assignments should be executed. Instead, subsequent assignments are done unconditionally:
+This produces heterogeneous output which Miller, of course, has no problems with (see [Record Heterogeneity](record-heterogeneity.md)).  But if you want homogeneous output, the curly braces can be replaced with a semicolon between the expression and the body statements.  This causes `put` to evaluate the boolean expression (along with any side effects, namely, regex-captures `\1`, `\2`, etc.) but doesn't use it as a criterion for whether subsequent assignments should be executed. Instead, subsequent assignments are done unconditionally:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --opprint put '
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ records](operating-on-all-records.md) for some options.
 
 ## For-loops
 
-While Miller's `while` and `do-while` statements are much as in many other languages, `for` loops are more idiosyncratic to Miller. They are loops over key-value pairs, whether in stream records, out-of-stream variables, local variables, or map-literals: more reminiscent of `foreach`, as in (for example) PHP. There are **for-loops over map keys** and **for-loops over key-value tuples**.  Additionally, Miller has a **C-style triple-for loop** with initialize, test, and update statements. Each is described below.
+While Miller's `while` and `do-while` statements are much like those in many other languages, `for` loops are more idiosyncratic to Miller. They are loops over key-value pairs, whether in stream records, out-of-stream variables, local variables, or map-literals: more reminiscent of `foreach`, as in (for example) PHP. There are **for-loops over map keys** and **for-loops over key-value tuples**.  Additionally, Miller has a **C-style triple-for loop** with initialize, test, and update statements. Each is described below.
 
 As with `while` and `do-while`, a `break` or `continue` within nested control structures will propagate to the innermost loop enclosing them, if any, and a `break` or `continue` outside a loop is a syntax error that will be flagged as soon as the expression is parsed, before any input records are ingested.
 
@@ -165,11 +165,9 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 ### Key-value for-loops
 
-For [maps](reference-main-maps.md), the first loop variable is the key and the
-second is the value; for [arrays](reference-main-arrays.md), the first loop
-variable is the (1-up) array index and the second is the value.
+For [maps](reference-main-maps.md), the first loop variable is the key, and the second is the value. For [arrays](reference-main-arrays.md), the first loop variable is the (1-based) array index, and the second is the value.
 
-Single-level keys may be gotten at using either `for(k,v)` or `for((k),v)`; multi-level keys may be gotten at using `for((k1,k2,k3),v)` and so on.  The `v` variable will be bound to a scalar value (non-array/non-map) if the map stops at that level, or to a map-valued or array-valued variable if the map goes deeper. If the map isn't deep enough then the loop body won't be executed.
+Single-level keys may be obtained using either `for(k,v)` or `for((k),v)`; multi-level keys may be obtained using `for((k1,k2,k3),v)` and so on.  The `v` variable will be bound to a scalar value (non-array/non-map) if the map stops at that level, or to a map-valued or array-valued variable if the map goes deeper. If the map isn't deep enough then the loop body won't be executed.
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 cat data/for-srec-example.tbl
@@ -210,7 +208,7 @@ mlr --from data/small --opprint put '
 '
 GENMD-EOF
 
-It can be confusing to modify the stream record while iterating over a copy of it, so instead you might find it simpler to use a local variable in the loop and only update the stream record after the loop:
+It can be confusing to modify the stream record while iterating over a copy of it, so instead, you might find it simpler to use a local variable in the loop and only update the stream record after the loop:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --from data/small --opprint put '
@@ -224,7 +222,7 @@ mlr --from data/small --opprint put '
 '
 GENMD-EOF
 
-You can also start iterating on sub-maps of an out-of-stream or local variable; you can loop over nested keys; you can loop over all out-of-stream variables.  The bound variables are bound to a copy of the sub-map as it was before the loop started.  The sub-map is specified by square-bracketed indices after `in`, and additional deeper indices are bound to loop key-variables. The terminal values are bound to the loop value-variable whenever the keys are not too shallow. The value-variable may refer to a terminal (string, number) or it may be map-valued if the map goes deeper. Example indexing is as follows:
+You can also start iterating on sub-maps of an out-of-stream or local variable; you can loop over nested keys; you can loop over all out-of-stream variables.  The bound variables are bound to a copy of the sub-map as it was before the loop started.  The sub-map is specified by square-bracketed indices after `in`, and additional deeper indices are bound to loop key variables. The terminal values are bound to the loop value variable whenever the keys are not too shallow. The value variable may refer to a terminal (string, number) or it may be map-valued if the map goes deeper. Example indexing is as follows:
 
 GENMD-INCLUDE-ESCAPED(data/for-oosvar-example-0a.txt)
 
@@ -333,15 +331,15 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 Notes:
 
-* In `for (start; continuation; update) { body }`, the start, continuation, and update statements may be empty, single statements, or multiple comma-separated statements. If the continuation is empty (e.g. `for(i=1;;i+=1)`) it defaults to true.
+* In `for (start; continuation; update) { body }`, the start, continuation, and update statements may be empty, single statements, or multiple comma-separated statements. If the continuation is empty (e.g. `for(i=1;;i+=1)`), it defaults to true.
 
 * In particular, you may use `$`-variables and/or `@`-variables in the start, continuation, and/or update steps (as well as the body, of course).
 
-* The typedecls such as `int` or `num` are optional.  If a typedecl is provided (for a local variable), it binds a variable scoped to the for-loop regardless of whether a same-name variable is present in outer scope. If a typedecl is not provided, then the variable is scoped to the for-loop if no same-name variable is present in outer scope, or if a same-name variable is present in outer scope then it is modified.
+* The typedecls such as `int` or `num` are optional.  If a typedecl is provided (for a local variable), it binds a variable scoped to the for-loop regardless of whether a same-name variable is present in the outer scope. If a typedecl is not provided, then the variable is scoped to the for-loop if no same-name variable is present in the outer scope, or if a same-name variable is present in the outer scope, then it is modified.
 
 * Miller has no `++` or `--` operators.
 
-* As with all `for`/`if`/`while` statements in Miller, the curly braces are required even if the body is a single statement, or empty.
+* As with all `for`/`if`/`while` statements in Miller, the curly braces are required even if the body is a single statement or empty.
 
 ## Begin/end blocks
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-filter-statements.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-filter-statements.md
index 0a2de3dd3..3d2d733f2 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-filter-statements.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-filter-statements.md
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ red,square,true,2,15,79.2778,0.0130
 red,circle,true,3,16,13.8103,2.9010
 
-The former, of course, is a little easier to type. For another example: +The former is a little easier to type. For another example:
 mlr --csv put '@running_sum += $quantity; filter @running_sum > 500' example.csv
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-filter-statements.md.in b/docs/src/reference-dsl-filter-statements.md.in
index c3acd41e1..7f363593e 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-filter-statements.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-filter-statements.md.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --csv put 'filter NR==2 || NR==3' example.csv
 GENMD-EOF
 
-The former, of course, is a little easier to type. For another example:
+The former is a little easier to type. For another example:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --csv put '@running_sum += $quantity; filter @running_sum > 500' example.csv
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md
index d40cfd1e7..6e41bd281 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md
@@ -29,23 +29,15 @@ As of [Miller 6](new-in-miller-6.md) you can use
 intuitive operations on arrays and maps, as an alternative to things which
 would otherwise require for-loops.
 
-See also the [`get_keys`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#get_keys) and
-[`get_values`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#get_values) functions which,
-when given a map, return an array of its keys or an array of its values,
-respectively.
+See also the [`get_keys`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#get_keys) and [`get_values`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#get_values) functions which, when given a map, return an array of its keys or an array of its values, respectively.
 
 ## select
 
-The [`select`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#select) function takes a map
-or array as its first argument and a function as second argument.  It includes
-each input element in the output if the function returns true.
+The [`select`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#select) function takes a map or array as its first argument and a function as its second argument.  It includes each input element in the output if the function returns true.
 
-For arrays, that function should take one argument, for array element; for
-maps, it should take two, for map-element key and value. In either case it
-should return a boolean.
+For arrays, that function should take one argument, for an array element; for maps, it should take two, for a map element key and value. In either case, it should return a boolean.
 
-A perhaps helpful analogy: the `select` function is to arrays and maps as the
-[`filter`](reference-verbs.md#filter) is to records.
+A perhaps helpful analogy: the `select` function is to arrays and maps as the [`filter`](reference-verbs.md#filter) is to records.
 
 Array examples:
 
@@ -123,16 +115,11 @@ Values with last digit >= 5:
 
 ## apply
 
-The [`apply`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#apply) function takes a map
-or array as its first argument and a function as second argument.  It applies
-the function to each element of the array or map.
+The [`apply`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#apply) function takes a map or array as its first argument and a function as its second argument.  It applies the function to each element of the array or map.
 
-For arrays, the function should take one argument, for array element; it should
-return a new element. For maps, it should take two, for map-element key and
-value. It should return a new key-value pair (i.e. a single-entry map).
+For arrays, the function should take one argument, representing an array element, and return a new element. For maps, it should take two, for the map element key and value. It should return a new key-value pair (i.e., a single-entry map).
 
-A perhaps helpful analogy: the `apply` function is to arrays and maps as the
-[`put`](reference-verbs.md#put) is to records.
+A perhaps helpful analogy: the `apply` function is to arrays and maps as the [`put`](reference-verbs.md#put) is to records.
 
 Array examples:
 
@@ -232,17 +219,11 @@ Same, with upcased keys:
 
 ## reduce
 
-The [`reduce`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#reduce) function takes a map
-or array as its first argument and a function as second argument. It accumulates entries into a final
-output -- for example, sum or product.
+The [`reduce`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#reduce) function takes a map or array as its first argument and a function as its second argument. It accumulates entries into a final output, such as a sum or product.
 
-For arrays, the function should take two arguments, for accumulated value and
-array element; for maps, it should take four, for accumulated key and value
-and map-element key and value. In either case it should return the updated
-accumulator.
+For arrays, the function should take two arguments, for the accumulated value and the array element; for maps, it should take four, for the accumulated key and value, and the map-element key and value. In either case it should return the updated accumulator.
 
-The start value for the accumulator is the first element for arrays, or the
-first element's key-value pair for maps.
+The start value for the accumulator is the first element for arrays, or the first element's key-value pair for maps.
 
 
 mlr -n put '
@@ -370,10 +351,7 @@ String-join of values:
 
 ## fold
 
-The [`fold`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#fold) function is the same as
-`reduce`, except that instead of the starting value for the accumulation being
-taken from the first entry of the array/map, you specify it as the third
-argument.
+The [`fold`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#fold) function is the same as `reduce`, except that instead of the starting value for the accumulation being taken from the first entry of the array/map, you specify it as the third argument.
 
 
 mlr -n put '
@@ -469,22 +447,13 @@ Sum of values with fold and 1000000 initial value:
 
 ## sort
 
-The [`sort`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#sort) function takes a map or
-array as its first argument, and it can take a function as second argument.
-Unlike the other higher-order functions, the second argument can be omitted
-when the natural ordering is desired -- ordered by array element for arrays, or by
-key for maps.
+The [`sort`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#sort) function takes a map or array as its first argument, and it can take a function as its second argument. Unlike the other higher-order functions, the second argument can be omitted when the natural ordering is desired -- ordered by array element for arrays, or by key for maps.
 
-As a second option, character flags such as `r` for reverse or `c` for
-case-folded lexical sort can be supplied as the second argument.
+As a second option, character flags such as `r` for reverse or `c` for case-folded lexical sort can be supplied as the second argument.
 
 As a third option, a function can be supplied as the second argument.
 
-For arrays, that function should take two arguments `a` and `b`, returning a
-negative, zero, or positive number as `ab` respectively.
-For maps, the function should take four arguments `ak`, `av`, `bk`, and `bv`,
-again returning negative, zero, or positive, using `a` and `b`'s keys and
-values.
+For arrays, that function should take two arguments `a` and `b`, returning a negative, zero, or positive number as `ab` respectively. For maps, the function should take four arguments `ak`, `av`, `bk`, and `bv`, again returning negative, zero, or positive, using `a`'s and `b`'s keys and values.
 
 Array examples:
 
@@ -703,9 +672,7 @@ red    square   false 6 64    77.1991  9.5310
 
 ## Combined examples
 
-Using a paradigm from the [page on operating on all
-records](operating-on-all-records.md), we can retain a column from the input
-data as an array, then apply some higher-order functions to it:
+Using a paradigm from the [page on operating on all records](operating-on-all-records.md), we can retain a column from the input data as an array, then apply some higher-order functions to it:
 
 
 mlr --c2p cat example.csv
@@ -776,7 +743,7 @@ Sorted, then cubed, then summed:
 
 ### Remember return
 
-From other languages it's easy to accidentally write
+From other languages, it's easy to write accidentally
 
 
 mlr -n put 'end { print select([1,2,3,4,5], func (e) { e >= 3 })}'
@@ -833,7 +800,7 @@ but this does:
 2187
 
-### Built-in functions currently unsupported as arguments +### Built-in functions are currently unsupported as arguments [Built-in functions](reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md) are, as of September 2021, a bit separate from [user-defined diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md.in b/docs/src/reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md.in index ed044c006..de5ccbdf9 100644 --- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md.in +++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md.in @@ -13,23 +13,15 @@ As of [Miller 6](new-in-miller-6.md) you can use intuitive operations on arrays and maps, as an alternative to things which would otherwise require for-loops. -See also the [`get_keys`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#get_keys) and -[`get_values`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#get_values) functions which, -when given a map, return an array of its keys or an array of its values, -respectively. +See also the [`get_keys`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#get_keys) and [`get_values`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#get_values) functions which, when given a map, return an array of its keys or an array of its values, respectively. ## select -The [`select`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#select) function takes a map -or array as its first argument and a function as second argument. It includes -each input element in the output if the function returns true. +The [`select`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#select) function takes a map or array as its first argument and a function as its second argument. It includes each input element in the output if the function returns true. -For arrays, that function should take one argument, for array element; for -maps, it should take two, for map-element key and value. In either case it -should return a boolean. +For arrays, that function should take one argument, for an array element; for maps, it should take two, for a map element key and value. In either case, it should return a boolean. -A perhaps helpful analogy: the `select` function is to arrays and maps as the -[`filter`](reference-verbs.md#filter) is to records. +A perhaps helpful analogy: the `select` function is to arrays and maps as the [`filter`](reference-verbs.md#filter) is to records. Array examples: @@ -75,16 +67,11 @@ GENMD-EOF ## apply -The [`apply`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#apply) function takes a map -or array as its first argument and a function as second argument. It applies -the function to each element of the array or map. +The [`apply`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#apply) function takes a map or array as its first argument and a function as its second argument. It applies the function to each element of the array or map. -For arrays, the function should take one argument, for array element; it should -return a new element. For maps, it should take two, for map-element key and -value. It should return a new key-value pair (i.e. a single-entry map). +For arrays, the function should take one argument, representing an array element, and return a new element. For maps, it should take two, for the map element key and value. It should return a new key-value pair (i.e., a single-entry map). -A perhaps helpful analogy: the `apply` function is to arrays and maps as the -[`put`](reference-verbs.md#put) is to records. +A perhaps helpful analogy: the `apply` function is to arrays and maps as the [`put`](reference-verbs.md#put) is to records. Array examples: @@ -134,17 +121,11 @@ GENMD-EOF ## reduce -The [`reduce`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#reduce) function takes a map -or array as its first argument and a function as second argument. It accumulates entries into a final -output -- for example, sum or product. +The [`reduce`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#reduce) function takes a map or array as its first argument and a function as its second argument. It accumulates entries into a final output, such as a sum or product. -For arrays, the function should take two arguments, for accumulated value and -array element; for maps, it should take four, for accumulated key and value -and map-element key and value. In either case it should return the updated -accumulator. +For arrays, the function should take two arguments, for the accumulated value and the array element; for maps, it should take four, for the accumulated key and value, and the map-element key and value. In either case it should return the updated accumulator. -The start value for the accumulator is the first element for arrays, or the -first element's key-value pair for maps. +The start value for the accumulator is the first element for arrays, or the first element's key-value pair for maps. GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr -n put ' @@ -213,10 +194,7 @@ GENMD-EOF ## fold -The [`fold`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#fold) function is the same as -`reduce`, except that instead of the starting value for the accumulation being -taken from the first entry of the array/map, you specify it as the third -argument. +The [`fold`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#fold) function is the same as `reduce`, except that instead of the starting value for the accumulation being taken from the first entry of the array/map, you specify it as the third argument. GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr -n put ' @@ -269,22 +247,13 @@ GENMD-EOF ## sort -The [`sort`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#sort) function takes a map or -array as its first argument, and it can take a function as second argument. -Unlike the other higher-order functions, the second argument can be omitted -when the natural ordering is desired -- ordered by array element for arrays, or by -key for maps. +The [`sort`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#sort) function takes a map or array as its first argument, and it can take a function as its second argument. Unlike the other higher-order functions, the second argument can be omitted when the natural ordering is desired -- ordered by array element for arrays, or by key for maps. -As a second option, character flags such as `r` for reverse or `c` for -case-folded lexical sort can be supplied as the second argument. +As a second option, character flags such as `r` for reverse or `c` for case-folded lexical sort can be supplied as the second argument. As a third option, a function can be supplied as the second argument. -For arrays, that function should take two arguments `a` and `b`, returning a -negative, zero, or positive number as `ab` respectively. -For maps, the function should take four arguments `ak`, `av`, `bk`, and `bv`, -again returning negative, zero, or positive, using `a` and `b`'s keys and -values. +For arrays, that function should take two arguments `a` and `b`, returning a negative, zero, or positive number as `ab` respectively. For maps, the function should take four arguments `ak`, `av`, `bk`, and `bv`, again returning negative, zero, or positive, using `a`'s and `b`'s keys and values. Array examples: @@ -379,9 +348,7 @@ GENMD-EOF ## Combined examples -Using a paradigm from the [page on operating on all -records](operating-on-all-records.md), we can retain a column from the input -data as an array, then apply some higher-order functions to it: +Using a paradigm from the [page on operating on all records](operating-on-all-records.md), we can retain a column from the input data as an array, then apply some higher-order functions to it: GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --c2p cat example.csv @@ -426,7 +393,7 @@ GENMD-EOF ### Remember return -From other languages it's easy to accidentally write +From other languages, it's easy to write accidentally GENMD-RUN-COMMAND-TOLERATING-ERROR mlr -n put 'end { print select([1,2,3,4,5], func (e) { e >= 3 })}' @@ -465,7 +432,7 @@ mlr -n put ' ' GENMD-EOF -### Built-in functions currently unsupported as arguments +### Built-in functions are currently unsupported as arguments [Built-in functions](reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md) are, as of September 2021, a bit separate from [user-defined diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md index 921a02913..cdba1ca55 100644 --- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md +++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Operators are listed on the [DSL built-in functions page](reference-dsl-builtin- ## Operator precedence -Operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence, highest first. +Operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence, from highest to lowest. | Operators | Associativity | |-------------------------------|---------------| @@ -46,14 +46,13 @@ Operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence, highest first. | `? :` | right to left | | `=` | N/A for Miller (there is no $a=$b=$c) | -See also the [section on parsing and operator precedence in the REPL](repl.md#parsing-and-operator-precedence) -for information on how to examine operator precedence interactively. +See also the [section on parsing and operator precedence in the REPL](repl.md#parsing-and-operator-precedence) for information on how to examine operator precedence interactively. ## Operator and function semantics * Functions are often pass-throughs straight to the system-standard Go libraries. -* The [`min`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#min) and [`max`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#max) functions are different from other multi-argument functions which return null if any of their inputs are null: for [`min`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#min) and [`max`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#max), by contrast, if one argument is absent-null, the other is returned. Empty-null loses min or max against numeric or boolean; empty-null is less than any other string. +* The [`min`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#min) and [`max`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#max) functions are different from other multi-argument functions, which return null if any of their inputs are null: for [`min`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#min) and [`max`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#max), by contrast, if one argument is absent-null, the other is returned. Empty-null loses min or max against numeric or boolean; empty-null is less than any other string. * Symmetrically with respect to the bitwise OR, AND, and XOR operators [`|`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#bitwise-or), @@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ for information on how to examine operator precedence interactively. The main use for the `.` operator is for string concatenation: `"abc" . "def"` is `"abc.def"`. -However, in Miller 6 it has optional use for map traversal. Example: +However, in Miller 6, it has an optional use for map traversal. Example:
 cat data/server-log.json
@@ -109,8 +108,6 @@ However, in Miller 6 it has optional use for map traversal. Example:
 
 bar.baz
 bar.baz
-[
-]
 
This also works on the left-hand sides of assignment statements: @@ -148,7 +145,7 @@ This also works on the left-hand sides of assignment statements: A few caveats: -* This is why `.` has higher precedece than `+` in the table above -- in Miller 5 and below, where `.` was only used for concatenation, it had the same precedence as `+`. So you can now do this: +* This is why `.` has higher precedence than `+` in the table above -- in Miller 5 and below, where `.` was only used for concatenation, it had the same precedence as `+`. So you can now do this:
 mlr --json --from data/server-log.json put -q '
@@ -157,8 +154,6 @@ A few caveats:
 
 6989
-[
-]
 
* However (awkwardly), if you want to use `.` for map-traversal as well as string-concatenation in the same statement, you'll need to insert parentheses, as the default associativity is left-to-right: @@ -170,8 +165,6 @@ A few caveats:
 (error)
-[
-]
 
@@ -181,6 +174,4 @@ A few caveats:
 
 GET -- api/check
-[
-]
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md.in b/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md.in index 73a92d9e1..a4b0322f4 100644 --- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md.in +++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-operators.md.in @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Operators are listed on the [DSL built-in functions page](reference-dsl-builtin- ## Operator precedence -Operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence, highest first. +Operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence, from highest to lowest. | Operators | Associativity | |-------------------------------|---------------| @@ -30,14 +30,13 @@ Operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence, highest first. | `? :` | right to left | | `=` | N/A for Miller (there is no $a=$b=$c) | -See also the [section on parsing and operator precedence in the REPL](repl.md#parsing-and-operator-precedence) -for information on how to examine operator precedence interactively. +See also the [section on parsing and operator precedence in the REPL](repl.md#parsing-and-operator-precedence) for information on how to examine operator precedence interactively. ## Operator and function semantics * Functions are often pass-throughs straight to the system-standard Go libraries. -* The [`min`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#min) and [`max`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#max) functions are different from other multi-argument functions which return null if any of their inputs are null: for [`min`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#min) and [`max`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#max), by contrast, if one argument is absent-null, the other is returned. Empty-null loses min or max against numeric or boolean; empty-null is less than any other string. +* The [`min`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#min) and [`max`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#max) functions are different from other multi-argument functions, which return null if any of their inputs are null: for [`min`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#min) and [`max`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#max), by contrast, if one argument is absent-null, the other is returned. Empty-null loses min or max against numeric or boolean; empty-null is less than any other string. * Symmetrically with respect to the bitwise OR, AND, and XOR operators [`|`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#bitwise-or), @@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ for information on how to examine operator precedence interactively. The main use for the `.` operator is for string concatenation: `"abc" . "def"` is `"abc.def"`. -However, in Miller 6 it has optional use for map traversal. Example: +However, in Miller 6, it has an optional use for map traversal. Example: GENMD-RUN-COMMAND cat data/server-log.json @@ -78,7 +77,7 @@ GENMD-EOF A few caveats: -* This is why `.` has higher precedece than `+` in the table above -- in Miller 5 and below, where `.` was only used for concatenation, it had the same precedence as `+`. So you can now do this: +* This is why `.` has higher precedence than `+` in the table above -- in Miller 5 and below, where `.` was only used for concatenation, it had the same precedence as `+`. So you can now do this: GENMD-RUN-COMMAND mlr --json --from data/server-log.json put -q ' diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-output-statements.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-output-statements.md index 0984b1fd5..cca9fc4ea 100644 --- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-output-statements.md +++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-output-statements.md @@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ You can **output** variable-values or expressions in **five ways**: * Use **emit1**/**emit**/**emitp**/**emitf** to send out-of-stream variables' current values to the output record stream, e.g. `@sum += $x; emit1 @sum` which produces an extra record such as `sum=3.1648382`. These records, just like records from input file(s), participate in downstream [then-chaining](reference-main-then-chaining.md) to other verbs. -* Use the **print** or **eprint** keywords which immediately print an expression *directly to standard output or standard error*, respectively. Note that `dump`, `edump`, `print`, and `eprint` don't output records which participate in `then`-chaining; rather, they're just immediate prints to stdout/stderr. The `printn` and `eprintn` keywords are the same except that they don't print final newlines. Additionally, you can print to a specified file instead of stdout/stderr. +* Use the **print** or **eprint** keywords which immediately print an expression *directly to standard output or standard error*, respectively. Note that `dump`, `edump`, `print`, and `eprint` don't output records that participate in `then`-chaining; rather, they're just immediate prints to stdout/stderr. The `printn` and `eprintn` keywords are the same except that they don't print final newlines. Additionally, you can print to a specified file instead of stdout/stderr. * Use the **dump** or **edump** keywords, which *immediately print all out-of-stream variables as a JSON data structure to the standard output or standard error* (respectively). -* Use **tee** which formats the current stream record (not just an arbitrary string as with **print**) to a specific file. +* Use **tee**, which formats the current stream record (not just an arbitrary string as with **print**) to a specific file. -For the first two options you are populating the output-records stream which feeds into the next verb in a `then`-chain (if any), or which otherwise is formatted for output using `--o...` flags. +For the first two options, you are populating the output-records stream which feeds into the next verb in a `then`-chain (if any), or which otherwise is formatted for output using `--o...` flags. -For the last three options you are sending output directly to standard output, standard error, or a file. +For the last three options, you are sending output directly to standard output, standard error, or a file. ## Print statements @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ The `print` statement is perhaps self-explanatory, but with a few light caveats: * There are four variants: `print` goes to stdout with final newline, `printn` goes to stdout without final newline (you can include one using "\n" in your output string), `eprint` goes to stderr with final newline, and `eprintn` goes to stderr without final newline. -* Output goes directly to stdout/stderr, respectively: data produced this way do not go downstream to the next verb in a `then`-chain. (Use `emit` for that.) +* Output goes directly to stdout/stderr, respectively: data produced this way does not go downstream to the next verb in a `then`-chain. (Use `emit` for that.) * Print statements are for strings (`print "hello"`), or things which can be made into strings: numbers (`print 3`, `print $a + $b`), or concatenations thereof (`print "a + b = " . ($a + $b)`). Maps (in `$*`, map-valued out-of-stream or local variables, and map literals) as well as arrays are printed as JSON. @@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ The `dump` statement is for printing expressions, including maps, directly to st * There are two variants: `dump` prints to stdout; `edump` prints to stderr. -* Output goes directly to stdout/stderr, respectively: data produced this way do not go downstream to the next verb in a `then`-chain. (Use `emit` for that.) +* Output goes directly to stdout/stderr, respectively: data produced this way does not go downstream to the next verb in a `then`-chain. (Use `emit` for that.) -* You can use `dump` to output single strings, numbers, or expressions including map-valued data. Map-valued data are printed as JSON. +* You can use `dump` to output single strings, numbers, or expressions including map-valued data. Map-valued data is printed as JSON. * If you use `dump` (or `edump`) with no arguments, you get a JSON structure representing the current values of all out-of-stream variables. @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ The `dump` statement is for printing expressions, including maps, directly to st Records produced by a `mlr put` go downstream to the next verb in your `then`-chain, if any, or otherwise to standard output. If you want to additionally copy out records to files, you can do that using `tee`. -The syntax is, by example: +The syntax is, for example:
 mlr --from myfile.dat put 'tee > "tap.dat", $*' then sort -n index
@@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ The syntax is, by example:
 
 First is `tee >`, then the filename expression (which can be an expression such as `"tap.".$a.".dat"`), then a comma, then `$*`. (Nothing else but `$*` is teeable.)
 
-You can also write to a variable file name -- for example, you can split a
-single file into multiple ones on field names:
+You can also write to a variable file name -- for example, you can split a single file into multiple ones on field names:
 
 
 mlr --csv cat example.csv
@@ -324,26 +323,12 @@ There are four variants: `emit1`, `emitf`, `emit`, and `emitp`. These are used
 to insert new records into the record stream -- or, optionally, redirect them
 to files.
 
-Keep in mind that out-of-stream variables are a nested, multi-level
-[map](reference-main-maps.md) (directly viewable as JSON using `dump`), while
-Miller record values are as well during processing -- but records may be
-flattened down for output to tabular formats. See the page [Flatten/unflatten:
-JSON vs. tabular formats](flatten-unflatten.md) for more information.
+Keep in mind that out-of-stream variables are a nested, multi-level [map](reference-main-maps.md) (directly viewable as JSON using `dump`), while Miller record values are as well during processing -- but records may be flattened down for output to tabular formats. See the page [Flatten/unflatten: JSON vs. tabular formats](flatten-unflatten.md) for more information.
 
-* You can use `emit1` to emit any map-valued expression, including `$*`,
-  map-valued out-of-stream variables, the entire out-of-stream-variable
-  collection `@*`, map-valued local variables, map literals, or map-valued
-  function return values.
-* For `emit`, `emitp`, and `emitf`, you can emit map-valued local variables,
-  map-valued field attributes (with `$`), map-va out-of-stream variables (with
-  `@`), `$*`, `@*`, or map literals (with outermost `{...}`) -- but not arbitrary
-  expressions which evaluate to map (such as function return values).
+* You can use `emit1` to emit any map-valued expression, including `$*`, map-valued out-of-stream variables, the entire out-of-stream-variable collection `@*`, map-valued local variables, map literals, or map-valued function return values.
+* For `emit`, `emitp`, and `emitf`, you can emit map-valued local variables, map-valued field attributes (with `$`), map-va out-of-stream variables (with `@`), `$*`, `@*`, or map literals (with outermost `{...}`) -- but not arbitrary expressions which evaluate to map (such as function return values).
 
-The reason for this is part historical and part technical. As we'll see below,
-you can do lots of syntactical things with `emit`, `emitp`, and `emitf`,
-including printing them side-by-side, index them, redirect the output to files,
-etc. What this means syntactically is that Miller's parser needs to handle all
-sorts of commas, parentheses, and so on:
+The reason for this is partly historical and partly technical. As we'll see below, you can do lots of syntactical things with `emit`, `emitp`, and `emitf`, including printing them side-by-side, indexing them, redirecting the output to files, etc. What this means syntactically is that Miller's parser needs to handle all sorts of commas, parentheses, and so on:
 
 
   emitf @count, @sum
@@ -352,12 +337,7 @@ sorts of commas, parentheses, and so on:
   # etc
 
-When we try to allow `emitf`/`emit`/`emitp` to handle arbitrary map-valued -expressions, like `mapexcept($*, mymap)` and so on, this inserts more syntactic -complexity in terms of commas, parentheses, and so on. The technical term is -_LR-1 shift-reduce conflicts_, but we can simply think of this in terms of the -parser not being able to efficiently disambiguate all the punctuational -opportunities. +When we try to allow `emitf`/`emit`/`emitp` to handle arbitrary map-valued expressions, like `mapexcept($*, mymap)` and so on, this inserts more syntactic complexity in terms of commas, parentheses, and so on. The technical term is _LR-1 shift-reduce conflicts_, but we can think of this in terms of the parser being unable to efficiently disambiguate all the punctuational opportunities. So, `emit1` can handle syntactic richness in the one thing being emitted; `emitf`, `emit`, and `emitp` can handle syntactic richness in the side-by-side @@ -365,7 +345,7 @@ placement, indexing, and redirection. (Mnemonic: If all you want is to insert a new record into the record stream, `emit1` is probably the _one_ you want.) -What this means is that if you want to emit an expression which evaluates to a map, you can do quite simply +What this means is that if you want to emit an expression that evaluates to a map, you can do it quite simply:
 mlr --c2p --from example.csv put -q '
@@ -386,7 +366,7 @@ id color  shape    flag  k  index quantity rate
 10 purple square   false 10 91    72.3735  8.2430
 
-And if you want indexing, redirects, etc., just assign to a temporary variable and use one of the other emit variants: +And if you want indexing, redirects, etc., just assign to a temporary variable and use one of the other `emit` variants:
 mlr --c2p --from example.csv put -q '
@@ -410,7 +390,7 @@ id color  shape    flag  k  index quantity rate
 
 ## Emitf statements
 
-Use **emitf** to output several out-of-stream variables side-by-side in the same output record. For `emitf` these mustn't have indexing using `@name[...]`. Example:
+Use **emitf** to output several out-of-stream variables side-by-side in the same output record. For `emitf`, these mustn't have indexing using `@name[...]`. Example:
 
 
 mlr put -q '
@@ -426,7 +406,7 @@ count=5,x_sum=2.26476,y_sum=2.585083
 
 ## Emit statements
 
-Use **emit** to output an out-of-stream variable. If it's non-indexed you'll get a simple key-value pair:
+Use **emit** to output an out-of-stream variable. If it's non-indexed, you'll get a simple key-value pair:
 
 
 cat data/small
@@ -455,7 +435,7 @@ a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.573288,y=0.863624
 sum=2.26476
 
-If it's indexed then use as many names after `emit` as there are indices: +If it's indexed, then use as many names after `emit` as there are indices:
 mlr put -q '@sum[$a] += $x; end { dump }' data/small
@@ -624,8 +604,7 @@ sum.wye.wye 0.204603
 sum.wye.pan 0.573288
 
-Use **--flatsep** to specify the character which joins multilevel -keys for `emitp` (it defaults to a colon): +Use **--flatsep** to specify the character that joins multilevel keys for `emitp` (it defaults to a colon):
 mlr --flatsep / put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emitp @sum, "a" }' data/small
@@ -703,11 +682,11 @@ hat hat 182.8535323148762  381     0.47993053101017374
 hat pan 168.5538067327806  363     0.4643355557376876
 
-What this does is walk through the first out-of-stream variable (`@x_sum` in this example) as usual, then for each keylist found (e.g. `pan,wye`), include the values for the remaining out-of-stream variables (here, `@x_count` and `@x_mean`). You should use this when all out-of-stream variables in the emit statement have **the same shape and the same keylists**. +What this does is walk through the first out-of-stream variable (`@x_sum` in this example) as usual, then for each keylist found (e.g., `pan,wye`), include the values for the remaining out-of-stream variables (here, `@x_count` and `@x_mean`). You should use this when all out-of-stream variables in the emit statement have **the same shape and the same keylists**. ## Emit-all statements -Use **emit all** (or `emit @*` which is synonymous) to output all out-of-stream variables. You can use the following idiom to get various accumulators output side-by-side (reminiscent of `mlr stats1`): +Use **emit all** (or `emit @*`, which is synonymous) to output all out-of-stream variables. You can use the following idiom to get various accumulators' output side-by-side (reminiscent of `mlr stats1`):
 mlr --from data/small --opprint put -q '
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-output-statements.md.in b/docs/src/reference-dsl-output-statements.md.in
index 3b42c2bc7..bfc142209 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-output-statements.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-output-statements.md.in
@@ -6,15 +6,15 @@ You can **output** variable-values or expressions in **five ways**:
 
 * Use **emit1**/**emit**/**emitp**/**emitf** to send out-of-stream variables' current values to the output record stream, e.g.  `@sum += $x; emit1 @sum` which produces an extra record such as `sum=3.1648382`. These records, just like records from input file(s), participate in downstream [then-chaining](reference-main-then-chaining.md) to other verbs.
 
-* Use the **print** or **eprint** keywords which immediately print an expression *directly to standard output or standard error*, respectively. Note that `dump`, `edump`, `print`, and `eprint` don't output records which participate in `then`-chaining; rather, they're just immediate prints to stdout/stderr. The `printn` and `eprintn` keywords are the same except that they don't print final newlines. Additionally, you can print to a specified file instead of stdout/stderr.
+* Use the **print** or **eprint** keywords which immediately print an expression *directly to standard output or standard error*, respectively. Note that `dump`, `edump`, `print`, and `eprint` don't output records that participate in `then`-chaining; rather, they're just immediate prints to stdout/stderr. The `printn` and `eprintn` keywords are the same except that they don't print final newlines. Additionally, you can print to a specified file instead of stdout/stderr.
 
 * Use the **dump** or **edump** keywords, which *immediately print all out-of-stream variables as a JSON data structure to the standard output or standard error* (respectively).
 
-* Use **tee** which formats the current stream record (not just an arbitrary string as with **print**) to a specific file.
+* Use **tee**, which formats the current stream record (not just an arbitrary string as with **print**) to a specific file.
 
-For the first two options you are populating the output-records stream which feeds into the next verb in a `then`-chain (if any), or which otherwise is formatted for output using `--o...` flags.
+For the first two options, you are populating the output-records stream which feeds into the next verb in a `then`-chain (if any), or which otherwise is formatted for output using `--o...` flags.
 
-For the last three options you are sending output directly to standard output, standard error, or a file.
+For the last three options, you are sending output directly to standard output, standard error, or a file.
 
 ## Print statements
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The `print` statement is perhaps self-explanatory, but with a few light caveats:
 
 * There are four variants: `print` goes to stdout with final newline, `printn` goes to stdout without final newline (you can include one using "\n" in your output string), `eprint` goes to stderr with final newline, and `eprintn` goes to stderr without final newline.
 
-* Output goes directly to stdout/stderr, respectively: data produced this way do not go downstream to the next verb in a `then`-chain. (Use `emit` for that.)
+* Output goes directly to stdout/stderr, respectively: data produced this way does not go downstream to the next verb in a `then`-chain. (Use `emit` for that.)
 
 * Print statements are for strings (`print "hello"`), or things which can be made into strings: numbers (`print 3`, `print $a + $b`), or concatenations thereof (`print "a + b = " . ($a + $b)`). Maps (in `$*`, map-valued out-of-stream or local variables, and map literals) as well as arrays are printed as JSON.
 
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ The `dump` statement is for printing expressions, including maps, directly to st
 
 * There are two variants: `dump` prints to stdout; `edump` prints to stderr.
 
-* Output goes directly to stdout/stderr, respectively: data produced this way do not go downstream to the next verb in a `then`-chain. (Use `emit` for that.)
+* Output goes directly to stdout/stderr, respectively: data produced this way does not go downstream to the next verb in a `then`-chain. (Use `emit` for that.)
 
-* You can use `dump` to output single strings, numbers, or expressions including map-valued data. Map-valued data are printed as JSON.
+* You can use `dump` to output single strings, numbers, or expressions including map-valued data. Map-valued data is printed as JSON.
 
 * If you use `dump` (or `edump`) with no arguments, you get a JSON structure representing the current values of all out-of-stream variables.
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ The `dump` statement is for printing expressions, including maps, directly to st
 
 Records produced by a `mlr put` go downstream to the next verb in your `then`-chain, if any, or otherwise to standard output.  If you want to additionally copy out records to files, you can do that using `tee`.
 
-The syntax is, by example:
+The syntax is, for example:
 
 GENMD-CARDIFY-HIGHLIGHT-ONE
 mlr --from myfile.dat put 'tee > "tap.dat", $*' then sort -n index
@@ -68,8 +68,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 First is `tee >`, then the filename expression (which can be an expression such as `"tap.".$a.".dat"`), then a comma, then `$*`. (Nothing else but `$*` is teeable.)
 
-You can also write to a variable file name -- for example, you can split a
-single file into multiple ones on field names:
+You can also write to a variable file name -- for example, you can split a single file into multiple ones on field names:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --csv cat example.csv
@@ -135,26 +134,12 @@ There are four variants: `emit1`, `emitf`, `emit`, and `emitp`. These are used
 to insert new records into the record stream -- or, optionally, redirect them
 to files.
 
-Keep in mind that out-of-stream variables are a nested, multi-level
-[map](reference-main-maps.md) (directly viewable as JSON using `dump`), while
-Miller record values are as well during processing -- but records may be
-flattened down for output to tabular formats. See the page [Flatten/unflatten:
-JSON vs. tabular formats](flatten-unflatten.md) for more information.
+Keep in mind that out-of-stream variables are a nested, multi-level [map](reference-main-maps.md) (directly viewable as JSON using `dump`), while Miller record values are as well during processing -- but records may be flattened down for output to tabular formats. See the page [Flatten/unflatten: JSON vs. tabular formats](flatten-unflatten.md) for more information.
 
-* You can use `emit1` to emit any map-valued expression, including `$*`,
-  map-valued out-of-stream variables, the entire out-of-stream-variable
-  collection `@*`, map-valued local variables, map literals, or map-valued
-  function return values.
-* For `emit`, `emitp`, and `emitf`, you can emit map-valued local variables,
-  map-valued field attributes (with `$`), map-va out-of-stream variables (with
-  `@`), `$*`, `@*`, or map literals (with outermost `{...}`) -- but not arbitrary
-  expressions which evaluate to map (such as function return values).
+* You can use `emit1` to emit any map-valued expression, including `$*`, map-valued out-of-stream variables, the entire out-of-stream-variable collection `@*`, map-valued local variables, map literals, or map-valued function return values.
+* For `emit`, `emitp`, and `emitf`, you can emit map-valued local variables, map-valued field attributes (with `$`), map-va out-of-stream variables (with `@`), `$*`, `@*`, or map literals (with outermost `{...}`) -- but not arbitrary expressions which evaluate to map (such as function return values).
 
-The reason for this is part historical and part technical. As we'll see below,
-you can do lots of syntactical things with `emit`, `emitp`, and `emitf`,
-including printing them side-by-side, index them, redirect the output to files,
-etc. What this means syntactically is that Miller's parser needs to handle all
-sorts of commas, parentheses, and so on:
+The reason for this is partly historical and partly technical. As we'll see below, you can do lots of syntactical things with `emit`, `emitp`, and `emitf`, including printing them side-by-side, indexing them, redirecting the output to files, etc. What this means syntactically is that Miller's parser needs to handle all sorts of commas, parentheses, and so on:
 
 GENMD-CARDIFY
   emitf @count, @sum
@@ -163,12 +148,7 @@ GENMD-CARDIFY
   # etc
 GENMD-EOF
 
-When we try to allow `emitf`/`emit`/`emitp` to handle arbitrary map-valued
-expressions, like `mapexcept($*, mymap)` and so on, this inserts more syntactic
-complexity in terms of commas, parentheses, and so on. The technical term is
-_LR-1 shift-reduce conflicts_, but we can simply think of this in terms of the
-parser not being able to efficiently disambiguate all the punctuational
-opportunities.
+When we try to allow `emitf`/`emit`/`emitp` to handle arbitrary map-valued expressions, like `mapexcept($*, mymap)` and so on, this inserts more syntactic complexity in terms of commas, parentheses, and so on. The technical term is _LR-1 shift-reduce conflicts_, but we can think of this in terms of the parser being unable to efficiently disambiguate all the punctuational opportunities.
 
 So, `emit1` can handle syntactic richness in the one thing being emitted;
 `emitf`, `emit`, and `emitp` can handle syntactic richness in the side-by-side
@@ -176,7 +156,7 @@ placement, indexing, and redirection.
 
 (Mnemonic: If all you want is to insert a new record into the record stream, `emit1` is probably the _one_ you want.)
 
-What this means is that if you want to emit an expression which evaluates to a map, you can do quite simply
+What this means is that if you want to emit an expression that evaluates to a map, you can do it quite simply:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --c2p --from example.csv put -q '
@@ -184,7 +164,7 @@ mlr --c2p --from example.csv put -q '
 '
 GENMD-EOF
 
-And if you want indexing, redirects, etc., just assign to a temporary variable and use one of the other emit variants:
+And if you want indexing, redirects, etc., just assign to a temporary variable and use one of the other `emit` variants:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --c2p --from example.csv put -q '
@@ -195,7 +175,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 ## Emitf statements
 
-Use **emitf** to output several out-of-stream variables side-by-side in the same output record. For `emitf` these mustn't have indexing using `@name[...]`. Example:
+Use **emitf** to output several out-of-stream variables side-by-side in the same output record. For `emitf`, these mustn't have indexing using `@name[...]`. Example:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr put -q '
@@ -208,7 +188,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 ## Emit statements
 
-Use **emit** to output an out-of-stream variable. If it's non-indexed you'll get a simple key-value pair:
+Use **emit** to output an out-of-stream variable. If it's non-indexed, you'll get a simple key-value pair:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 cat data/small
@@ -222,7 +202,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr put -q '@sum += $x; end { emit @sum }' data/small
 GENMD-EOF
 
-If it's indexed then use as many names after `emit` as there are indices:
+If it's indexed, then use as many names after `emit` as there are indices:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr put -q '@sum[$a] += $x; end { dump }' data/small
@@ -277,8 +257,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --oxtab put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emitp @sum }' data/small
 GENMD-EOF
 
-Use **--flatsep** to specify the character which joins multilevel
-keys for `emitp` (it defaults to a colon):
+Use **--flatsep** to specify the character that joins multilevel keys for `emitp` (it defaults to a colon):
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --flatsep / put -q '@sum[$a][$b] += $x; end { emitp @sum, "a" }' data/small
@@ -313,11 +292,11 @@ mlr --from data/medium --opprint put -q '
 '
 GENMD-EOF
 
-What this does is walk through the first out-of-stream variable (`@x_sum` in this example) as usual, then for each keylist found (e.g. `pan,wye`), include the values for the remaining out-of-stream variables (here, `@x_count` and `@x_mean`). You should use this when all out-of-stream variables in the emit statement have **the same shape and the same keylists**.
+What this does is walk through the first out-of-stream variable (`@x_sum` in this example) as usual, then for each keylist found (e.g., `pan,wye`), include the values for the remaining out-of-stream variables (here, `@x_count` and `@x_mean`). You should use this when all out-of-stream variables in the emit statement have **the same shape and the same keylists**.
 
 ## Emit-all statements
 
-Use **emit all** (or `emit @*` which is synonymous) to output all out-of-stream variables. You can use the following idiom to get various accumulators output side-by-side (reminiscent of `mlr stats1`):
+Use **emit all** (or `emit @*`, which is synonymous) to output all out-of-stream variables. You can use the following idiom to get various accumulators' output side-by-side (reminiscent of `mlr stats1`):
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --from data/small --opprint put -q '
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-syntax.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-syntax.md
index f2a8b45cb..9b51cdd61 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-syntax.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-syntax.md
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ hat wye 10002 0.321507044286237609 0.568893318795083758 5  9  4   2       data/s
 pan zee 10003 0.272054845593895200 0.425789896597056627 5  10 5   2       data/small2
 
-Anything from a `#` character to end of line is a code comment. +Anything from a `#` character to the end of the line is a code comment.
 mlr --opprint filter '($x > 0.5 && $y < 0.5) || ($x < 0.5 && $y > 0.5)' \
@@ -147,11 +147,11 @@ a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.381399,y=0.134188,xy=0.40431623334340655
 a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.573288,y=0.863624,xy=1.036583592538489
 
-A suggested use-case here is defining functions in files, and calling them from command-line expressions. +A suggested use case here is defining functions in files and calling them from command-line expressions. -Another suggested use-case is putting default parameter values in files, e.g. using `begin{@count=is_present(@count)?@count:10}` in the file, where you can precede that using `begin{@count=40}` using `-e`. +Another suggested use case is putting default parameter values in files, e.g., using `begin{@count=is_present(@count)?@count:10}` in the file, where you can precede that using `begin{@count=40}` using `-e`. -Moreover, you can have one or more `-f` expressions (maybe one function per file, for example) and one or more `-e` expressions on the command line. If you mix `-f` and `-e` then the expressions are evaluated in the order encountered. +Moreover, you can have one or more `-f` expressions (maybe one function per file, for example) and one or more `-e` expressions on the command line. If you mix `-f` and `-e`, then the expressions are evaluated in the order encountered. ## Semicolons, commas, newlines, and curly braces @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ x=1,y=2,3=,4=,5=,6=,7=,8=,9=,10=,foo=bar x=1,y=2,3=,4=,5=,6=,7=,8=,9=,10=,foo=bar
-Semicolons are required between statements even if those statements are on separate lines. **Newlines** are for your convenience but have no syntactic meaning: line endings do not terminate statements. For example, adjacent assignment statements must be separated by semicolons even if those statements are on separate lines: +Semicolons are required between statements, even if those statements are on separate lines. **Newlines** are for your convenience but have no syntactic meaning: line endings do not terminate statements. For example, adjacent assignment statements must be separated by semicolons even if those statements are on separate lines:
 mlr put '
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-syntax.md.in b/docs/src/reference-dsl-syntax.md.in
index aa918c944..46e71b81f 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-syntax.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-syntax.md.in
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ mlr --opprint put '
 ' data/small data/small2
 GENMD-EOF
 
-Anything from a `#` character to end of line is a code comment.
+Anything from a `#` character to the end of the line is a code comment.
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --opprint filter '($x > 0.5 && $y < 0.5) || ($x < 0.5 && $y > 0.5)' \
@@ -62,11 +62,11 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --from data/small put -f data/fe-example-4.mlr -e '$xy = f($x, $y)'
 GENMD-EOF
 
-A suggested use-case here is defining functions in files, and calling them from command-line expressions.
+A suggested use case here is defining functions in files and calling them from command-line expressions.
 
-Another suggested use-case is putting default parameter values in files, e.g. using `begin{@count=is_present(@count)?@count:10}` in the file, where you can precede that using `begin{@count=40}` using `-e`.
+Another suggested use case is putting default parameter values in files, e.g., using `begin{@count=is_present(@count)?@count:10}` in the file, where you can precede that using `begin{@count=40}` using `-e`.
 
-Moreover, you can have one or more `-f` expressions (maybe one function per file, for example) and one or more `-e` expressions on the command line.  If you mix `-f` and `-e` then the expressions are evaluated in the order encountered.
+Moreover, you can have one or more `-f` expressions (maybe one function per file, for example) and one or more `-e` expressions on the command line.  If you mix `-f` and `-e`, then the expressions are evaluated in the order encountered.
 
 ## Semicolons, commas, newlines, and curly braces
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 echo x=1,y=2 | mlr put 'while (NF < 10) { $[NF+1] = ""}; $foo = "bar"'
 GENMD-EOF
 
-Semicolons are required between statements even if those statements are on separate lines.  **Newlines** are for your convenience but have no syntactic meaning: line endings do not terminate statements. For example, adjacent assignment statements must be separated by semicolons even if those statements are on separate lines:
+Semicolons are required between statements, even if those statements are on separate lines.  **Newlines** are for your convenience but have no syntactic meaning: line endings do not terminate statements. For example, adjacent assignment statements must be separated by semicolons even if those statements are on separate lines:
 
 GENMD-INCLUDE-ESCAPED(data/newline-example.txt)
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md
index d2be5a162..5197701de 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Quick links:
 
 # DSL user-defined functions
 
-As of Miller 5.0.0 you can define your own functions, as well as subroutines.
+As of Miller 5.0.0, you can define your own functions, as well as subroutines.
 
 ## User-defined functions
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ wye pan 5 0.573288 0.863624 211.38663947090302 120
 
 Properties of user-defined functions:
 
-* Function bodies start with `func` and a parameter list, defined outside of `begin`, `end`, or other `func` or `subr` blocks. (I.e. the Miller DSL has no nested functions.)
+* Function bodies start with `func` and a parameter list, defined outside of `begin`, `end`, or other `func` or `subr` blocks. (I.e., the Miller DSL has no nested functions.)
 
 * A function (uniqified by its name) may not be redefined: either by redefining a user-defined function, or by redefining a built-in function. However, functions and subroutines have separate namespaces: you can define a subroutine `log` (for logging messages to stderr, say) which does not clash with the mathematical `log` (logarithm) function.
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Properties of user-defined functions:
 
 * When a return value is not implicitly returned, this results in a return value of [absent-null](reference-main-null-data.md). (In the example above, if there were records for which the argument to `f` is non-numeric, the assignments would be skipped.) See also the [null-data reference page](reference-main-null-data.md).
 
-* See the section on [Local variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#local-variables) for information on scope and extent of arguments, as well as for information on the use of local variables within functions.
+* See the section on [Local variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#local-variables) for information on the scope and extent of arguments, as well as for information on the use of local variables within functions.
 
 * See the section on [Expressions from files](reference-dsl-syntax.md#expressions-from-files) for information on the use of `-f` and `-e` flags.
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ numcalls=15
 
 Properties of user-defined subroutines:
 
-* Subroutine bodies start with `subr` and a parameter list, defined outside of `begin`, `end`, or other `func` or `subr` blocks. (I.e. the Miller DSL has no nested subroutines.)
+* Subroutine bodies start with `subr` and a parameter list, defined outside of `begin`, `end`, or other `func` or `subr` blocks. (I.e., the Miller DSL has no nested subroutines.)
 
 * A subroutine (uniqified by its name) may not be redefined. However, functions and subroutines have separate namespaces: you can define a subroutine `log` which does not clash with the mathematical `log` function.
 
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Properties of user-defined subroutines:
 
 * Argument values may be reassigned: they are not read-only.
 
-* See the section on [local variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#local-variables) for information on scope and extent of arguments, as well as for information on the use of local variables within functions.
+* See the section on [local variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#local-variables) for information on the scope and extent of arguments, as well as for information on the use of local variables within functions.
 
 * See the section on [Expressions from files](reference-dsl-syntax.md#expressions-from-files) for information on the use of `-f` and `-e` flags.
 
@@ -123,15 +123,11 @@ Properties of user-defined subroutines:
 
 Subroutines cannot return values, and they are invoked by the keyword `call`.
 
-In hindsight, subroutines needn't have been invented. If `foo` is a function
-then you can write `foo(1,2,3)` while ignoring its return value, and that plays
-the role of subroutine quite well.
+In hindsight, subroutines needn't have been invented. If `foo is a function, then you can write `foo(1,2,3)` while ignoring its return value, and that plays the role of a subroutine quite well.
 
 ## Loading a library of functions
 
-If you have a file with UDFs you use frequently, say `my-udfs.mlr`, you can use
-`--load` or `--mload` to define them for your Miller scripts. For example, in
-your shell,
+If you have a file with UDFs you use frequently, say `my-udfs.mlr`, you can use `--load` or `--mload` to define them for your Miller scripts. For example, in your shell,
 
 
 alias mlr='mlr --load ~/my-functions.mlr'
@@ -149,8 +145,7 @@ See the [miscellaneous-flags page](reference-main-flag-list.md#miscellaneous-fla
 
 You can define unnamed functions and assign them to variables, or pass them to functions.
 
-See also the [page on higher-order functions](reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md)
-for more information on
+See also the [page on higher-order functions](reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md) for more information on
 [`select`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#select),
 [`apply`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#apply),
 [`reduce`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#reduce),
@@ -209,9 +204,7 @@ purple square   false 10 91    72.3735  8.2430 purple:square above
 
 Note that you need a semicolon after the closing curly brace of the function literal.
 
-Unlike named functions, function literals (also known as unnamed functions)
-have access to local variables defined in their enclosing scope. That's
-so you can do things like this:
+Unlike named functions, function literals (also known as unnamed functions) have access to local variables defined in their enclosing scope. That's so you can do things like this:
 
 
 mlr --c2p --from example.csv put '
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md.in b/docs/src/reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md.in
index c9f0c6d7c..4d8bb0c18 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-user-defined-functions.md.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # DSL user-defined functions
 
-As of Miller 5.0.0 you can define your own functions, as well as subroutines.
+As of Miller 5.0.0, you can define your own functions, as well as subroutines.
 
 ## User-defined functions
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 Properties of user-defined functions:
 
-* Function bodies start with `func` and a parameter list, defined outside of `begin`, `end`, or other `func` or `subr` blocks. (I.e. the Miller DSL has no nested functions.)
+* Function bodies start with `func` and a parameter list, defined outside of `begin`, `end`, or other `func` or `subr` blocks. (I.e., the Miller DSL has no nested functions.)
 
 * A function (uniqified by its name) may not be redefined: either by redefining a user-defined function, or by redefining a built-in function. However, functions and subroutines have separate namespaces: you can define a subroutine `log` (for logging messages to stderr, say) which does not clash with the mathematical `log` (logarithm) function.
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Properties of user-defined functions:
 
 * When a return value is not implicitly returned, this results in a return value of [absent-null](reference-main-null-data.md). (In the example above, if there were records for which the argument to `f` is non-numeric, the assignments would be skipped.) See also the [null-data reference page](reference-main-null-data.md).
 
-* See the section on [Local variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#local-variables) for information on scope and extent of arguments, as well as for information on the use of local variables within functions.
+* See the section on [Local variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#local-variables) for information on the scope and extent of arguments, as well as for information on the use of local variables within functions.
 
 * See the section on [Expressions from files](reference-dsl-syntax.md#expressions-from-files) for information on the use of `-f` and `-e` flags.
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 Properties of user-defined subroutines:
 
-* Subroutine bodies start with `subr` and a parameter list, defined outside of `begin`, `end`, or other `func` or `subr` blocks. (I.e. the Miller DSL has no nested subroutines.)
+* Subroutine bodies start with `subr` and a parameter list, defined outside of `begin`, `end`, or other `func` or `subr` blocks. (I.e., the Miller DSL has no nested subroutines.)
 
 * A subroutine (uniqified by its name) may not be redefined. However, functions and subroutines have separate namespaces: you can define a subroutine `log` which does not clash with the mathematical `log` function.
 
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Properties of user-defined subroutines:
 
 * Argument values may be reassigned: they are not read-only.
 
-* See the section on [local variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#local-variables) for information on scope and extent of arguments, as well as for information on the use of local variables within functions.
+* See the section on [local variables](reference-dsl-variables.md#local-variables) for information on the scope and extent of arguments, as well as for information on the use of local variables within functions.
 
 * See the section on [Expressions from files](reference-dsl-syntax.md#expressions-from-files) for information on the use of `-f` and `-e` flags.
 
@@ -87,15 +87,11 @@ Properties of user-defined subroutines:
 
 Subroutines cannot return values, and they are invoked by the keyword `call`.
 
-In hindsight, subroutines needn't have been invented. If `foo` is a function
-then you can write `foo(1,2,3)` while ignoring its return value, and that plays
-the role of subroutine quite well.
+In hindsight, subroutines needn't have been invented. If `foo is a function, then you can write `foo(1,2,3)` while ignoring its return value, and that plays the role of a subroutine quite well.
 
 ## Loading a library of functions
 
-If you have a file with UDFs you use frequently, say `my-udfs.mlr`, you can use
-`--load` or `--mload` to define them for your Miller scripts. For example, in
-your shell,
+If you have a file with UDFs you use frequently, say `my-udfs.mlr`, you can use `--load` or `--mload` to define them for your Miller scripts. For example, in your shell,
 
 GENMD-CARDIFY-HIGHLIGHT-ONE
 alias mlr='mlr --load ~/my-functions.mlr'
@@ -113,8 +109,7 @@ See the [miscellaneous-flags page](reference-main-flag-list.md#miscellaneous-fla
 
 You can define unnamed functions and assign them to variables, or pass them to functions.
 
-See also the [page on higher-order functions](reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md)
-for more information on
+See also the [page on higher-order functions](reference-dsl-higher-order-functions.md) for more information on
 [`select`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#select),
 [`apply`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#apply),
 [`reduce`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#reduce),
@@ -147,9 +142,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 Note that you need a semicolon after the closing curly brace of the function literal.
 
-Unlike named functions, function literals (also known as unnamed functions)
-have access to local variables defined in their enclosing scope. That's
-so you can do things like this:
+Unlike named functions, function literals (also known as unnamed functions) have access to local variables defined in their enclosing scope. That's so you can do things like this:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --c2p --from example.csv put '
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-variables.md b/docs/src/reference-dsl-variables.md
index 85ad66051..161afc018 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-variables.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-variables.md
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Quick links:
 
 Miller has the following kinds of variables:
 
-**Fields of stream records**, accessed using the `$` prefix. These refer to fields of the current data-stream record. For example, in `echo x=1,y=2 | mlr put '$z = $x + $y'`, `$x` and `$y` refer to input fields, and `$z` refers to a new, computed output field. In a few contexts, presented below, you can refer to the entire record as `$*`.
+**Fields of stream records**, accessed using the `$` prefix. These refer to fields of the current data-stream record. For example, in `echo x=1,y=2 | mlr put '$z = $x + $y'`, `$x` and `$y` refer to input fields, and `$z` refers to a new, computed output field. In the following contexts, you can refer to the entire record as `$*`.
 
-**Out-of-stream variables** accessed using the `@` prefix. These refer to data which persist from one record to the next, including in `begin` and `end` blocks (which execute before/after the record stream is consumed, respectively). You use them to remember values across records, such as sums, differences, counters, and so on.  In a few contexts, presented below, you can refer to the entire out-of-stream-variables collection as `@*`.
+**Out-of-stream variables** accessed using the `@` prefix. These refer to data that persists from one record to the next, including in `begin` and `end` blocks (which execute before/after the record stream is consumed, respectively). You use them to remember values across records, such as sums, differences, and counters, among other things.  In the following contexts, you can refer to the entire out-of-stream-variables collection as `@*`.
 
-**Local variables** are limited in scope and extent to the current statements being executed: these include function arguments, bound variables in for loops, and local variables.
+**Local variables** are limited in scope and extent to the current statements being executed, including function arguments, bound variables in for loops, and local variables.
 
 **Built-in variables** such as `NF`, `NR`, `FILENAME`, `M_PI`, and `M_E`.  These are all capital letters and are read-only (although some of them change value from one record to another).
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Miller has the following kinds of variables:
 
 Names of fields within stream records must be specified using a `$` in [filter and put expressions](reference-dsl.md), even though the dollar signs don't appear in the data stream itself. For integer-indexed data, this looks like `awk`'s `$1,$2,$3`, except that Miller allows non-numeric names such as `$quantity` or `$hostname`.  Likewise, enclose string literals in double quotes in `filter` expressions even though they don't appear in file data.  In particular, `mlr filter '$x=="abc"'` passes through the record `x=abc`.
 
-If field names have **special characters** such as `.` then you can use braces, e.g. `'${field.name}'`.
+If field names have **special characters** such as `.`, then you can use braces, e.g. `'${field.name}'`.
 
 You may also use a **computed field name** in square brackets, e.g.
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Their **extent** is limited to the current record; their **scope** is the `filte
 
 These are **read-write**: you can do `$y=2*$x`, `$x=$x+1`, etc.
 
-Records are Miller's output: field names present in the input stream are passed through to output (written to standard output) unless fields are removed with `cut`, or records are excluded with `filter` or `put -q`, etc. Simply assign a value to a field and it will be output.
+Records are Miller's output: field names present in the input stream are passed through to output (written to standard output) unless fields are removed with `cut`, or records are excluded with `filter` or `put -q`, etc. Simply assign a value to a field, and it will be output.
 
 ## Positional field names
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Even though Miller's main selling point is name-indexing, sometimes you really w
 
 Use `$[[3]]` to access the name of field 3.  More generally, any expression evaluating to an integer can go between `$[[` and `]]`.
 
-Then using a computed field name, `$[ $[[3]] ]` is the value in the third field. This has the shorter equivalent notation `$[[[3]]]`.
+Then, using a computed field name, `$[ $[[3]] ]` is the value in the third field. This has the shorter equivalent notation `$[[[3]]]`.
 
 
 mlr cat data/small
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=NEW,y=0.134188
 a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.573288,y=NEW
 
-Right-hand side accesses to non-existent fields -- i.e. with index less than 1 or greater than `NF` -- return an absent value. Likewise, left-hand side accesses only refer to fields which already exist. For example, if a field has 5 records then assigning the name or value of the 6th (or 600th) field results in a no-op. +Right-hand side accesses to non-existent fields -- i.e., with index less than 1 or greater than `NF` -- return an absent value. Likewise, left-hand side accesses only refer to fields that already exist. For example, if a field has 5 records, then assigning the name or value of the 6th (or 600th) field results in a no-op.
 mlr put '$[[6]] = "NEW"' data/small
@@ -155,11 +155,15 @@ a=eks,b=wye,i=4,x=0.381399,y=0.134188
 a=wye,b=pan,i=5,x=0.573288,y=0.863624
 
+!!! note + + You can use positional field names only in the [Miller DSL](reference-dsl.md), i.e., only with the verbs `put` and `filter`. + ## Out-of-stream variables -These are prefixed with an at-sign, e.g. `@sum`. Furthermore, unlike built-in variables and stream-record fields, they are maintained in an arbitrarily nested map: you can do `@sum += $quantity`, or `@sum[$color] += $quantity`, or `@sum[$color][$shape] += $quantity`. The keys for the multi-level map can be any expression which evaluates to string or integer: e.g. `@sum[NR] = $a + $b`, `@sum[$a."-".$b] = $x`, etc. +These are prefixed with an at-sign, e.g., `@sum`. Furthermore, unlike built-in variables and stream-record fields, they are maintained in an arbitrarily nested map: you can do `@sum += $quantity`, or `@sum[$color] += $quantity`, or `@sum[$color][$shape] += $quantity`. The keys for the multi-level map can be any expression that evaluates to string or integer: e.g. `@sum[NR] = $a + $b`, `@sum[$a."-".$b] = $x`, etc. -Their names and their values are entirely under your control; they change only when you assign to them. +Their names and their values are entirely under your control; they change only when you assign them. Just as for field names in stream records, if you want to define out-of-stream variables with **special characters** such as `.` then you can use braces, e.g. `'@{variable.name}["index"]'`. @@ -194,13 +198,13 @@ sum=5 sum=50
-Out-of-stream variables' **extent** is from the start to the end of the record stream, i.e. every time the `put` or `filter` statement referring to them is executed. +Out-of-stream variables' **extent** is from the start to the end of the record stream, i.e., every time the `put` or `filter` statement referring to them is executed. Out-of-stream variables are **read-write**: you can do `$sum=@sum`, `@sum=$sum`, etc. ## Indexed out-of-stream variables -Using an index on the `@count` and `@sum` variables, we get the benefit of the `-g` (group-by) option which `mlr stats1` and various other Miller commands have: +Using an index on the `@count` and `@sum` variables, we get the benefit of the `-g` (group-by) option, which `mlr stats1` and various other Miller commands have:
 mlr put -q '
@@ -305,8 +309,8 @@ Local variables are similar to out-of-stream variables, except that their extent
 For example:
 
 
-# Here I'm using a specified random-number seed so this example always
-# produces the same output for this web document: in everyday practice we
+# Here I'm using a specified random-number seed, so this example always
+# produces the same output for this web document: in everyday practice, we
 # would leave off the --seed 12345 part.
 mlr --seed 12345 seqgen --start 1 --stop 10 then put '
   func f(a, b) {                          # function arguments a and b
@@ -337,7 +341,7 @@ i=10,o=15.37686787628025
 
 Things which are completely unsurprising, resembling many other languages:
 
-* Parameter names are bound to their arguments but can be reassigned, e.g. if there is a parameter named `a` then you can reassign the value of `a` to be something else within the function if you like.
+* Parameter names are bound to their arguments but can be reassigned, e.g., if there is a parameter named `a`, then you can reassign the value of `a` to be something else within the function if you like.
 
 * However, you cannot redeclare the *type* of an argument or a local: `var a=1; var a=2` is an error but `var a=1;  a=2` is OK.
 
@@ -351,13 +355,13 @@ Things which are completely unsurprising, resembling many other languages:
 
 Things which are perhaps surprising compared to other languages:
 
-* Type declarations using `var`, or typed using `num`, `int`, `float`, `str`, `bool`, `arr`, `map`, `funct` are not necessary to declare local variables.  Function arguments and variables bound in for-loops over stream records and out-of-stream variables are *implicitly* declared using `var`. (Some examples are shown below.)
+* Type declarations using `var`, or typed using `num`, `int`, `float`, `str`, `bool`, `arr`, `map`, `funct`, are not necessary to declare local variables.  Function arguments and variables bound in for-loops over stream records and out-of-stream variables are *implicitly* declared using `var`. (Some examples are shown below.)
 
-* Type-checking is done at assignment time. For example, `float f = 0` is an error (since `0` is an integer), as is `float f = 0.0; f = 1`. For this reason I prefer to use `num` over `float` in most contexts since `num` encompasses integer and floating-point values. More information is at [Type-checking](reference-dsl-variables.md#type-checking).
+* Type-checking is done at assignment time. For example, `float f = 0` is an error (since `0` is an integer), as is `float f = 0.0; f = 1`. For this reason, I prefer to use `num` over `float` in most contexts, as `num` encompasses both integer and floating-point values. For more information, refer to [Type-checking](reference-dsl-variables.md#type-checking).
 
 * Bound variables in for-loops over stream records and out-of-stream variables are implicitly local to that block. E.g. in `for (k, v in $*) { ... }` `for ((k1, k2), v in @*) { ... }` if there are `k`, `v`, etc. in the enclosing scope then those will be masked by the loop-local bound variables in the loop, and moreover the values of the loop-local bound variables are not available after the end of the loop.
 
-* For C-style triple-for loops, if a for-loop variable is defined using `var`, `int`, etc. then it is scoped to that for-loop. E.g. `for (i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) { ... }` and `for (int i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) { ... }`. (This is unsurprising.). If there is no typedecl and an outer-scope variable of that name exists, then it is used. (This is also unsurprising.) But if there is no outer-scope variable of that name, then the variable is scoped to the for-loop only.
+* For C-style triple-for loops, if a for-loop variable is defined using `var`, `int`, etc., then it is scoped to that for-loop. E.g. `for (i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) { ... }` and `for (int i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) { ... }`. (This is unsurprising.). If there is no typedecl and an outer-scope variable of that name exists, then it is used. (This is also unsurprising.) But if there is no outer-scope variable of that name, then the variable is scoped to the for-loop only.
 
 The following example demonstrates the scope rules:
 
@@ -474,7 +478,7 @@ print "outer j =", j;       # j is undefined in this scope.
 
 ## Map literals
 
-Miller's `put`/`filter` DSL has four kinds of maps. **Stream records** are (single-level) maps from name to value. **Out-of-stream variables** and **local variables** can also be maps, although they can be multi-level maps (e.g. `@sum[$x][$y]`).  The fourth kind is **map literals**. These cannot be on the left-hand side of assignment expressions. Syntactically they look like JSON, although Miller allows string and integer keys in its map literals while JSON allows only string keys (e.g. `"3"` rather than `3`). Note though that integer keys become stringified in Miller: `@mymap[3]=4` results in `@mymap` being `{"3":4}`.
+Miller's `put`/`filter` DSL has four kinds of maps. **Stream records** are (single-level) maps from name to value. **Out-of-stream variables** and **local variables** can also be maps, although they can be multi-level maps (e.g. `@sum[$x][$y]`).  The fourth kind is **map literals**. These cannot be on the left-hand side of assignment expressions. Syntactically, they look like JSON, although Miller allows string and integer keys in its map literals while JSON allows only string keys (e.g., `"3"` rather than `3`). Note, though, that integer keys become stringified in Miller: `@mymap[3]=4` results in `@mymap` being `{"3":4}`.
 
 For example, the following swaps the input stream's `a` and `i` fields, modifies `y`, and drops the rest:
 
@@ -561,7 +565,7 @@ there are the read-only separator variables `IRS`, `ORS`, `IFS`, `OFS`, `IPS`,
 and `OPS` as discussed on the [separators page](reference-main-separators.md),
 and the flatten/unflatten separator `FLATSEP` discussed on the
 [flatten/unflatten page](flatten-unflatten.md).  Lastly, the `ENV` map allows
-read/write access to environment variables, e.g.  `ENV["HOME"]` or
+read/write access to environment variables, e.g., `ENV["HOME"]` or
 `ENV["foo_".$hostname]` or `ENV["VERSION"]="1.2.3"`.
 
 
@@ -604,7 +608,7 @@ system environment variables at the time Miller starts. Any changes made to
 `ENV` by assigning to it will affect any subprocesses, such as using
 [piped tee](reference-dsl-output-statements.md#redirected-output-statements).
 
-Their **scope is global**: you can refer to them in any `filter` or `put` statement. Their values are assigned by the input-record reader:
+Their **scope is global**: you can refer to them in any `filter` or `put` statement. The input-record reader assigns their values:
 
 
 mlr --csv put '$nr = NR' data/a.csv
@@ -630,11 +634,11 @@ a,b,c,nr
 
 The **extent** is for the duration of the put/filter: in a `begin` statement (which executes before the first input record is consumed) you will find `NR=1` and in an `end` statement (which is executed after the last input record is consumed) you will find `NR` to be the total number of records ingested.
 
-These are all **read-only** for the `mlr put` and `mlr filter` DSL: they may be assigned from, e.g. `$nr=NR`, but they may not be assigned to: `NR=100` is a syntax error.
+These are all **read-only** for the `mlr put` and `mlr filter` DSL: they may be assigned from, e.g., `$nr=NR`, but they may not be assigned to: `NR=100` is a syntax error.
 
 ## Type-checking
 
-Miller's `put`/`filter` DSL supports two optional kinds of type-checking.  One is inline **type-tests** and **type-assertions** within expressions.  The other is **type declarations** for assignments to local variables, binding of arguments to user-defined functions, and return values from user-defined functions, These are discussed in the following subsections.
+Miller's `put`/`filter` DSL supports two optional kinds of type-checking.  One is inline **type tests** and **type assertions** within expressions.  The other is **type declarations** for assignments to local variables, binding of arguments to user-defined functions, and return values from user-defined functions. These are discussed in the following subsections.
 
 Use of type-checking is entirely up to you: omit it if you want flexibility with heterogeneous data; use it if you want to help catch misspellings in your DSL code or unexpected irregularities in your input data.
 
@@ -695,22 +699,22 @@ asserting_string
 
 See [Data-cleaning Examples](data-cleaning-examples.md) for examples of how to use these.
 
-### Type-declarations for local variables, function parameter, and function return values
+### Type declarations for local variables, function parameters, and function return values
 
 Local variables can be defined either untyped as in `x = 1`, or typed as in `int x = 1`. Types include **var** (explicitly untyped), **int**, **float**, **num** (int or float), **str**, **bool**, **arr**, **map**, and **funct**. These optional type declarations are enforced at the time values are assigned to variables: whether at the initial value assignment as in `int x = 1` or in any subsequent assignments to the same variable farther down in the scope.
 
 The reason for `num` is that `int` and `float` typedecls are very precise:
 
 
-float a = 0;   # Runtime error since 0 is int not float
-int   b = 1.0; # Runtime error since 1.0 is float not int
+float a = 0;   # Runtime error since 0 is int, not float
+int   b = 1.0; # Runtime error since 1.0 is float, not int
 num   c = 0;   # OK
 num   d = 1.0; # OK
 
-A suggestion is to use `num` for general use when you want numeric content, and use `int` when you genuinely want integer-only values, e.g. in loop indices or map keys (since Miller map keys can only be strings or ints). +A suggestion is to use `num` for general use when you want numeric content, and use `int` when you genuinely want integer-only values, e.g., in loop indices or map keys (since Miller map keys can only be strings or ints). -The `var` type declaration indicates no type restrictions, e.g. `var x = 1` has the same type restrictions on `x` as `x = 1`. The difference is in intentional shadowing: if you have `x = 1` in outer scope and `x = 2` in inner scope (e.g. within a for-loop or an if-statement) then outer-scope `x` has value 2 after the second assignment. But if you have `var x = 2` in the inner scope, then you are declaring a variable scoped to the inner block.) For example: +The `var` type declaration indicates no type restrictions, e.g., `var x = 1` has the same type restrictions on `x` as `x = 1`. The difference is in intentional shadowing: if you have `x = 1` in outer scope and `x = 2` in inner scope (e.g., within a for-loop or an if-statement) then outer-scope `x` has value 2 after the second assignment. But if you have `var x = 2` in the inner scope, then you are declaring a variable scoped to the inner block.) For example:
 x = 1;
@@ -728,7 +732,7 @@ if (NR == 4) {
 print x;     # Value of this x is still 1
 
-Likewise function arguments can optionally be typed, with type enforced when the function is called: +Likewise, function arguments can optionally be typed, with type enforced when the function is called:
 func f(map m, int i) {
@@ -760,7 +764,7 @@ func f(map m, int i): bool {
   }
   ...
   ...
-  # In Miller if your functions don't explicitly return a value, they return absent-null.
+  # In Miller, if your functions don't explicitly return a value, they return absent-null.
   # So it would also be a runtime error on reaching the end of this function without
   # an explicit return statement.
 }
@@ -841,7 +845,7 @@ Example recursive copy of out-of-stream variables:
 }
 
-Example of out-of-stream variable assigned to full stream record, where the 2nd record is stashed, and the 4th record is overwritten with that: +Example of an out-of-stream variable assigned to the full stream record, where the 2nd record is stashed, and the 4th record is overwritten with that:
 mlr put 'NR == 2 {@keep = $*}; NR == 4 {$* = @keep}' data/small
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-dsl-variables.md.in b/docs/src/reference-dsl-variables.md.in
index 68fca60e4..0b9ddf60b 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-dsl-variables.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-dsl-variables.md.in
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 
 Miller has the following kinds of variables:
 
-**Fields of stream records**, accessed using the `$` prefix. These refer to fields of the current data-stream record. For example, in `echo x=1,y=2 | mlr put '$z = $x + $y'`, `$x` and `$y` refer to input fields, and `$z` refers to a new, computed output field. In a few contexts, presented below, you can refer to the entire record as `$*`.
+**Fields of stream records**, accessed using the `$` prefix. These refer to fields of the current data-stream record. For example, in `echo x=1,y=2 | mlr put '$z = $x + $y'`, `$x` and `$y` refer to input fields, and `$z` refers to a new, computed output field. In the following contexts, you can refer to the entire record as `$*`.
 
-**Out-of-stream variables** accessed using the `@` prefix. These refer to data which persist from one record to the next, including in `begin` and `end` blocks (which execute before/after the record stream is consumed, respectively). You use them to remember values across records, such as sums, differences, counters, and so on.  In a few contexts, presented below, you can refer to the entire out-of-stream-variables collection as `@*`.
+**Out-of-stream variables** accessed using the `@` prefix. These refer to data that persists from one record to the next, including in `begin` and `end` blocks (which execute before/after the record stream is consumed, respectively). You use them to remember values across records, such as sums, differences, and counters, among other things.  In the following contexts, you can refer to the entire out-of-stream-variables collection as `@*`.
 
-**Local variables** are limited in scope and extent to the current statements being executed: these include function arguments, bound variables in for loops, and local variables.
+**Local variables** are limited in scope and extent to the current statements being executed, including function arguments, bound variables in for loops, and local variables.
 
 **Built-in variables** such as `NF`, `NR`, `FILENAME`, `M_PI`, and `M_E`.  These are all capital letters and are read-only (although some of them change value from one record to another).
 
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Miller has the following kinds of variables:
 
 Names of fields within stream records must be specified using a `$` in [filter and put expressions](reference-dsl.md), even though the dollar signs don't appear in the data stream itself. For integer-indexed data, this looks like `awk`'s `$1,$2,$3`, except that Miller allows non-numeric names such as `$quantity` or `$hostname`.  Likewise, enclose string literals in double quotes in `filter` expressions even though they don't appear in file data.  In particular, `mlr filter '$x=="abc"'` passes through the record `x=abc`.
 
-If field names have **special characters** such as `.` then you can use braces, e.g. `'${field.name}'`.
+If field names have **special characters** such as `.`, then you can use braces, e.g. `'${field.name}'`.
 
 You may also use a **computed field name** in square brackets, e.g.
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Their **extent** is limited to the current record; their **scope** is the `filte
 
 These are **read-write**: you can do `$y=2*$x`, `$x=$x+1`, etc.
 
-Records are Miller's output: field names present in the input stream are passed through to output (written to standard output) unless fields are removed with `cut`, or records are excluded with `filter` or `put -q`, etc. Simply assign a value to a field and it will be output.
+Records are Miller's output: field names present in the input stream are passed through to output (written to standard output) unless fields are removed with `cut`, or records are excluded with `filter` or `put -q`, etc. Simply assign a value to a field, and it will be output.
 
 ## Positional field names
 
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Even though Miller's main selling point is name-indexing, sometimes you really w
 
 Use `$[[3]]` to access the name of field 3.  More generally, any expression evaluating to an integer can go between `$[[` and `]]`.
 
-Then using a computed field name, `$[ $[[3]] ]` is the value in the third field. This has the shorter equivalent notation `$[[[3]]]`.
+Then, using a computed field name, `$[ $[[3]] ]` is the value in the third field. This has the shorter equivalent notation `$[[[3]]]`.
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr cat data/small
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr put '$[[[NR]]] = "NEW"' data/small
 GENMD-EOF
 
-Right-hand side accesses to non-existent fields -- i.e. with index less than 1 or greater than `NF` -- return an absent value. Likewise, left-hand side accesses only refer to fields which already exist. For example, if a field has 5 records then assigning the name or value of the 6th (or 600th) field results in a no-op.
+Right-hand side accesses to non-existent fields -- i.e., with index less than 1 or greater than `NF` -- return an absent value. Likewise, left-hand side accesses only refer to fields that already exist. For example, if a field has 5 records, then assigning the name or value of the 6th (or 600th) field results in a no-op.
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr put '$[[6]] = "NEW"' data/small
@@ -80,11 +80,15 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr put '$[[[6]]] = "NEW"' data/small
 GENMD-EOF
 
+!!! note
+
+    You can use positional field names only in the [Miller DSL](reference-dsl.md), i.e., only with the verbs `put` and `filter`.
+
 ## Out-of-stream variables
 
-These are prefixed with an at-sign, e.g. `@sum`.  Furthermore, unlike built-in variables and stream-record fields, they are maintained in an arbitrarily nested map: you can do `@sum += $quantity`, or `@sum[$color] += $quantity`, or `@sum[$color][$shape] += $quantity`. The keys for the multi-level map can be any expression which evaluates to string or integer: e.g.  `@sum[NR] = $a + $b`, `@sum[$a."-".$b] = $x`, etc.
+These are prefixed with an at-sign, e.g., `@sum`.  Furthermore, unlike built-in variables and stream-record fields, they are maintained in an arbitrarily nested map: you can do `@sum += $quantity`, or `@sum[$color] += $quantity`, or `@sum[$color][$shape] += $quantity`. The keys for the multi-level map can be any expression that evaluates to string or integer: e.g.  `@sum[NR] = $a + $b`, `@sum[$a."-".$b] = $x`, etc.
 
-Their names and their values are entirely under your control; they change only when you assign to them.
+Their names and their values are entirely under your control; they change only when you assign them.
 
 Just as for field names in stream records, if you want to define out-of-stream variables with **special characters** such as `.` then you can use braces, e.g. `'@{variable.name}["index"]'`.
 
@@ -106,13 +110,13 @@ mlr put '@sum += $a; end {emit @sum}' \
   data/a.dkvp
 GENMD-EOF
 
-Out-of-stream variables' **extent** is from the start to the end of the record stream, i.e. every time the `put` or `filter` statement referring to them is executed.
+Out-of-stream variables' **extent** is from the start to the end of the record stream, i.e., every time the `put` or `filter` statement referring to them is executed.
 
 Out-of-stream variables are **read-write**: you can do `$sum=@sum`, `@sum=$sum`, etc.
 
 ## Indexed out-of-stream variables
 
-Using an index on the `@count` and `@sum` variables, we get the benefit of the `-g` (group-by) option which `mlr stats1` and various other Miller commands have:
+Using an index on the `@count` and `@sum` variables, we get the benefit of the `-g` (group-by) option, which `mlr stats1` and various other Miller commands have:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr put -q '
@@ -169,8 +173,8 @@ Local variables are similar to out-of-stream variables, except that their extent
 For example:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
-# Here I'm using a specified random-number seed so this example always
-# produces the same output for this web document: in everyday practice we
+# Here I'm using a specified random-number seed, so this example always
+# produces the same output for this web document: in everyday practice, we
 # would leave off the --seed 12345 part.
 mlr --seed 12345 seqgen --start 1 --stop 10 then put '
   func f(a, b) {                          # function arguments a and b
@@ -189,7 +193,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 Things which are completely unsurprising, resembling many other languages:
 
-* Parameter names are bound to their arguments but can be reassigned, e.g. if there is a parameter named `a` then you can reassign the value of `a` to be something else within the function if you like.
+* Parameter names are bound to their arguments but can be reassigned, e.g., if there is a parameter named `a`, then you can reassign the value of `a` to be something else within the function if you like.
 
 * However, you cannot redeclare the *type* of an argument or a local: `var a=1; var a=2` is an error but `var a=1;  a=2` is OK.
 
@@ -203,13 +207,13 @@ Things which are completely unsurprising, resembling many other languages:
 
 Things which are perhaps surprising compared to other languages:
 
-* Type declarations using `var`, or typed using `num`, `int`, `float`, `str`, `bool`, `arr`, `map`, `funct` are not necessary to declare local variables.  Function arguments and variables bound in for-loops over stream records and out-of-stream variables are *implicitly* declared using `var`. (Some examples are shown below.)
+* Type declarations using `var`, or typed using `num`, `int`, `float`, `str`, `bool`, `arr`, `map`, `funct`, are not necessary to declare local variables.  Function arguments and variables bound in for-loops over stream records and out-of-stream variables are *implicitly* declared using `var`. (Some examples are shown below.)
 
-* Type-checking is done at assignment time. For example, `float f = 0` is an error (since `0` is an integer), as is `float f = 0.0; f = 1`. For this reason I prefer to use `num` over `float` in most contexts since `num` encompasses integer and floating-point values. More information is at [Type-checking](reference-dsl-variables.md#type-checking).
+* Type-checking is done at assignment time. For example, `float f = 0` is an error (since `0` is an integer), as is `float f = 0.0; f = 1`. For this reason, I prefer to use `num` over `float` in most contexts, as `num` encompasses both integer and floating-point values. For more information, refer to [Type-checking](reference-dsl-variables.md#type-checking).
 
 * Bound variables in for-loops over stream records and out-of-stream variables are implicitly local to that block. E.g. in `for (k, v in $*) { ... }` `for ((k1, k2), v in @*) { ... }` if there are `k`, `v`, etc. in the enclosing scope then those will be masked by the loop-local bound variables in the loop, and moreover the values of the loop-local bound variables are not available after the end of the loop.
 
-* For C-style triple-for loops, if a for-loop variable is defined using `var`, `int`, etc. then it is scoped to that for-loop. E.g. `for (i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) { ... }` and `for (int i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) { ... }`. (This is unsurprising.). If there is no typedecl and an outer-scope variable of that name exists, then it is used. (This is also unsurprising.) But if there is no outer-scope variable of that name, then the variable is scoped to the for-loop only.
+* For C-style triple-for loops, if a for-loop variable is defined using `var`, `int`, etc., then it is scoped to that for-loop. E.g. `for (i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) { ... }` and `for (int i = 0; i < 10; i += 1) { ... }`. (This is unsurprising.). If there is no typedecl and an outer-scope variable of that name exists, then it is used. (This is also unsurprising.) But if there is no outer-scope variable of that name, then the variable is scoped to the for-loop only.
 
 The following example demonstrates the scope rules:
 
@@ -233,7 +237,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 ## Map literals
 
-Miller's `put`/`filter` DSL has four kinds of maps. **Stream records** are (single-level) maps from name to value. **Out-of-stream variables** and **local variables** can also be maps, although they can be multi-level maps (e.g. `@sum[$x][$y]`).  The fourth kind is **map literals**. These cannot be on the left-hand side of assignment expressions. Syntactically they look like JSON, although Miller allows string and integer keys in its map literals while JSON allows only string keys (e.g. `"3"` rather than `3`). Note though that integer keys become stringified in Miller: `@mymap[3]=4` results in `@mymap` being `{"3":4}`.
+Miller's `put`/`filter` DSL has four kinds of maps. **Stream records** are (single-level) maps from name to value. **Out-of-stream variables** and **local variables** can also be maps, although they can be multi-level maps (e.g. `@sum[$x][$y]`).  The fourth kind is **map literals**. These cannot be on the left-hand side of assignment expressions. Syntactically, they look like JSON, although Miller allows string and integer keys in its map literals while JSON allows only string keys (e.g., `"3"` rather than `3`). Note, though, that integer keys become stringified in Miller: `@mymap[3]=4` results in `@mymap` being `{"3":4}`.
 
 For example, the following swaps the input stream's `a` and `i` fields, modifies `y`, and drops the rest:
 
@@ -296,7 +300,7 @@ there are the read-only separator variables `IRS`, `ORS`, `IFS`, `OFS`, `IPS`,
 and `OPS` as discussed on the [separators page](reference-main-separators.md),
 and the flatten/unflatten separator `FLATSEP` discussed on the
 [flatten/unflatten page](flatten-unflatten.md).  Lastly, the `ENV` map allows
-read/write access to environment variables, e.g.  `ENV["HOME"]` or
+read/write access to environment variables, e.g., `ENV["HOME"]` or
 `ENV["foo_".$hostname]` or `ENV["VERSION"]="1.2.3"`.
 
 
@@ -316,7 +320,7 @@ system environment variables at the time Miller starts. Any changes made to
 `ENV` by assigning to it will affect any subprocesses, such as using
 [piped tee](reference-dsl-output-statements.md#redirected-output-statements).
 
-Their **scope is global**: you can refer to them in any `filter` or `put` statement. Their values are assigned by the input-record reader:
+Their **scope is global**: you can refer to them in any `filter` or `put` statement. The input-record reader assigns their values:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --csv put '$nr = NR' data/a.csv
@@ -328,11 +332,11 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 The **extent** is for the duration of the put/filter: in a `begin` statement (which executes before the first input record is consumed) you will find `NR=1` and in an `end` statement (which is executed after the last input record is consumed) you will find `NR` to be the total number of records ingested.
 
-These are all **read-only** for the `mlr put` and `mlr filter` DSL: they may be assigned from, e.g. `$nr=NR`, but they may not be assigned to: `NR=100` is a syntax error.
+These are all **read-only** for the `mlr put` and `mlr filter` DSL: they may be assigned from, e.g., `$nr=NR`, but they may not be assigned to: `NR=100` is a syntax error.
 
 ## Type-checking
 
-Miller's `put`/`filter` DSL supports two optional kinds of type-checking.  One is inline **type-tests** and **type-assertions** within expressions.  The other is **type declarations** for assignments to local variables, binding of arguments to user-defined functions, and return values from user-defined functions, These are discussed in the following subsections.
+Miller's `put`/`filter` DSL supports two optional kinds of type-checking.  One is inline **type tests** and **type assertions** within expressions.  The other is **type declarations** for assignments to local variables, binding of arguments to user-defined functions, and return values from user-defined functions. These are discussed in the following subsections.
 
 Use of type-checking is entirely up to you: omit it if you want flexibility with heterogeneous data; use it if you want to help catch misspellings in your DSL code or unexpected irregularities in your input data.
 
@@ -350,22 +354,22 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 See [Data-cleaning Examples](data-cleaning-examples.md) for examples of how to use these.
 
-### Type-declarations for local variables, function parameter, and function return values
+### Type declarations for local variables, function parameters, and function return values
 
 Local variables can be defined either untyped as in `x = 1`, or typed as in `int x = 1`. Types include **var** (explicitly untyped), **int**, **float**, **num** (int or float), **str**, **bool**, **arr**, **map**, and **funct**. These optional type declarations are enforced at the time values are assigned to variables: whether at the initial value assignment as in `int x = 1` or in any subsequent assignments to the same variable farther down in the scope.
 
 The reason for `num` is that `int` and `float` typedecls are very precise:
 
 GENMD-CARDIFY
-float a = 0;   # Runtime error since 0 is int not float
-int   b = 1.0; # Runtime error since 1.0 is float not int
+float a = 0;   # Runtime error since 0 is int, not float
+int   b = 1.0; # Runtime error since 1.0 is float, not int
 num   c = 0;   # OK
 num   d = 1.0; # OK
 GENMD-EOF
 
-A suggestion is to use `num` for general use when you want numeric content, and use `int` when you genuinely want integer-only values, e.g. in loop indices or map keys (since Miller map keys can only be strings or ints).
+A suggestion is to use `num` for general use when you want numeric content, and use `int` when you genuinely want integer-only values, e.g., in loop indices or map keys (since Miller map keys can only be strings or ints).
 
-The `var` type declaration indicates no type restrictions, e.g. `var x = 1` has the same type restrictions on `x` as `x = 1`. The difference is in intentional shadowing: if you have `x = 1` in outer scope and `x = 2` in inner scope (e.g. within a for-loop or an if-statement) then outer-scope `x` has value 2 after the second assignment.  But if you have `var x = 2` in the inner scope, then you are declaring a variable scoped to the inner block.) For example:
+The `var` type declaration indicates no type restrictions, e.g., `var x = 1` has the same type restrictions on `x` as `x = 1`. The difference is in intentional shadowing: if you have `x = 1` in outer scope and `x = 2` in inner scope (e.g., within a for-loop or an if-statement) then outer-scope `x` has value 2 after the second assignment.  But if you have `var x = 2` in the inner scope, then you are declaring a variable scoped to the inner block.) For example:
 
 GENMD-CARDIFY
 x = 1;
@@ -383,7 +387,7 @@ if (NR == 4) {
 print x;     # Value of this x is still 1
 GENMD-EOF
 
-Likewise function arguments can optionally be typed, with type enforced when the function is called:
+Likewise, function arguments can optionally be typed, with type enforced when the function is called:
 
 GENMD-CARDIFY
 func f(map m, int i) {
@@ -415,7 +419,7 @@ func f(map m, int i): bool {
   }
   ...
   ...
-  # In Miller if your functions don't explicitly return a value, they return absent-null.
+  # In Miller, if your functions don't explicitly return a value, they return absent-null.
   # So it would also be a runtime error on reaching the end of this function without
   # an explicit return statement.
 }
@@ -478,7 +482,7 @@ mlr --opprint --from data/small put -q '
 '
 GENMD-EOF
 
-Example of out-of-stream variable assigned to full stream record, where the 2nd record is stashed, and the 4th record is overwritten with that:
+Example of an out-of-stream variable assigned to the full stream record, where the 2nd record is stashed, and the 4th record is overwritten with that:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr put 'NR == 2 {@keep = $*}; NR == 4 {$* = @keep}' data/small
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-main-env-vars.md b/docs/src/reference-main-env-vars.md
index 3b3302b8c..295973d58 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-main-env-vars.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-main-env-vars.md
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ Quick links:
 The following environment variables affect how Miller works:
 
 * `MLRRC`: see [Customization](customization.md).
-* `MLR_NO_COLOR`, `MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR`, `MLR_KEY_COLOR`, `MLR_VALUE_COLOR`, `MLR_PASS_COLOR`, `MLR_FAIL_COLOR`, `MLR_REPL_PS1_COLOR`, `MLR_REPL_PS2_COLOR`, `MLR_HELP_COLOR`: see [Output Colorization](output-colorization.md).
+* `MLR_NO_COLOR`, `NO_COLOR`, `MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR`, `MLR_KEY_COLOR`, `MLR_VALUE_COLOR`, `MLR_PASS_COLOR`, `MLR_FAIL_COLOR`, `MLR_REPL_PS1_COLOR`, `MLR_REPL_PS2_COLOR`, `MLR_HELP_COLOR`: see [Output Colorization](output-colorization.md).
 * `MLR_REPL_PS1`, `MLR_REPL_PS2`: see [REPL](repl.md).
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-main-env-vars.md.in b/docs/src/reference-main-env-vars.md.in
index 5c74638a1..869c73f3f 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-main-env-vars.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-main-env-vars.md.in
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 The following environment variables affect how Miller works:
 
 * `MLRRC`: see [Customization](customization.md).
-* `MLR_NO_COLOR`, `MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR`, `MLR_KEY_COLOR`, `MLR_VALUE_COLOR`, `MLR_PASS_COLOR`, `MLR_FAIL_COLOR`, `MLR_REPL_PS1_COLOR`, `MLR_REPL_PS2_COLOR`, `MLR_HELP_COLOR`: see [Output Colorization](output-colorization.md).
+* `MLR_NO_COLOR`, `NO_COLOR`, `MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR`, `MLR_KEY_COLOR`, `MLR_VALUE_COLOR`, `MLR_PASS_COLOR`, `MLR_FAIL_COLOR`, `MLR_REPL_PS1_COLOR`, `MLR_REPL_PS2_COLOR`, `MLR_HELP_COLOR`: see [Output Colorization](output-colorization.md).
 * `MLR_REPL_PS1`, `MLR_REPL_PS2`: see [REPL](repl.md).
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-main-flag-list.md b/docs/src/reference-main-flag-list.md
index fde4d9496..e0f36f3af 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-main-flag-list.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-main-flag-list.md
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ Notes:
 **Flags:**
 
 * `--pass-comments`: Immediately print commented lines (prefixed by `#`) within the input.
-* `--pass-comments-with {string}`: Immediately print commented lines within input, with specified prefix.
+* `--pass-comments-with {string}`: Immediately print commented lines within input, with specified prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix must be a single character.
 * `--skip-comments`: Ignore commented lines (prefixed by `#`) within the input.
-* `--skip-comments-with {string}`: Ignore commented lines within input, with specified prefix.
+* `--skip-comments-with {string}`: Ignore commented lines within input, with specified prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix must be a single character.
 
 ## Compressed-data flags
 
@@ -123,10 +123,20 @@ These are flags which are applicable to CSV format.
 * `--headerless-csv-output or --ho or --headerless-tsv-output`: Print only CSV/TSV data lines; do not print CSV/TSV header lines.
 * `--implicit-csv-header or --headerless-csv-input or --hi or --implicit-tsv-header`: Use 1,2,3,... as field labels, rather than from line 1 of input files. Tip: combine with `label` to recreate missing headers.
 * `--lazy-quotes`: Accepts quotes appearing in unquoted fields, and non-doubled quotes appearing in quoted fields.
+* `--no-auto-unsparsify`: For CSV/TSV output: if the record keys change from one row to another, emit a blank line and a new header line. This is non-compliant with RFC 4180 but it helpful for heterogeneous data.
 * `--no-implicit-csv-header or --no-implicit-tsv-header`: Opposite of `--implicit-csv-header`. This is the default anyway -- the main use is for the flags to `mlr join` if you have main file(s) which are headerless but you want to join in on a file which does have a CSV/TSV header. Then you could use `mlr --csv --implicit-csv-header join --no-implicit-csv-header -l your-join-in-with-header.csv ... your-headerless.csv`.
 * `--quote-all`: Force double-quoting of CSV fields.
 * `-N`: Keystroke-saver for `--implicit-csv-header --headerless-csv-output`.
 
+## DKVP-only flags
+
+These are flags which are applicable to DKVP format.
+
+
+**Flags:**
+
+* `--incr-key`: Without this option, keyless DKVP fields are keyed by field number.  For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50` is ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$3=30,$d=40,$5=50`.  With this option, they're keyed by a running counter of keyless fields.  For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50` is ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$1=30,$d=40,$2=50`.
+
 ## File-format flags
 
 See the File formats doc page, and or `mlr help file-formats`, for more
@@ -143,9 +153,9 @@ are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`.
 **Flags:**
 
 * `--asv or --asvlite`: Use ASV format for input and output data.
-* `--csv or -c`: Use CSV format for input and output data.
+* `--csv or -c or --c2c`: Use CSV format for input and output data.
 * `--csvlite`: Use CSV-lite format for input and output data.
-* `--dkvp`: Use DKVP format for input and output data.
+* `--dkvp or --d2d`: Use DKVP format for input and output data.
 * `--gen-field-name`: Specify field name for --igen. Defaults to "i".
 * `--gen-start`: Specify start value for --igen. Defaults to 1.
 * `--gen-step`: Specify step value for --igen. Defaults to 1.
@@ -165,9 +175,9 @@ are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`.
 * `--itsvlite`: Use TSV-lite format for input data.
 * `--iusv or --iusvlite`: Use USV format for input data.
 * `--ixtab`: Use XTAB format for input data.
-* `--json or -j`: Use JSON format for input and output data.
-* `--jsonl`: Use JSON Lines format for input and output data.
-* `--nidx`: Use NIDX format for input and output data.
+* `--json or -j or --j2j`: Use JSON format for input and output data.
+* `--jsonl or --l2l`: Use JSON Lines format for input and output data.
+* `--nidx or --n2n`: Use NIDX format for input and output data.
 * `--oasv or --oasvlite`: Use ASV format for output data.
 * `--ocsv`: Use CSV format for output data.
 * `--ocsvlite`: Use CSV-lite format for output data.
@@ -181,11 +191,11 @@ are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`.
 * `--otsvlite`: Use TSV-lite format for output data.
 * `--ousv or --ousvlite`: Use USV format for output data.
 * `--oxtab`: Use XTAB format for output data.
-* `--pprint`: Use PPRINT format for input and output data.
-* `--tsv or -t`: Use TSV format for input and output data.
+* `--pprint or --p2p`: Use PPRINT format for input and output data.
+* `--tsv or -t or --t2t`: Use TSV format for input and output data.
 * `--tsvlite`: Use TSV-lite format for input and output data.
 * `--usv or --usvlite`: Use USV format for input and output data.
-* `--xtab`: Use XTAB format for input and output data.
+* `--xtab or --x2x`: Use XTAB format for input and output data.
 * `--xvright`: Right-justify values for XTAB format.
 * `-i {format name}`: Use format name for input data. For example: `-i csv` is the same as `--icsv`.
 * `-o {format name}`: Use format name for output data.  For example: `-o csv` is the same as `--ocsv`.
@@ -194,14 +204,14 @@ are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`.
 
 These flags control how Miller converts record values which are maps or arrays, when input is JSON and output is non-JSON (flattening) or input is non-JSON and output is JSON (unflattening).
 
-See the Flatten/unflatten doc page for more information.
+See the flatten/unflatten doc page https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/flatten-unflatten for more information.
 
 
 **Flags:**
 
 * `--flatsep or --jflatsep {string}`: Separator for flattening multi-level JSON keys, e.g. `{"a":{"b":3}}` becomes `a:b => 3` for non-JSON formats. Defaults to `.`.
-* `--no-auto-flatten`: When output is non-JSON, suppress the default auto-flatten behavior. Default: if `$y = [7,8,9]` then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9, and similarly for maps. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get `$y=[1, 2, 3]`.
-* `--no-auto-unflatten`: When input non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress the default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the input has `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9` then this unflattens to `$y=[7,8,9]`.  flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`.
+* `--no-auto-flatten`: When output is non-JSON, suppress the default auto-flatten behavior. Default: if `$y = [7,8,9]` then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9`, and similarly for maps. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get `$y=[1, 2, 3]`.
+* `--no-auto-unflatten`: When input is non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress the default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the input has `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9` then this unflattens to `$y=[7,8,9]`.  With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`.
 
 ## Format-conversion keystroke-saver flags
 
@@ -234,7 +244,7 @@ These are flags which are applicable to JSON output format.
 * `--jlistwrap or --jl`: Wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is the default for JSON output format.
 * `--jvquoteall`: Force all JSON values -- recursively into lists and object -- to string.
 * `--jvstack`: Put one key-value pair per line for JSON output (multi-line output). This is the default for JSON output format.
-* `--no-jlistwrap`: Wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is the default for JSON Lines output format.
+* `--no-jlistwrap`: Do not wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is the default for JSON Lines output format.
 * `--no-jvstack`: Put objects/arrays all on one line for JSON output. This is the default for JSON Lines output format.
 
 ## Legacy flags
@@ -327,8 +337,8 @@ Mechanisms for coloring:
 How you can control colorization:
 
 * Suppression/unsuppression:
-    * Environment variable `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` means don't color
-      even if stdout+TTY.
+    * Environment variable `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` or `export NO_COLOR=true`
+	  means don't color even if stdout+TTY.
     * Environment variable `export MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR=true` means do color
       even if not stdout+TTY.
       For example, you might want to use this when piping mlr output to `less -r`.
@@ -437,13 +447,13 @@ Notes about all other separators:
   - To avoid backslashing, you can use any of the following names:
 
           ascii_esc  = "\x1b"
-          ascii_etx  = "\x04"
+          ascii_etx  = "\x03"
           ascii_fs   = "\x1c"
           ascii_gs   = "\x1d"
-          ascii_null = "\x01"
+          ascii_null = "\x00"
           ascii_rs   = "\x1e"
-          ascii_soh  = "\x02"
-          ascii_stx  = "\x03"
+          ascii_soh  = "\x01"
+          ascii_stx  = "\x02"
           ascii_us   = "\x1f"
           asv_fs     = "\x1f"
           asv_rs     = "\x1e"
@@ -477,6 +487,7 @@ Notes about all other separators:
         csv      ","    N/A    "\n"
         csvlite  ","    N/A    "\n"
         dkvp     ","    "="    "\n"
+        gen      ","    N/A    "\n"
         json     N/A    N/A    N/A
         markdown " "    N/A    "\n"
         nidx     " "    N/A    "\n"
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-main-null-data.md b/docs/src/reference-main-null-data.md
index 63bfffaa9..175ae2ad2 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-main-null-data.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-main-null-data.md
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ with the exception that the `min` and `max` functions are special: if one argume
 x=,y=3,a=3,b=
 
-Likewise, empty works like 0 for addition and subtraction, and multiplication: +Likewise, empty works like 0 for addition and subtraction, and like 1 for multiplication:
 echo 'x=,y=3' | mlr put '$a = $x + $y; $b = $x - $y; $c = $x * $y'
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-main-null-data.md.in b/docs/src/reference-main-null-data.md.in
index 087edaa78..3ac1051ac 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-main-null-data.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-main-null-data.md.in
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 echo 'x=,y=3' | mlr put '$a=min($x,$y);$b=max($x,$y)'
 GENMD-EOF
 
-Likewise, empty works like 0 for addition and subtraction, and multiplication:
+Likewise, empty works like 0 for addition and subtraction, and like 1 for multiplication:
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 echo 'x=,y=3' | mlr put '$a = $x + $y; $b = $x - $y; $c = $x * $y'
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-main-overview.md b/docs/src/reference-main-overview.md
index cc9c3a0b3..b7e1a97c4 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-main-overview.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-main-overview.md
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ See also the [Glossary](glossary.md) for more about terms such as
 
 When you type `mlr {something} myfile.dat`, the `{something}` part is called a **verb**. It specifies how you want to transform your data. Most of the verbs are counterparts of built-in system tools like `cut` and `sort` -- but with file-format awareness, and giving you the ability to refer to fields by name.
 
-The verbs `put` and `filter` are special in that they have a rich expression language (domain-specific language, or "DSL"). More information about them can be found at on the [Intro to Miller's programming language page](miller-programming-language.md); see also [DSL reference](reference-dsl.md) for more details.
+The verbs `put` and `filter` are special in that they have a rich expression language (domain-specific language, or "DSL"). More information about them can be found on the [Intro to Miller's Programming Language page](miller-programming-language.md); see also the [DSL Reference](reference-dsl.md) for more details.
 
 Here's a comparison of verbs and `put`/`filter` DSL expressions:
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-main-overview.md.in b/docs/src/reference-main-overview.md.in
index 413b358e7..42c3b8f0c 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-main-overview.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-main-overview.md.in
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ See also the [Glossary](glossary.md) for more about terms such as
 
 When you type `mlr {something} myfile.dat`, the `{something}` part is called a **verb**. It specifies how you want to transform your data. Most of the verbs are counterparts of built-in system tools like `cut` and `sort` -- but with file-format awareness, and giving you the ability to refer to fields by name.
 
-The verbs `put` and `filter` are special in that they have a rich expression language (domain-specific language, or "DSL"). More information about them can be found at on the [Intro to Miller's programming language page](miller-programming-language.md); see also [DSL reference](reference-dsl.md) for more details.
+The verbs `put` and `filter` are special in that they have a rich expression language (domain-specific language, or "DSL"). More information about them can be found on the [Intro to Miller's Programming Language page](miller-programming-language.md); see also the [DSL Reference](reference-dsl.md) for more details.
 
 Here's a comparison of verbs and `put`/`filter` DSL expressions:
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-main-regular-expressions.md b/docs/src/reference-main-regular-expressions.md
index f679669b8..60126f5fa 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-main-regular-expressions.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-main-regular-expressions.md
@@ -251,7 +251,8 @@ package syntax // import "regexp/syntax"
 
 Package syntax parses regular expressions into parse trees and compiles parse
 trees into programs. Most clients of regular expressions will use the facilities
-of package regexp (such as Compile and Match) instead of this package.
+of package regexp (such as regexp.Compile and regexp.Match) instead of this
+package.
 
 # Syntax
 
@@ -301,6 +302,7 @@ Grouping:
 
     (re)           numbered capturing group (submatch)
     (?Pre)   named & numbered capturing group (submatch)
+    (?re)    named & numbered capturing group (submatch)
     (?:re)         non-capturing group
     (?flags)       set flags within current group; non-capturing
     (?flags:re)    set flags during re; non-capturing
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-main-separators.md b/docs/src/reference-main-separators.md
index c13241e65..8ed7612a7 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-main-separators.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-main-separators.md
@@ -187,13 +187,13 @@ Many things we'd like to write as separators need to be escaped from the shell
 
 ascii_esc  = "\x1b"
-ascii_etx  = "\x04"
+ascii_etx  = "\x03"
 ascii_fs   = "\x1c"
 ascii_gs   = "\x1d"
-ascii_null = "\x01"
+ascii_null = "\x00"
 ascii_rs   = "\x1e"
-ascii_soh  = "\x02"
-ascii_stx  = "\x03"
+ascii_soh  = "\x01"
+ascii_stx  = "\x02"
 ascii_us   = "\x1f"
 asv_fs     = "\x1f"
 asv_rs     = "\x1e"
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-verbs.md b/docs/src/reference-verbs.md
index cfa66dd82..b50c97d7d 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-verbs.md
+++ b/docs/src/reference-verbs.md
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ Options:
  -r Treat field names as regular expressions. "ab", "a.*b" will
    match any field name containing the substring "ab" or matching
    "a.*b", respectively; anchors of the form "^ab$", "^a.*b$" may
-   be used. The -o flag is ignored when -r is present.
+   be used.
 -h|--help Show this message.
 Examples:
   mlr cut -f hostname,status
@@ -970,6 +970,10 @@ a,b,c
 
 Usage: mlr filter [options] {DSL expression}
+Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically filter which
+stream records will be output.
+See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs
+
 Options:
 -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
    is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded.
@@ -982,7 +986,7 @@ Options:
 Since the expression pieces are simply concatenated, please be sure to use intervening
 semicolons to separate expressions.)
 
--s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have 
+-s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have
     Thus mlr put -s foo=97 '$column += @foo' is like
     mlr put 'begin {@foo = 97} $column += @foo'.
     The value part is subject to type-inferencing.
@@ -1460,6 +1464,8 @@ for the old string and handling multiple matches, like the `gsub` DSL function.
 See also the `sub` and `ssub` verbs.
 Options:
 -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+-a          Convert all fields.
 -h|--help   Show this message.
 
@@ -1707,7 +1713,7 @@ be specified CSV as well unless you override with 'mlr --csv ... join --ijson -l Likewise, if you have 'mlr --csv --implicit-csv-header ...' then the join-in file will be expected to be headerless as well unless you put '--no-implicit-csv-header' after 'join'. Please use "mlr --usage-separator-options" for information on specifying separators. -Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs.html#join for more information +Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs#join for more information including examples.
@@ -2089,6 +2095,7 @@ Options: antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie sum Compute sums of specified fields mean Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields + mad Compute mean absolute deviation var Compute sample variance of specified fields stddev Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields meaneb Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation) @@ -2301,6 +2308,9 @@ Options:
 Usage: mlr put [options] {DSL expression}
+Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically alter stream records.
+See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs
+
 Options:
 -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
    is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded.
@@ -2313,7 +2323,7 @@ Options:
 Since the expression pieces are simply concatenated, please be sure to use intervening
 semicolons to separate expressions.)
 
--s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have 
+-s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have
     Thus mlr put -s foo=97 '$column += @foo' is like
     mlr put 'begin {@foo = 97} $column += @foo'.
     The value part is subject to type-inferencing.
@@ -2455,9 +2465,9 @@ Options:
            first-match replacement.
 -h|--help Show this message.
 Examples:
-mlr rename old_name,new_name'
-mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2'
-mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date,'  Rename all such fields to be "Date"
+mlr rename old_name,new_name
+mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2
+mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date'  Rename all such fields to be "Date"
 mlr rename -r '"Date_[0-9]+",Date' Same
 mlr rename -r 'Date_([0-9]+).*,\1' Rename all such fields to be of the form 20151015
 mlr rename -r '"name"i,Name'       Rename "name", "Name", "NAME", etc. to "Name"
@@ -2950,6 +2960,7 @@ Options:
 -nf {comma-separated field names}  Same as -n
 -nr {comma-separated field names}  Numerical descending; nulls sort first
 -t  {comma-separated field names}  Natural ascending
+-b                                 Move sort fields to start of record, as in reorder -b
 -tr|-rt {comma-separated field names}  Natural descending
 -h|--help Show this message.
 
@@ -3126,6 +3137,23 @@ a b c
 9 8 7
 
+## sparsify + +
+mlr sparsify --help
+
+
+Usage: mlr sparsify [options]
+Unsets fields for which the key is the empty string (or, optionally, another
+specified value). Only makes sense with output format not being CSV or TSV.
+Options:
+-s {filler string} What values to remove. Defaults to the empty string.
+-f {a,b,c} Specify field names to be operated on; any other fields won't be
+           modified. The default is to modify all fields.
+-h|--help  Show this message.
+Example: if input is a=1,b=,c=3 then output is a=1,c=3.
+
+ ## split
@@ -3185,6 +3213,8 @@ Replaces old string with new string in specified field(s), without regex support
 the old string, like the `ssub` DSL function. See also the `gsub` and `sub` verbs.
 Options:
 -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+-a          Convert all fields.
 -h|--help   Show this message.
 
@@ -3242,6 +3272,7 @@ Options: antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie sum Compute sums of specified fields mean Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields + mad Compute mean absolute deviation var Compute sample variance of specified fields stddev Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields meaneb Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation) @@ -3276,7 +3307,7 @@ Options: Example: mlr stats1 -a min,p10,p50,p90,max -f value -g size,shape Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size -g shape -Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' -gr '^k.*$' +Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' --gr '^k.*$' This computes count and mode statistics on all field names beginning with a through h, grouped by all field names starting with k. @@ -3409,14 +3440,14 @@ fields, optionally categorized by one or more fields. data/medium
-x_y_cov    0.000042574820827444476
-x_y_corr   0.0005042001844467462
-y_y_cov    0.08461122467974003
+x_y_cov    0.00004257482082749404
+x_y_corr   0.0005042001844473328
+y_y_cov    0.08461122467974005
 y_y_corr   1
-x2_xy_cov  0.04188382281779374
-x2_xy_corr 0.630174342037994
-x2_y2_cov  -0.00030953725962542085
-x2_y2_corr -0.0034249088761121966
+x2_xy_cov  0.041883822817793716
+x2_xy_corr 0.6301743420379936
+x2_y2_cov  -0.0003095372596253918
+x2_y2_corr -0.003424908876111875
 
@@ -3425,12 +3456,12 @@ x2_y2_corr -0.0034249088761121966
   data/medium
 
-a   x_y_ols_m             x_y_ols_b           x_y_ols_n x_y_r2                  y_y_ols_m y_y_ols_b y_y_ols_n y_y_r2 xy_y2_ols_m        xy_y2_ols_b         xy_y2_ols_n xy_y2_r2
-pan 0.01702551273681908   0.5004028922897639  2081      0.00028691820445814767  1         0         2081      1      0.8781320866715662 0.11908230147563566 2081        0.41749827377311266
-eks 0.0407804923685586    0.48140207967651016 1965      0.0016461239223448587   1         0         1965      1      0.8978728611690183 0.10734054433612333 1965        0.45563223864254526
-wye -0.03915349075204814  0.5255096523974456  1966      0.0015051268704373607   1         0         1966      1      0.8538317334220835 0.1267454301662969  1966        0.38991721818599295
-zee 0.0027812364960399147 0.5043070448033061  2047      0.000007751652858786137 1         0         2047      1      0.8524439912011013 0.12401684308018937 2047        0.39356598090006495
-hat -0.018620577041095078 0.5179005397264935  1941      0.0003520036646055585   1         0         1941      1      0.8412305086345014 0.13557328318623216 1941        0.3687944261732265
+a   x_y_ols_m             x_y_ols_b          x_y_ols_n x_y_r2                  y_y_ols_m y_y_ols_b                           y_y_ols_n y_y_r2 xy_y2_ols_m        xy_y2_ols_b         xy_y2_ols_n xy_y2_r2
+pan 0.017025512736819345  0.500402892289764  2081      0.00028691820445815624  1         -0.00000000000000002890430283104539 2081      1      0.8781320866715664 0.11908230147563569 2081        0.4174982737731127
+eks 0.04078049236855813   0.4814020796765104 1965      0.0016461239223448218   1         0.00000000000000017862676354313703  1965      1      0.897872861169018  0.1073405443361234  1965        0.4556322386425451
+wye -0.03915349075204785  0.5255096523974457 1966      0.0015051268704373377   1         0.00000000000000004464425401127647  1966      1      0.8538317334220837 0.1267454301662969  1966        0.3899172181859931
+zee 0.0027812364960401333 0.5043070448033061 2047      0.000007751652858787357 1         0.00000000000000004819404567023685  2047      1      0.8524439912011011 0.12401684308018947 2047        0.39356598090006495
+hat -0.018620577041095272 0.5179005397264937 1941      0.00035200366460556604  1         -0.00000000000000003400445761787692 1941      1      0.8412305086345017 0.13557328318623207 1941        0.3687944261732266
 
Here's an example simple line-fit. The `x` and `y` @@ -3516,11 +3547,11 @@ upsec_count_pca_quality 0.9999590846136102 donesec 92.33051350964094 color purple -upsec_count_pca_m -39.03009744795354 -upsec_count_pca_b 979.9883413064914 +upsec_count_pca_m -39.030097447953594 +upsec_count_pca_b 979.9883413064917 upsec_count_pca_n 21 upsec_count_pca_quality 0.9999908956206317 -donesec 25.10852919630297 +donesec 25.108529196302943
## step @@ -3688,6 +3719,8 @@ for the old string and not handling multiple matches, like the `sub` DSL functio See also the `gsub` and `ssub` verbs. Options: -f {a,b,c} Field names to convert. +-r {regex} Regular expression for field names to convert. +-a Convert all fields. -h|--help Show this message.
@@ -3770,6 +3803,7 @@ Options: -a {mean,sum,etc.} Use only the specified summarizers. -x {mean,sum,etc.} Use all summarizers, except the specified ones. --all Use all available summarizers. +--transpose Show output with field names as column names.. -h|--help Show this message.
@@ -3797,9 +3831,9 @@ distinct_count 5 5 10000 10000 10000 mode pan wye 1 0.3467901443380824 0.7268028627434533 sum 0 0 50005000 4986.019681679581 5062.057444929905 mean - - 5000.5 0.49860196816795804 0.5062057444929905 -stddev - - 2886.8956799071675 0.2902925151144007 0.290880086426933 -var - - 8334166.666666667 0.08426974433144456 0.08461122467974003 -skewness - - 0 -0.0006899591185521965 -0.017849760120133784 +stddev - - 2886.8956799071675 0.29029251511440074 0.2908800864269331 +var - - 8334166.666666667 0.08426974433144457 0.08461122467974005 +skewness - - 0 -0.0006899591185517494 -0.01784976012013298 minlen 3 3 1 15 13 maxlen 3 3 5 22 22 min eks eks 1 0.00004509679127584487 0.00008818962627266114 @@ -3824,6 +3858,21 @@ mean - - 5000.5 0.49860196816795804 0.5062057444929905 median pan pan 5001 0.5011592202840128 0.5060212582772865
+## surv + +
+mlr surv --help
+
+
+Usage: mlr surv -d {duration-field} -s {status-field}
+
+Estimate Kaplan-Meier survival curve (right-censored).
+Options:
+  -d {field}   Name of duration field (time-to-event or censoring).
+  -s {field}   Name of status field (0=censored, 1=event).
+  -h, --help   Show this message.
+
+ ## tac
@@ -4085,7 +4134,7 @@ There are two main ways to use `mlr uniq`: the first way is with `-g` to specify
 wc -l data/colored-shapes.csv
 
-   10079 data/colored-shapes.csv
+10079 data/colored-shapes.csv
 
@@ -4242,7 +4291,7 @@ color=purple,shape=square,flag=0
 wc -l data/repeats.dkvp
 
-      57 data/repeats.dkvp
+57 data/repeats.dkvp
 
diff --git a/docs/src/reference-verbs.md.in b/docs/src/reference-verbs.md.in
index 44feda3de..5f6f31097 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference-verbs.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/reference-verbs.md.in
@@ -995,6 +995,12 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --ijson --opprint sort-within-records data/sort-within-records.json
 GENMD-EOF
 
+## sparsify
+
+GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
+mlr sparsify --help
+GENMD-EOF
+
 ## split
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
@@ -1155,6 +1161,12 @@ GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
 mlr --from data/medium --opprint summary --transpose -a mean,median,mode
 GENMD-EOF
 
+## surv
+
+GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
+mlr surv --help
+GENMD-EOF
+
 ## tac
 
 GENMD-RUN-COMMAND
diff --git a/docs/src/release-docs.md b/docs/src/release-docs.md
index 85a13d804..22924b141 100644
--- a/docs/src/release-docs.md
+++ b/docs/src/release-docs.md
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@ If your `mlr version` says something like `Miller v5.10.2` or `mlr 6.0.0`, witho
 | Release | Docs                                                                | Release notes |
 |---------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------|
 main      | [main branch](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/main)                | N/A |
-6.10.0     | [Miller 6.10.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.10.0)           | [Add --files option; bugfixes; use Go 1.110](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.10.0) |
+6.14.0     | [Miller 6.14.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.14.0)           | [Survival curve, misc. features and bugfixes](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.14.0) |
+6.13.0     | [Miller 6.13.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.13.0)           | [File-stat DSL function, new stats accumulator, misc. bugfixes](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.13.0) |
+6.12.0     | [Miller 6.12.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.12.0)           | [New sparsify verb, wide-table performance improvement, thousands separator for fmtnum function](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.12.0) |
+6.11.0     | [Miller 6.11.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.11.0)           | [CSV/TSV auto-unsparsify, regex-fieldname support for reorder/sub/ssub/gsub, strmatch DSL function, and more](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.11.0) |
+6.10.0     | [Miller 6.10.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.10.0)           | [Add --files option; bugfixes; use Go 1.19](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.10.0) |
 6.9.0     | [Miller 6.9.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.9.0)              | [Nanosecond timestamps, ZSTD compression, improved data-error handling, and more](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.9.0) |
 6.8.0     | [Miller 6.8.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.8.0)              | [New case verb, index DSL function, and more](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.8.0) |
 6.7.0     | [Miller 6.7.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.7.0)              | [New leftpad/rightpad DSL functions, unspace verb, and more](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.7.0) |
diff --git a/docs/src/release-docs.md.in b/docs/src/release-docs.md.in
index e82b42755..4b89cf87d 100644
--- a/docs/src/release-docs.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/release-docs.md.in
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ If your `mlr version` says something like `Miller v5.10.2` or `mlr 6.0.0`, witho
 | Release | Docs                                                                | Release notes |
 |---------|---------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------|
 main      | [main branch](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/main)                | N/A |
-6.10.0     | [Miller 6.10.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.10.0)           | [Add --files option; bugfixes; use Go 1.110](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.10.0) |
+6.14.0     | [Miller 6.14.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.14.0)           | [Survival curve, misc. features and bugfixes](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.14.0) |
+6.13.0     | [Miller 6.13.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.13.0)           | [File-stat DSL function, new stats accumulator, misc. bugfixes](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.13.0) |
+6.12.0     | [Miller 6.12.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.12.0)           | [New sparsify verb, wide-table performance improvement, thousands separator for fmtnum function](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.12.0) |
+6.11.0     | [Miller 6.11.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.11.0)           | [CSV/TSV auto-unsparsify, regex-fieldname support for reorder/sub/ssub/gsub, strmatch DSL function, and more](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.11.0) |
+6.10.0     | [Miller 6.10.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.10.0)           | [Add --files option; bugfixes; use Go 1.19](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.10.0) |
 6.9.0     | [Miller 6.9.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.9.0)              | [Nanosecond timestamps, ZSTD compression, improved data-error handling, and more](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.9.0) |
 6.8.0     | [Miller 6.8.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.8.0)              | [New case verb, index DSL function, and more](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.8.0) |
 6.7.0     | [Miller 6.7.0](https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/6.7.0)              | [New leftpad/rightpad DSL functions, unspace verb, and more](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/tag/v6.7.0) |
diff --git a/docs/src/scripting.md b/docs/src/scripting.md
index 71c6b22a0..4766dcb50 100644
--- a/docs/src/scripting.md
+++ b/docs/src/scripting.md
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ then fraction -f count
 
 Points:
 
-* Same as above, where the `#!` line isn't needed. (But you can include a `#!` line; `mlr -s` will simply see it as a comment line.).
+* Same as above, where the `#!` line isn't needed. (But you can include a `#!` line; `mlr -s` will simply see it as a comment line.)
 * As above, you don't need all the backslashing for line-continuations.
 * As above, you don't need the explicit `--` or `"$@"`.
 
diff --git a/docs/src/scripting.md.in b/docs/src/scripting.md.in
index 3234c9398..f29fe8b63 100644
--- a/docs/src/scripting.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/scripting.md.in
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 Points:
 
-* Same as above, where the `#!` line isn't needed. (But you can include a `#!` line; `mlr -s` will simply see it as a comment line.).
+* Same as above, where the `#!` line isn't needed. (But you can include a `#!` line; `mlr -s` will simply see it as a comment line.)
 * As above, you don't need all the backslashing for line-continuations.
 * As above, you don't need the explicit `--` or `"$@"`.
 
diff --git a/docs/src/sorting.md b/docs/src/sorting.md
index 68e1f4a02..7d876eda2 100644
--- a/docs/src/sorting.md
+++ b/docs/src/sorting.md
@@ -214,6 +214,8 @@ a b c
 
 ## The sort function by example
 
+The Miller DSL has a [`sort`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#sort) function:
+
 * It returns a sorted copy of an input array or map.
 * Without second argument, uses Miller's default ordering which is numbers numerically, then strings lexically.
 * With second which is string, takes sorting flags from it: `"f"` for lexical or `"c"` for case-folded lexical, or `"t"` for natural sort order. An additional `"r"` in this string is for reverse/descending.
diff --git a/docs/src/sorting.md.in b/docs/src/sorting.md.in
index 28617c697..0d59836e9 100644
--- a/docs/src/sorting.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/sorting.md.in
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ GENMD-EOF
 
 ## The sort function by example
 
+The Miller DSL has a [`sort`](reference-dsl-builtin-functions.md#sort) function:
+
 * It returns a sorted copy of an input array or map.
 * Without second argument, uses Miller's default ordering which is numbers numerically, then strings lexically.
 * With second which is string, takes sorting flags from it: `"f"` for lexical or `"c"` for case-folded lexical, or `"t"` for natural sort order. An additional `"r"` in this string is for reverse/descending.
diff --git a/docs/src/structure-of-these-documents.md b/docs/src/structure-of-these-documents.md
index 5d2993ee7..cdaeef8a9 100644
--- a/docs/src/structure-of-these-documents.md
+++ b/docs/src/structure-of-these-documents.md
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ Quick links:
 The goal is _multiple levels of detail_.
 
 * The [Introduction page](index.md) is the shortest: headlines and **essential summary**.
-* The _Getting started_ section is for **new or near-new users** who want some simple examples along with connecting narrative. The goal is to get a new user up and running, able to do some interesting things with their own data.
+* The _Getting started_ section is for **new or near-new users** who want some simple examples along with a connecting narrative. The goal is to get a new user up and running, enabling them to perform interesting tasks with their own data.
 * The _Miller in more detail_ section is just-past-introductory, **tell-me-more material** about some of the things that make Miller unique: what file formats it handles (and how it handles them), how it relates to other tools in the Unix toolkit, and so on.
 * The _FAQs and examples_ section is non-introductory for people looking for various ways to do things by example. The discussion is pragmatic rather than theoretical, and **use-case-driven**.
 * The _Background_ section is some **non-essential historical** and meta material on why Miller was created.
-* The _Reference_ section aims to answer all questions the previous sections didn't. The discussion is **concept-driven**, although there are still plenty of examples throughout for concreteness.
-    * _Main reference_ goes carefully through various aspects of Miller, concept by concept.
-    * _DSL reference_ focuses on the [Miller programming language](miller-programming-language.md), again following a concept-at-a-time approach.
-    * _Misc. reference_ is aptly named, with things like build-from-source notes.
-    * _Documents for previous releases_ is not only for historical curiosity -- experience has shown that various Linux/BSD distros update their Miller versions on their own cadences, so the version on your system (as shown by `mlr --version`) might be best-served by its respective documentation version.
-* Lastly, new with the Miller 6 documents is a very easy-to-access **Search field** at the top of each page.
+* The _Reference_ section aims to answer all questions that the previous sections didn't. The discussion is **concept-driven**, although it includes numerous examples throughout for concreteness.
+    * The main reference carefully examines various aspects of Miller, concept by concept.
+    * The _DSL reference_ focuses on the [Miller programming language](miller-programming-language.md), again following a concept-at-a-time approach.
+    * The _miscellaneous reference_ is aptly named, with things like build-from-source notes.
+    * _Documents for previous releases_ is not only for historical curiosity -- experience has shown that various Linux/BSD distros update their Miller versions on their own cadences, so the version on your system (as shown by `mlr --version`) might be best served by its respective documentation version.
+* Lastly, new with the Miller 6 documents is an easy-to-access **Search field** at the top of each page.
diff --git a/docs/src/structure-of-these-documents.md.in b/docs/src/structure-of-these-documents.md.in
index 9cb40d3a1..29a558d51 100644
--- a/docs/src/structure-of-these-documents.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/structure-of-these-documents.md.in
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 The goal is _multiple levels of detail_.
 
 * The [Introduction page](index.md) is the shortest: headlines and **essential summary**.
-* The _Getting started_ section is for **new or near-new users** who want some simple examples along with connecting narrative. The goal is to get a new user up and running, able to do some interesting things with their own data.
+* The _Getting started_ section is for **new or near-new users** who want some simple examples along with a connecting narrative. The goal is to get a new user up and running, enabling them to perform interesting tasks with their own data.
 * The _Miller in more detail_ section is just-past-introductory, **tell-me-more material** about some of the things that make Miller unique: what file formats it handles (and how it handles them), how it relates to other tools in the Unix toolkit, and so on.
 * The _FAQs and examples_ section is non-introductory for people looking for various ways to do things by example. The discussion is pragmatic rather than theoretical, and **use-case-driven**.
 * The _Background_ section is some **non-essential historical** and meta material on why Miller was created.
-* The _Reference_ section aims to answer all questions the previous sections didn't. The discussion is **concept-driven**, although there are still plenty of examples throughout for concreteness.
-    * _Main reference_ goes carefully through various aspects of Miller, concept by concept.
-    * _DSL reference_ focuses on the [Miller programming language](miller-programming-language.md), again following a concept-at-a-time approach.
-    * _Misc. reference_ is aptly named, with things like build-from-source notes.
-    * _Documents for previous releases_ is not only for historical curiosity -- experience has shown that various Linux/BSD distros update their Miller versions on their own cadences, so the version on your system (as shown by `mlr --version`) might be best-served by its respective documentation version.
-* Lastly, new with the Miller 6 documents is a very easy-to-access **Search field** at the top of each page.
+* The _Reference_ section aims to answer all questions that the previous sections didn't. The discussion is **concept-driven**, although it includes numerous examples throughout for concreteness.
+    * The main reference carefully examines various aspects of Miller, concept by concept.
+    * The _DSL reference_ focuses on the [Miller programming language](miller-programming-language.md), again following a concept-at-a-time approach.
+    * The _miscellaneous reference_ is aptly named, with things like build-from-source notes.
+    * _Documents for previous releases_ is not only for historical curiosity -- experience has shown that various Linux/BSD distros update their Miller versions on their own cadences, so the version on your system (as shown by `mlr --version`) might be best served by its respective documentation version.
+* Lastly, new with the Miller 6 documents is an easy-to-access **Search field** at the top of each page.
diff --git a/docs/src/swipes.sh b/docs/src/swipes.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..f5f1064f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/src/swipes.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+for x in *.md.in; do
+    sed -i .emd 's/  *$//' $x
+    rm $x.emd
+done
diff --git a/docs/src/two-pass-algorithms.md b/docs/src/two-pass-algorithms.md
index 146f3a81e..e475aebf3 100644
--- a/docs/src/two-pass-algorithms.md
+++ b/docs/src/two-pass-algorithms.md
@@ -598,8 +598,8 @@ hat pan 0.4643355557376876
 x_count  10000
 x_sum    4986.019681679581
 x_mean   0.49860196816795804
-x_var    0.08426974433144456
-x_stddev 0.2902925151144007
+x_var    0.08426974433144457
+x_stddev 0.29029251511440074
 
diff --git a/docs/src/unix-toolkit-context.md b/docs/src/unix-toolkit-context.md
index 1687f4868..ffc8ede78 100644
--- a/docs/src/unix-toolkit-context.md
+++ b/docs/src/unix-toolkit-context.md
@@ -63,9 +63,9 @@ Likewise with `mlr sort`, `mlr tac`, and so on.
 
 ## awk-like features: mlr filter and mlr put
 
-* `mlr filter` includes/excludes records based on a filter expression, e.g. `mlr filter '$count > 10'`.
+* `mlr filter` includes/excludes records based on a filter expression, e.g., `mlr filter '$count > 10'`.
 
-* `mlr put` adds a new field as a function of others, e.g. `mlr put '$xy = $x * $y'` or `mlr put '$counter = NR'`.
+* `mlr put` adds a new field as a function of others, e.g., `mlr put '$xy = $x * $y'` or `mlr put '$counter = NR'`.
 
 * The `$name` syntax is straight from `awk`'s `$1 $2 $3` (adapted to name-based indexing), as are the variables `FS`, `OFS`, `RS`, `ORS`, `NF`, `NR`, and `FILENAME`. The `ENV[...]` syntax is from Ruby.
 
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Likewise with `mlr sort`, `mlr tac`, and so on.
 
 * Like `awk`, Miller (as of v5.0.0) allows you to define new functions within its `put` and `filter` expression language.  Further programmability comes from chaining with `then`.
 
-* As with `awk`, `$`-variables are stream variables and all verbs (such as `cut`, `stats1`, `put`, etc.) as well as `put`/`filter` statements operate on streams.  This means that you define actions to be done on each record and then stream your data through those actions.  The built-in variables `NF`, `NR`, etc.  change from one record to another, `$x` is a label for field `x` in the current record, and the input to `sqrt($x)` changes from one record to the next.  The expression language for the `put` and `filter` verbs additionally allows you to define `begin {...}` and `end {...}` blocks for actions to be taken before and after records are processed, respectively.
+* As with `awk`, `$`-variables are stream variables and all verbs (such as `cut`, `stats1`, `put`, etc.) as well as `put`/`filter` statements operate on streams.  This means that you define actions to be done on each record and then stream your data through those actions.  The built-in variables `NF`, `NR`, etc.,  change from one record to another, `$x` is a label for field `x` in the current record, and the input to `sqrt($x)` changes from one record to the next.  The expression language for the `put` and `filter` verbs additionally allows you to define `begin {...}` and `end {...}` blocks for actions to be taken before and after records are processed, respectively.
 
 * As with `awk`, Miller's `put`/`filter` language lets you set `@sum=0` before records are read, then update that sum on each record, then print its value at the end.  Unlike `awk`, Miller makes syntactically explicit the difference between variables with extent across all records (names starting with `@`, such as `@sum`) and variables which are local to the current expression invocation (names starting without `@`, such as `sum`).
 
diff --git a/docs/src/unix-toolkit-context.md.in b/docs/src/unix-toolkit-context.md.in
index bea7b27f3..14da2d777 100644
--- a/docs/src/unix-toolkit-context.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/unix-toolkit-context.md.in
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ Likewise with `mlr sort`, `mlr tac`, and so on.
 
 ## awk-like features: mlr filter and mlr put
 
-* `mlr filter` includes/excludes records based on a filter expression, e.g. `mlr filter '$count > 10'`.
+* `mlr filter` includes/excludes records based on a filter expression, e.g., `mlr filter '$count > 10'`.
 
-* `mlr put` adds a new field as a function of others, e.g. `mlr put '$xy = $x * $y'` or `mlr put '$counter = NR'`.
+* `mlr put` adds a new field as a function of others, e.g., `mlr put '$xy = $x * $y'` or `mlr put '$counter = NR'`.
 
 * The `$name` syntax is straight from `awk`'s `$1 $2 $3` (adapted to name-based indexing), as are the variables `FS`, `OFS`, `RS`, `ORS`, `NF`, `NR`, and `FILENAME`. The `ENV[...]` syntax is from Ruby.
 
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Likewise with `mlr sort`, `mlr tac`, and so on.
 
 * Like `awk`, Miller (as of v5.0.0) allows you to define new functions within its `put` and `filter` expression language.  Further programmability comes from chaining with `then`.
 
-* As with `awk`, `$`-variables are stream variables and all verbs (such as `cut`, `stats1`, `put`, etc.) as well as `put`/`filter` statements operate on streams.  This means that you define actions to be done on each record and then stream your data through those actions.  The built-in variables `NF`, `NR`, etc.  change from one record to another, `$x` is a label for field `x` in the current record, and the input to `sqrt($x)` changes from one record to the next.  The expression language for the `put` and `filter` verbs additionally allows you to define `begin {...}` and `end {...}` blocks for actions to be taken before and after records are processed, respectively.
+* As with `awk`, `$`-variables are stream variables and all verbs (such as `cut`, `stats1`, `put`, etc.) as well as `put`/`filter` statements operate on streams.  This means that you define actions to be done on each record and then stream your data through those actions.  The built-in variables `NF`, `NR`, etc.,  change from one record to another, `$x` is a label for field `x` in the current record, and the input to `sqrt($x)` changes from one record to the next.  The expression language for the `put` and `filter` verbs additionally allows you to define `begin {...}` and `end {...}` blocks for actions to be taken before and after records are processed, respectively.
 
 * As with `awk`, Miller's `put`/`filter` language lets you set `@sum=0` before records are read, then update that sum on each record, then print its value at the end.  Unlike `awk`, Miller makes syntactically explicit the difference between variables with extent across all records (names starting with `@`, such as `@sum`) and variables which are local to the current expression invocation (names starting without `@`, such as `sum`).
 
diff --git a/docs/src/why.md b/docs/src/why.md
index 937bd0386..aa00458be 100644
--- a/docs/src/why.md
+++ b/docs/src/why.md
@@ -20,44 +20,44 @@ Someone asked me the other day about design, tradeoffs, thought process, why I f
 
 ## Who is Miller for?
 
-For background, I'm a software engineer, with a heavy devops bent and a non-trivial amount of data-engineering in my career. **Initially I wrote Miller mainly for myself:** I'm coder-friendly (being a coder); I'm Github-friendly; most of my data are well-structured or easily structurable (TSV-formatted SQL-query output, CSV files, log files, JSON data structures); I care about interoperability between all the various formats Miller supports (I've encountered them all); I do all my work on Linux or OS X.
+For background, I'm a software engineer with a heavy devops bent and a non-trivial amount of data engineering in my career. **Initially, I wrote Miller mainly for myself:** I'm coder-friendly (being a coder); I'm Github-friendly; most of my data is either well-structured or easily structurable (TSV-formatted SQL-query output, CSV files, log files, JSON data structures); I care about interoperability between all the various formats Miller supports (I've encountered them all); I do all my work on Linux or OS X.
 
-But now there's this neat little tool **which seems to be useful for people in various disciplines**. I don't even know entirely *who*. I can click through Github starrers and read a bit about what they seem to do, but not everyone that uses Miller is even *on* Github (or stars things). I've gotten a lot of feature requests through Github -- but only from people who are Github users.  Not everyone's a coder (it seems like a lot of Miller's Github starrers are devops folks like myself, or data-science-ish people, or biology/genomics folks.) A lot of people care 100% about CSV. And so on.
+But now there's this neat little tool **which seems to be useful for people in various disciplines**. I don't even know entirely *who*. I can click through Github starrers and read a bit about what they seem to do, but not everyone who uses Miller is even *on* Github (or stars things). I've gotten a lot of feature requests through Github -- but only from people who are Github users.  Not everyone's a coder (it seems like many of Miller's Github starrers are devops folks like myself, or data-science-ish people, or biology/genomics folks.) A lot of people care 100% about CSV. And so on.
 
-So the reason for the [Miller User Survey](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/discussions/542) is to answer questions such as: does Miller do what you need? Do you use it for all sorts of things, or just one or two nice things? Are there things you wish it did but it doesn't? Is it almost there, or just nowhere near what you want? Are there not enough features or way too many? Are the docs too complicated; do you have a hard time finding out how to do what you want? Should I think differently about what this tool even *is* in the first place? Should I think differently about who it's for?
+So the reason for the [Miller User Survey](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/discussions/542) is to answer questions such as: does Miller do what you need? Do you use it for all sorts of things, or just one or two nice things? Are there things you wish it did, but it doesn't? Is it almost there, or just nowhere near what you want? Are there not enough features or way too many? Are the docs too complicated? Do you have a hard time finding out how to do what you want? Should I think differently about what this tool even *is* in the first place? Should I think differently about who it's for?
 
 ## What was Miller created to do?
 
-First: there are tools like `xsv` which handles CSV marvelously and `jq` which handles JSON marvelously, and so on -- but I over the years of my career in the software industry I've found myself, and others, doing a lot of ad-hoc things which really were fundamentally the same *except* for format. So the number one thing about Miller is doing common things while supporting **multiple formats**: (a) ingest a list of records where a record is a list of key-value pairs (however represented in the input files); (b) transform that stream of records; (c) emit the transformed stream -- either in the same format as input, or in a different format.
+The first thing: there are tools like `xsv` which handles CSV marvelously and `jq` which handles JSON marvelously, and so on -- but I over the years of my career in the software industry I've found myself, and others, doing a lot of ad-hoc things which were fundamentally the same *except* for format. So the number one thing about Miller is doing common things while supporting **multiple formats**: (a) ingest a list of records where a record is a list of key-value pairs (however represented in the input files); (b) transform that stream of records; (c) emit the transformed stream -- either in the same format as input, or in a different format.
 
-Second thing, a lot like the first: just as I didn't want to build something only for a single file format, I didn't want to build something only for one problem domain. In my work doing software engineering, devops, data engineering, etc. I saw a lot of commonalities and I wanted to **solve as many problems simultaneously as possible**.
+The second thing is a lot like the first: just as I didn't want to build something only for a single file format, I didn't want to build something only for one problem domain. In my work doing software engineering, devops, data engineering, etc. I saw a lot of commonalities, and I wanted to **solve as many problems simultaneously as possible**.
 
-Third: it had to be **streaming**. As time goes by and we (some of us, sometimes) have machines with tens or hundreds of GB of RAM, it's maybe less important, but I'm unhappy with tools which ingest all data, then do stuff, then emit all data. One reason is to be able to handle files bigger than available RAM. Another reason is to be able to handle input which trickles in, e.g.  you have some process emitting data now and then and you can pipe it to Miller and it will emit transformed records one at a time.
+Third: it had to be **streaming**. As time goes by and we (some of us, sometimes) have machines with tens or hundreds of GB of RAM, it's less important, but I'm unhappy with tools that ingest all data, then do stuff, then emit all data. One reason is to be able to handle files bigger than available RAM. Another reason is to be able to handle input which trickles in, e.g., you have some process emitting data now and then, and you can pipe it to Miller and it will emit transformed records one at a time.
 
-Fourth: it had to be **fast**. This precludes all sorts of very nice things written in Ruby, for example. I love Ruby as a very expressive language, and I have several very useful little utility scripts written in Ruby. But a few years ago I ported over some of my old tried-and-true C programs and the lines-of-code count was a *lot* lower -- it was great! Until I ran them on multi-GB files and realized they took 60x as long to complete.  So I couldn't write Miller in Ruby, or in languages like it. I was going to have to do something in a low-level language in order to make it performant.
+Fourth: it had to be **fast**. This precludes all sorts of very nice things written in Ruby, for example. I love Ruby as a very expressive language, and I have several very useful little utility scripts written in Ruby. But a few years ago, I ported over some of my old tried-and-true C programs and the lines-of-code count was a *lot* lower -- it was great! Until I ran them on multi-GB files and realized they took 60x as long to complete.  So I couldn't write Miller in Ruby, or languages like it. I was going to have to do something in a low-level language in order to make it performant.
 
-Fifth thing: I wanted Miller to be **pipe-friendly and interoperate with other command-line tools**.  Since the basic paradigm is ingest records, transform records, emit records -- where the input and output formats can be the same or different, and the transform can be complex, or just pass-through -- this means you can use it to transform data, or re-format it, or both. So if you just want to do data-cleaning/prep/formatting and do all the "real" work in R, you can. If you just want a little glue script between other tools you can get that. And if you want to do non-trivial data-reduction in Miller you can.
+The fifth thing: I wanted Miller to be **pipe-friendly and interoperate with other command-line tools**.  Since the basic paradigm is ingest records, transform records, emit records -- where the input and output formats can be the same or different, and the transform can be complex, or just pass-through -- this means you can use it to transform data, or re-format it, or both. So if you just want to do data-cleaning/prep/formatting and do all the "real" work in R, you can. If you want a little glue script between other tools, you can get that. And if you want to do non-trivial data-reduction in Miller, you can.
 
-Sixth thing: Must have **comprehensive documentation and unit-test**. Since Miller handles a lot of formats and solves a lot of problems, there's a lot to test and a lot to keep working correctly as I add features or optimize. And I wanted it to be able to explain itself -- not only through web docs like the one you're reading but also through `man mlr` and `mlr --help`, `mlr sort --help`, etc.
+Sixth thing: Must have **comprehensive documentation and unit-test**. Since Miller handles a wide range of formats and solves numerous problems, there's a lot to test and a lot to keep working correctly as I add features or optimize. And I wanted it to be able to explain itself -- not only through web docs like the one you're reading but also through `man mlr` and `mlr --help`, `mlr sort --help`, etc.
 
-Seventh thing: **Must have a domain-specific language** (DSL) **but also must let you do common things without it**. All those little verbs Miller has to help you *avoid* having to write for-loops are great. I use them for keystroke-saving: `mlr stats1 -a mean,stddev,min,max -f quantity`, for example, without you having to write for-loops or define accumulator variables. But you also have to be able to break out of that and write arbitrary code when you want to: `mlr put '$distance = $rate * $time'` or anything else you can think up. In Perl/AWK/etc.  it's all DSL. In xsv et al.  it's all verbs. In Miller I like having the combination.
+Seventh thing: **Must have a domain-specific language** (DSL) **but also must let you do everyday things without it**. All those little verbs Miller has to help you *avoid* having to write for-loops are great. I use them for keystroke-saving: `mlr stats1 -a mean,stddev,min,max -f quantity`, for example, without you having to write for-loops or define accumulator variables. But you also have to be able to break out of that and write arbitrary code when you want to: `mlr put '$distance = $rate * $time'` or anything else you can think up. In Perl/AWK/etc.  it's all DSL. In xsv et al.  it's all verbs. In Miller, I like having the combination.
 
-Eighth thing: It's an **awful lot of fun to write**. In my experience I didn't find any tools which do multi-format, streaming, efficient, multi-purpose, with DSL and non-DSL, so I wrote one. But I don't guarantee it's unique in the world. It fills a niche in the world (people use it) but it also fills a niche in my life.
+Eighth thing: It's an **awful lot of fun to write**. In my experience, I didn't find any tools that do multi-format, streaming, efficient, multi-purpose, with DSL and non-DSL, so I wrote one. But I don't guarantee it's unique in the world. It fills a niche in the world (people use it), but it also fills a niche in my life.
 
 ## Tradeoffs
 
-Miller is command-line-only by design. People who want a graphical user interface won't find it here.  This is in part (a) accommodating my personal preferences, and in part (b) guided by my experience/belief that the command line is very expressive. Steeper learning curve than a GUI, yes. I consider that price worth paying for the tool-niche which Miller occupies.
+Miller is command-line-only by design. People who want a graphical user interface won't find it here.  This is in part (a) accommodating my personal preferences, and in part (b) guided by my experience/belief that the command line is very expressive. Steeper learning curve than a GUI, yes. That price is worth paying for the tool-niche which Miller occupies.
 
-Another tradeoff: supporting lists of records keeps me supporting only what can be expressed in *all* of those formats. For example, `[1,2,3,4,5]` is valid but unmillerable JSON: the list elements are not records.  So Miller can't (and won't) handle arbitrary JSON -- because Miller only handles tabular data which can be expressed in a variety of formats.
+Another tradeoff: supporting lists of records keeps me supporting only what can be expressed in *all* of those formats. For example, `[1,2,3,4,5]` is valid but unmillerable JSON: the list elements are not records.  So Miller can't (and won't) handle arbitrary JSON -- because Miller only handles tabular data, which can be expressed in a variety of formats.
 
-A third tradeoff is doing build-from-scratch in a low-level language. It'd be quicker to write (but slower to run) if written in a high-level language. If Miller were written in Python, it would be implemented in significantly fewer lines of code than its current Go implementation. The DSL would just be an `eval` of Python code. And it would run slower, but maybe not enough slower to be a problem for most folks. Later I found out about the [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows) tool -- if you find Miller useful, you should check out `rows` as well.
+A third tradeoff is building from scratch in a low-level language. It'd be quicker to write (but slower to run) if written in a high-level language. If Miller were written in Python, it would be implemented in significantly fewer lines of code than its current Go implementation. The DSL would be an `eval` of Python code. And it would run slower, but maybe not slow enough to be a problem for most people. Later, I discovered the [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows) tool -- if you find Miller useful, you should also check out `rows`.
 
-A fourth tradeoff is in the DSL (more visibly so in 5.0.0 but already in pre-5.0.0): how much to make it dynamically typed -- so you can just say `y=x+1` with a minimum number of keystrokes -- vs. having it do a good job of telling you when you've made a typo. This is a common paradigm across *all* languages.  Some like Ruby you don't declare anything and they're quick to code little stuff in but programs of even a few thousand lines (which isn't large in the software world) become insanely unmanageable.  Then, Java at the other extreme, does scale and is very typesafe -- but you have to type in a lot of punctuation, angle brackets, datatypes, repetition, etc. just to be able to get anything done. And some in the middle like Go are typesafe but with type-inference which aim to do the best of both. In the Miller (5.0.0) DSL you get `y=x+1` by default but you can have things like `int y = x+1` etc. so the typesafety is opt-in. See also the [Type-checking page](reference-dsl-variables.md#type-checking) for more information on this.
+A fourth tradeoff is in the DSL (more visibly so in 5.0.0 but already in pre-5.0.0): how much to make it dynamically typed -- so you can just say `y=x+1` with a minimum number of keystrokes -- vs. having it do a good job of telling you when you've made a typo. This is a common paradigm across *all* languages.  In some languages, like Ruby, you don't declare anything, and they're quick to code little stuff in, but programs of even a few thousand lines (which isn't large in the software world) become insanely unmanageable.  Then, Java at the other extreme, does scale and is very typesafe -- but you have to type in a lot of punctuation, angle brackets, datatypes, repetition, etc., just to be able to get anything done. And some in the middle, like Go, are typesafe but with type inference, which aim to do the best of both. In the Miller (5.0.0) DSL, you get `y=x+1` by default, but you can have things like `int y = x+1` etc., so the typesafety is opt-in. See also the [Type-checking page](reference-dsl-variables.md#type-checking) for more information on this.
 
 ## Related tools
 
-Here's a comprehensive list: [https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools](https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools). It doesn't mention [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows) so here's a plug for that as well.
+Here's a comprehensive list: [https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools](https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools). It doesn't mention [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows), so here's a plug for that as well.
 
 ## Moving forward
 
-I originally aimed Miller at people who already know what `sed`/`awk`/`cut`/`sort`/`join` are and wanted some options. But as time goes by I realize that tools like this can be useful to folks who *don't* know what those things are; people who aren't primarily coders; people who are scientists, or data scientists. These days some journalists do data analysis.  So moving forward in terms of docs, I am working on having more cookbook, follow-by-example stuff in addition to the existing language-reference kinds of stuff.  And continuing to seek out input from people who use Miller on where to go next.
+I initially aimed Miller at people who already know what `sed`/`awk`/`cut`/`sort`/`join` are and wanted some options. But as time goes by, I realize that tools like this can be helpful to folks who *don't* know what those things are; people who aren't primarily coders; people who are scientists, or data scientists. These days some journalists do data analysis. Moving forward in terms of docs, I am working on having more cookbook, follow-by-example stuff in addition to the existing language-reference kinds of stuff.  And continuing to seek out input from people who use Miller on where to go next.
diff --git a/docs/src/why.md.in b/docs/src/why.md.in
index e33529ba2..3e176a460 100644
--- a/docs/src/why.md.in
+++ b/docs/src/why.md.in
@@ -4,44 +4,44 @@ Someone asked me the other day about design, tradeoffs, thought process, why I f
 
 ## Who is Miller for?
 
-For background, I'm a software engineer, with a heavy devops bent and a non-trivial amount of data-engineering in my career. **Initially I wrote Miller mainly for myself:** I'm coder-friendly (being a coder); I'm Github-friendly; most of my data are well-structured or easily structurable (TSV-formatted SQL-query output, CSV files, log files, JSON data structures); I care about interoperability between all the various formats Miller supports (I've encountered them all); I do all my work on Linux or OS X.
+For background, I'm a software engineer with a heavy devops bent and a non-trivial amount of data engineering in my career. **Initially, I wrote Miller mainly for myself:** I'm coder-friendly (being a coder); I'm Github-friendly; most of my data is either well-structured or easily structurable (TSV-formatted SQL-query output, CSV files, log files, JSON data structures); I care about interoperability between all the various formats Miller supports (I've encountered them all); I do all my work on Linux or OS X.
 
-But now there's this neat little tool **which seems to be useful for people in various disciplines**. I don't even know entirely *who*. I can click through Github starrers and read a bit about what they seem to do, but not everyone that uses Miller is even *on* Github (or stars things). I've gotten a lot of feature requests through Github -- but only from people who are Github users.  Not everyone's a coder (it seems like a lot of Miller's Github starrers are devops folks like myself, or data-science-ish people, or biology/genomics folks.) A lot of people care 100% about CSV. And so on.
+But now there's this neat little tool **which seems to be useful for people in various disciplines**. I don't even know entirely *who*. I can click through Github starrers and read a bit about what they seem to do, but not everyone who uses Miller is even *on* Github (or stars things). I've gotten a lot of feature requests through Github -- but only from people who are Github users.  Not everyone's a coder (it seems like many of Miller's Github starrers are devops folks like myself, or data-science-ish people, or biology/genomics folks.) A lot of people care 100% about CSV. And so on.
 
-So the reason for the [Miller User Survey](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/discussions/542) is to answer questions such as: does Miller do what you need? Do you use it for all sorts of things, or just one or two nice things? Are there things you wish it did but it doesn't? Is it almost there, or just nowhere near what you want? Are there not enough features or way too many? Are the docs too complicated; do you have a hard time finding out how to do what you want? Should I think differently about what this tool even *is* in the first place? Should I think differently about who it's for?
+So the reason for the [Miller User Survey](https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/discussions/542) is to answer questions such as: does Miller do what you need? Do you use it for all sorts of things, or just one or two nice things? Are there things you wish it did, but it doesn't? Is it almost there, or just nowhere near what you want? Are there not enough features or way too many? Are the docs too complicated? Do you have a hard time finding out how to do what you want? Should I think differently about what this tool even *is* in the first place? Should I think differently about who it's for?
 
 ## What was Miller created to do?
 
-First: there are tools like `xsv` which handles CSV marvelously and `jq` which handles JSON marvelously, and so on -- but I over the years of my career in the software industry I've found myself, and others, doing a lot of ad-hoc things which really were fundamentally the same *except* for format. So the number one thing about Miller is doing common things while supporting **multiple formats**: (a) ingest a list of records where a record is a list of key-value pairs (however represented in the input files); (b) transform that stream of records; (c) emit the transformed stream -- either in the same format as input, or in a different format.
+The first thing: there are tools like `xsv` which handles CSV marvelously and `jq` which handles JSON marvelously, and so on -- but I over the years of my career in the software industry I've found myself, and others, doing a lot of ad-hoc things which were fundamentally the same *except* for format. So the number one thing about Miller is doing common things while supporting **multiple formats**: (a) ingest a list of records where a record is a list of key-value pairs (however represented in the input files); (b) transform that stream of records; (c) emit the transformed stream -- either in the same format as input, or in a different format.
 
-Second thing, a lot like the first: just as I didn't want to build something only for a single file format, I didn't want to build something only for one problem domain. In my work doing software engineering, devops, data engineering, etc. I saw a lot of commonalities and I wanted to **solve as many problems simultaneously as possible**.
+The second thing is a lot like the first: just as I didn't want to build something only for a single file format, I didn't want to build something only for one problem domain. In my work doing software engineering, devops, data engineering, etc. I saw a lot of commonalities, and I wanted to **solve as many problems simultaneously as possible**.
 
-Third: it had to be **streaming**. As time goes by and we (some of us, sometimes) have machines with tens or hundreds of GB of RAM, it's maybe less important, but I'm unhappy with tools which ingest all data, then do stuff, then emit all data. One reason is to be able to handle files bigger than available RAM. Another reason is to be able to handle input which trickles in, e.g.  you have some process emitting data now and then and you can pipe it to Miller and it will emit transformed records one at a time.
+Third: it had to be **streaming**. As time goes by and we (some of us, sometimes) have machines with tens or hundreds of GB of RAM, it's less important, but I'm unhappy with tools that ingest all data, then do stuff, then emit all data. One reason is to be able to handle files bigger than available RAM. Another reason is to be able to handle input which trickles in, e.g., you have some process emitting data now and then, and you can pipe it to Miller and it will emit transformed records one at a time.
 
-Fourth: it had to be **fast**. This precludes all sorts of very nice things written in Ruby, for example. I love Ruby as a very expressive language, and I have several very useful little utility scripts written in Ruby. But a few years ago I ported over some of my old tried-and-true C programs and the lines-of-code count was a *lot* lower -- it was great! Until I ran them on multi-GB files and realized they took 60x as long to complete.  So I couldn't write Miller in Ruby, or in languages like it. I was going to have to do something in a low-level language in order to make it performant.
+Fourth: it had to be **fast**. This precludes all sorts of very nice things written in Ruby, for example. I love Ruby as a very expressive language, and I have several very useful little utility scripts written in Ruby. But a few years ago, I ported over some of my old tried-and-true C programs and the lines-of-code count was a *lot* lower -- it was great! Until I ran them on multi-GB files and realized they took 60x as long to complete.  So I couldn't write Miller in Ruby, or languages like it. I was going to have to do something in a low-level language in order to make it performant.
 
-Fifth thing: I wanted Miller to be **pipe-friendly and interoperate with other command-line tools**.  Since the basic paradigm is ingest records, transform records, emit records -- where the input and output formats can be the same or different, and the transform can be complex, or just pass-through -- this means you can use it to transform data, or re-format it, or both. So if you just want to do data-cleaning/prep/formatting and do all the "real" work in R, you can. If you just want a little glue script between other tools you can get that. And if you want to do non-trivial data-reduction in Miller you can.
+The fifth thing: I wanted Miller to be **pipe-friendly and interoperate with other command-line tools**.  Since the basic paradigm is ingest records, transform records, emit records -- where the input and output formats can be the same or different, and the transform can be complex, or just pass-through -- this means you can use it to transform data, or re-format it, or both. So if you just want to do data-cleaning/prep/formatting and do all the "real" work in R, you can. If you want a little glue script between other tools, you can get that. And if you want to do non-trivial data-reduction in Miller, you can.
 
-Sixth thing: Must have **comprehensive documentation and unit-test**. Since Miller handles a lot of formats and solves a lot of problems, there's a lot to test and a lot to keep working correctly as I add features or optimize. And I wanted it to be able to explain itself -- not only through web docs like the one you're reading but also through `man mlr` and `mlr --help`, `mlr sort --help`, etc.
+Sixth thing: Must have **comprehensive documentation and unit-test**. Since Miller handles a wide range of formats and solves numerous problems, there's a lot to test and a lot to keep working correctly as I add features or optimize. And I wanted it to be able to explain itself -- not only through web docs like the one you're reading but also through `man mlr` and `mlr --help`, `mlr sort --help`, etc.
 
-Seventh thing: **Must have a domain-specific language** (DSL) **but also must let you do common things without it**. All those little verbs Miller has to help you *avoid* having to write for-loops are great. I use them for keystroke-saving: `mlr stats1 -a mean,stddev,min,max -f quantity`, for example, without you having to write for-loops or define accumulator variables. But you also have to be able to break out of that and write arbitrary code when you want to: `mlr put '$distance = $rate * $time'` or anything else you can think up. In Perl/AWK/etc.  it's all DSL. In xsv et al.  it's all verbs. In Miller I like having the combination.
+Seventh thing: **Must have a domain-specific language** (DSL) **but also must let you do everyday things without it**. All those little verbs Miller has to help you *avoid* having to write for-loops are great. I use them for keystroke-saving: `mlr stats1 -a mean,stddev,min,max -f quantity`, for example, without you having to write for-loops or define accumulator variables. But you also have to be able to break out of that and write arbitrary code when you want to: `mlr put '$distance = $rate * $time'` or anything else you can think up. In Perl/AWK/etc.  it's all DSL. In xsv et al.  it's all verbs. In Miller, I like having the combination.
 
-Eighth thing: It's an **awful lot of fun to write**. In my experience I didn't find any tools which do multi-format, streaming, efficient, multi-purpose, with DSL and non-DSL, so I wrote one. But I don't guarantee it's unique in the world. It fills a niche in the world (people use it) but it also fills a niche in my life.
+Eighth thing: It's an **awful lot of fun to write**. In my experience, I didn't find any tools that do multi-format, streaming, efficient, multi-purpose, with DSL and non-DSL, so I wrote one. But I don't guarantee it's unique in the world. It fills a niche in the world (people use it), but it also fills a niche in my life.
 
 ## Tradeoffs
 
-Miller is command-line-only by design. People who want a graphical user interface won't find it here.  This is in part (a) accommodating my personal preferences, and in part (b) guided by my experience/belief that the command line is very expressive. Steeper learning curve than a GUI, yes. I consider that price worth paying for the tool-niche which Miller occupies.
+Miller is command-line-only by design. People who want a graphical user interface won't find it here.  This is in part (a) accommodating my personal preferences, and in part (b) guided by my experience/belief that the command line is very expressive. Steeper learning curve than a GUI, yes. That price is worth paying for the tool-niche which Miller occupies.
 
-Another tradeoff: supporting lists of records keeps me supporting only what can be expressed in *all* of those formats. For example, `[1,2,3,4,5]` is valid but unmillerable JSON: the list elements are not records.  So Miller can't (and won't) handle arbitrary JSON -- because Miller only handles tabular data which can be expressed in a variety of formats.
+Another tradeoff: supporting lists of records keeps me supporting only what can be expressed in *all* of those formats. For example, `[1,2,3,4,5]` is valid but unmillerable JSON: the list elements are not records.  So Miller can't (and won't) handle arbitrary JSON -- because Miller only handles tabular data, which can be expressed in a variety of formats.
 
-A third tradeoff is doing build-from-scratch in a low-level language. It'd be quicker to write (but slower to run) if written in a high-level language. If Miller were written in Python, it would be implemented in significantly fewer lines of code than its current Go implementation. The DSL would just be an `eval` of Python code. And it would run slower, but maybe not enough slower to be a problem for most folks. Later I found out about the [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows) tool -- if you find Miller useful, you should check out `rows` as well.
+A third tradeoff is building from scratch in a low-level language. It'd be quicker to write (but slower to run) if written in a high-level language. If Miller were written in Python, it would be implemented in significantly fewer lines of code than its current Go implementation. The DSL would be an `eval` of Python code. And it would run slower, but maybe not slow enough to be a problem for most people. Later, I discovered the [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows) tool -- if you find Miller useful, you should also check out `rows`.
 
-A fourth tradeoff is in the DSL (more visibly so in 5.0.0 but already in pre-5.0.0): how much to make it dynamically typed -- so you can just say `y=x+1` with a minimum number of keystrokes -- vs. having it do a good job of telling you when you've made a typo. This is a common paradigm across *all* languages.  Some like Ruby you don't declare anything and they're quick to code little stuff in but programs of even a few thousand lines (which isn't large in the software world) become insanely unmanageable.  Then, Java at the other extreme, does scale and is very typesafe -- but you have to type in a lot of punctuation, angle brackets, datatypes, repetition, etc. just to be able to get anything done. And some in the middle like Go are typesafe but with type-inference which aim to do the best of both. In the Miller (5.0.0) DSL you get `y=x+1` by default but you can have things like `int y = x+1` etc. so the typesafety is opt-in. See also the [Type-checking page](reference-dsl-variables.md#type-checking) for more information on this.
+A fourth tradeoff is in the DSL (more visibly so in 5.0.0 but already in pre-5.0.0): how much to make it dynamically typed -- so you can just say `y=x+1` with a minimum number of keystrokes -- vs. having it do a good job of telling you when you've made a typo. This is a common paradigm across *all* languages.  In some languages, like Ruby, you don't declare anything, and they're quick to code little stuff in, but programs of even a few thousand lines (which isn't large in the software world) become insanely unmanageable.  Then, Java at the other extreme, does scale and is very typesafe -- but you have to type in a lot of punctuation, angle brackets, datatypes, repetition, etc., just to be able to get anything done. And some in the middle, like Go, are typesafe but with type inference, which aim to do the best of both. In the Miller (5.0.0) DSL, you get `y=x+1` by default, but you can have things like `int y = x+1` etc., so the typesafety is opt-in. See also the [Type-checking page](reference-dsl-variables.md#type-checking) for more information on this.
 
 ## Related tools
 
-Here's a comprehensive list: [https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools](https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools). It doesn't mention [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows) so here's a plug for that as well.
+Here's a comprehensive list: [https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools](https://github.com/dbohdan/structured-text-tools). It doesn't mention [rows](https://github.com/turicas/rows), so here's a plug for that as well.
 
 ## Moving forward
 
-I originally aimed Miller at people who already know what `sed`/`awk`/`cut`/`sort`/`join` are and wanted some options. But as time goes by I realize that tools like this can be useful to folks who *don't* know what those things are; people who aren't primarily coders; people who are scientists, or data scientists. These days some journalists do data analysis.  So moving forward in terms of docs, I am working on having more cookbook, follow-by-example stuff in addition to the existing language-reference kinds of stuff.  And continuing to seek out input from people who use Miller on where to go next.
+I initially aimed Miller at people who already know what `sed`/`awk`/`cut`/`sort`/`join` are and wanted some options. But as time goes by, I realize that tools like this can be helpful to folks who *don't* know what those things are; people who aren't primarily coders; people who are scientists, or data scientists. These days some journalists do data analysis. Moving forward in terms of docs, I am working on having more cookbook, follow-by-example stuff in addition to the existing language-reference kinds of stuff.  And continuing to seek out input from people who use Miller on where to go next.
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index c5a7600fd..10b971673 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-module github.com/johnkerl/miller
+module github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6
 
 // The repo is 'miller' and the executable is 'mlr', going back many years and
 // predating the Go port.
@@ -7,35 +7,39 @@ module github.com/johnkerl/miller
 // executable would be 'miller' not 'mlr'.
 //
 // So we have cmd/mlr/main.go:
-// * go build   github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr
-// * go install github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr
+// * go build   github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr
+// * go install github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr
 
 // go get github.com/johnkerl/lumin@v1.0.0
 // Local development:
 // replace github.com/johnkerl/lumin => /Users/kerl/git/johnkerl/lumin
 
-go 1.19
+go 1.24.0
 
 require (
 	github.com/facette/natsort v0.0.0-20181210072756-2cd4dd1e2dcb
 	github.com/johnkerl/lumin v1.0.0
 	github.com/kballard/go-shellquote v0.0.0-20180428030007-95032a82bc51
-	github.com/klauspost/compress v1.16.7
-	github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime v1.0.6
+	github.com/klauspost/compress v1.18.3
+	github.com/kshedden/statmodel v0.0.0-20210519035403-ee97d3e48df1
+	github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime v1.1.1
 	github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20
 	github.com/nine-lives-later/go-windows-terminal-sequences v1.0.4
 	github.com/pkg/profile v1.7.0
-	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.8.4
-	golang.org/x/sys v0.16.0
-	golang.org/x/term v0.16.0
-	golang.org/x/text v0.14.0
+	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.11.1
+	golang.org/x/sys v0.40.0
+	golang.org/x/term v0.39.0
+	golang.org/x/text v0.33.0
 )
 
 require (
 	github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 // indirect
 	github.com/felixge/fgprof v0.9.3 // indirect
+	github.com/golang/snappy v1.0.0 // indirect
 	github.com/google/pprof v0.0.0-20211214055906-6f57359322fd // indirect
-	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 // indirect
+	github.com/kshedden/dstream v0.0.0-20190512025041-c4c410631beb // indirect
 	github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/tools v0.40.0 // indirect
+	gonum.org/v1/gonum v0.16.0 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 82013f687..0a7bba556 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ github.com/facette/natsort v0.0.0-20181210072756-2cd4dd1e2dcb h1:IT4JYU7k4ikYg1S
 github.com/facette/natsort v0.0.0-20181210072756-2cd4dd1e2dcb/go.mod h1:bH6Xx7IW64qjjJq8M2u4dxNaBiDfKK+z/3eGDpXEQhc=
 github.com/felixge/fgprof v0.9.3 h1:VvyZxILNuCiUCSXtPtYmmtGvb65nqXh2QFWc0Wpf2/g=
 github.com/felixge/fgprof v0.9.3/go.mod h1:RdbpDgzqYVh/T9fPELJyV7EYJuHB55UTEULNun8eiPw=
+github.com/golang/snappy v1.0.0 h1:Oy607GVXHs7RtbggtPBnr2RmDArIsAefDwvrdWvRhGs=
+github.com/golang/snappy v1.0.0/go.mod h1:/XxbfmMg8lxefKM7IXC3fBNl/7bRcc72aCRzEWrmP2Q=
 github.com/google/pprof v0.0.0-20211214055906-6f57359322fd h1:1FjCyPC+syAzJ5/2S8fqdZK1R22vvA0J7JZKcuOIQ7Y=
 github.com/google/pprof v0.0.0-20211214055906-6f57359322fd/go.mod h1:KgnwoLYCZ8IQu3XUZ8Nc/bM9CCZFOyjUNOSygVozoDg=
 github.com/ianlancetaylor/demangle v0.0.0-20210905161508-09a460cdf81d/go.mod h1:aYm2/VgdVmcIU8iMfdMvDMsRAQjcfZSKFby6HOFvi/w=
@@ -15,37 +17,42 @@ github.com/johnkerl/lumin v1.0.0 h1:CV34cHZOJ92Y02RbQ0rd4gA0C06Qck9q8blOyaPoWpU=
 github.com/johnkerl/lumin v1.0.0/go.mod h1:eLf5AdQOaLvzZ2zVy4REr/DSeEwG+CZreHwNLICqv9E=
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 github.com/kballard/go-shellquote v0.0.0-20180428030007-95032a82bc51/go.mod h1:CzGEWj7cYgsdH8dAjBGEr58BoE7ScuLd+fwFZ44+/x8=
-github.com/klauspost/compress v1.16.7 h1:2mk3MPGNzKyxErAw8YaohYh69+pa4sIQSC0fPGCFR9I=
-github.com/klauspost/compress v1.16.7/go.mod h1:ntbaceVETuRiXiv4DpjP66DpAtAGkEQskQzEyD//IeE=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.18.3 h1:9PJRvfbmTabkOX8moIpXPbMMbYN60bWImDDU7L+/6zw=
+github.com/klauspost/compress v1.18.3/go.mod h1:R0h/fSBs8DE4ENlcrlib3PsXS61voFxhIs2DeRhCvJ4=
+github.com/kshedden/dstream v0.0.0-20190512025041-c4c410631beb h1:Z5BVHFk/DLOIUAd2NycF0mLtKfhl7ynm4Uy5+AFhT48=
+github.com/kshedden/dstream v0.0.0-20190512025041-c4c410631beb/go.mod h1:+U+6yzfITr4/teU2YhxWhdyw6YzednT/16/UBMjlDrU=
+github.com/kshedden/statmodel v0.0.0-20210519035403-ee97d3e48df1 h1:UyIQ1VTQq/0CS/wLYjf3DV6uRKTd1xcsng3BccM4XCY=
+github.com/kshedden/statmodel v0.0.0-20210519035403-ee97d3e48df1/go.mod h1:uvVFnikBpVz7S1pdsyUI+BBRlz64vmU6Q+kviiB+fpU=
 github.com/lestrrat-go/envload v0.0.0-20180220234015-a3eb8ddeffcc h1:RKf14vYWi2ttpEmkA4aQ3j4u9dStX2t4M8UM6qqNsG8=
 github.com/lestrrat-go/envload v0.0.0-20180220234015-a3eb8ddeffcc/go.mod h1:kopuH9ugFRkIXf3YoqHKyrJ9YfUFsckUU9S7B+XP+is=
-github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime v1.0.6 h1:CFGsDEt1pOpFNU+TJB0nhz9jl+K0hZSLE205AhTIGQQ=
-github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime v1.0.6/go.mod h1:f7jQKgV5nnJpYgdEasS+/y7EsTb8ykN2z68n3TtcTaw=
+github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime v1.1.1 h1:zgf8QCsgj27GlKBy3SU9/8MMgegZ8UCzlCyHYrUF0QU=
+github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime v1.1.1/go.mod h1:YDrzHJAODYQ+xxvrn5SG01uFIQAeDTzpxNVppCz7Nmw=
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 github.com/nine-lives-later/go-windows-terminal-sequences v1.0.4 h1:NC4H8hewgaktBqMI5yzy6L/Vln5/H7BEziyxaE2fX3Y=
 github.com/nine-lives-later/go-windows-terminal-sequences v1.0.4/go.mod h1:eUQxpEiJy001RoaLXrNa5+QQLYiEgmEafwWuA3ppJSo=
-github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 h1:FEBLx1zS214owpjy7qsBeixbURkuhQAwrK5UwLGTwt4=
-github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1/go.mod h1:bwawxfHBFNV+L2hUp1rHADufV3IMtnDRdf1r5NINEl0=
 github.com/pkg/profile v1.7.0 h1:hnbDkaNWPCLMO9wGLdBFTIZvzDrDfBM2072E1S9gJkA=
 github.com/pkg/profile v1.7.0/go.mod h1:8Uer0jas47ZQMJ7VD+OHknK4YDY07LPUC6dEvqDjvNo=
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 h1:4DBwDE0NGyQoBHbLQYPwSUPoCMWR5BEzIk/f1lZbAQM=
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
 github.com/stretchr/objx v0.1.0/go.mod h1:HFkY916IF+rwdDfMAkV7OtwuqBVzrE8GR6GFx+wExME=
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-github.com/stretchr/testify v1.3.0/go.mod h1:M5WIy9Dh21IEIfnGCwXGc5bZfKNJtfHm1UVUgZn+9EI=
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 gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
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diff --git a/man/manpage.txt b/man/manpage.txt
index eee5e7837..90bff3293 100644
--- a/man/manpage.txt
+++ b/man/manpage.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
-
-
+4mMILLER24m(1)                                                            4mMILLER24m(1)
 
 1mNAME0m
        Miller -- like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such
@@ -29,7 +27,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        insertion-ordered hash map.  This encompasses a variety of data
        formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON.
        (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as a special case.) This
-       manpage documents mlr 6.11.0.
+       manpage documents mlr 6.16.0.
 
 1mEXAMPLES0m
        mlr --icsv --opprint cat example.csv
@@ -126,6 +124,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
          mlr help comments-in-data-flags
          mlr help compressed-data-flags
          mlr help csv/tsv-only-flags
+         mlr help dkvp-only-flags
          mlr help file-format-flags
          mlr help flatten-unflatten-flags
          mlr help format-conversion-keystroke-saver-flags
@@ -178,9 +177,9 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        json-parse json-stringify join label latin1-to-utf8 least-frequent
        merge-fields most-frequent nest nothing put regularize remove-empty-columns
        rename reorder repeat reshape sample sec2gmtdate sec2gmt seqgen shuffle
-       skip-trivial-records sort sort-within-records split ssub stats1 stats2 step
-       sub summary tac tail tee template top utf8-to-latin1 unflatten uniq unspace
-       unsparsify
+       skip-trivial-records sort sort-within-records sparsify split ssub stats1
+       stats2 step sub summary surv tac tail tee template top utf8-to-latin1
+       unflatten uniq unspace unsparsify
 
 1mFUNCTION LIST0m
        abs acos acosh antimode any append apply arrayify asin asinh asserting_absent
@@ -204,7 +203,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        percentiles pow qnorm reduce regextract regextract_or_else rightpad round
        roundm rstrip sec2dhms sec2gmt sec2gmtdate sec2hms sec2localdate sec2localtime
        select sgn sha1 sha256 sha512 sin sinh skewness sort sort_collection splita
-       splitax splitkv splitkvx splitnv splitnvx sqrt ssub stddev strfntime
+       splitax splitkv splitkvx splitnv splitnvx sqrt ssub stat stddev strfntime
        strfntime_local strftime strftime_local string strip strlen strmatch strmatchx
        strpntime strpntime_local strptime strptime_local sub substr substr0 substr1
        sum sum2 sum3 sum4 sysntime system systime systimeint tan tanh tolower toupper
@@ -235,12 +234,14 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
                                 within the input.
        --pass-comments-with {string}
                                 Immediately print commented lines within input, with
-                                specified prefix.
+                                specified prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix
+                                must be a single character.
        --skip-comments          Ignore commented lines (prefixed by `#`) within the
                                 input.
        --skip-comments-with {string}
                                 Ignore commented lines within input, with specified
-                                prefix.
+                                prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix must be a
+                                single character.
 
 1mCOMPRESSED-DATA FLAGS0m
        Miller offers a few different ways to handle reading data files
@@ -319,6 +320,10 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
                                 recreate missing headers.
        --lazy-quotes            Accepts quotes appearing in unquoted fields, and
                                 non-doubled quotes appearing in quoted fields.
+       --no-auto-unsparsify     For CSV/TSV output: if the record keys change from
+                                one row to another, emit a blank line and a new
+                                header line. This is non-compliant with RFC 4180 but
+                                it helpful for heterogeneous data.
        --no-implicit-csv-header or --no-implicit-tsv-header
                                 Opposite of `--implicit-csv-header`. This is the
                                 default anyway -- the main use is for the flags to
@@ -333,6 +338,16 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        -N                       Keystroke-saver for `--implicit-csv-header
                                 --headerless-csv-output`.
 
+1mDKVP-ONLY FLAGS0m
+       These are flags which are applicable to DKVP format.
+
+       --incr-key               Without this option, keyless DKVP fields are keyed by
+                                field number. For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50` is
+                                ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$3=30,$d=40,$5=50`. With
+                                this option, they're keyed by a running counter of
+                                keyless fields. For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50`
+                                is ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$1=30,$d=40,$2=50`.
+
 1mFILE-FORMAT FLAGS0m
        See the File formats doc page, and or `mlr help file-formats`, for more
        about file formats Miller supports.
@@ -345,9 +360,9 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`.
 
        --asv or --asvlite       Use ASV format for input and output data.
-       --csv or -c              Use CSV format for input and output data.
+       --csv or -c or --c2c     Use CSV format for input and output data.
        --csvlite                Use CSV-lite format for input and output data.
-       --dkvp                   Use DKVP format for input and output data.
+       --dkvp or --d2d          Use DKVP format for input and output data.
        --gen-field-name         Specify field name for --igen. Defaults to "i".
        --gen-start              Specify start value for --igen. Defaults to 1.
        --gen-step               Specify step value for --igen. Defaults to 1.
@@ -371,9 +386,9 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        --itsvlite               Use TSV-lite format for input data.
        --iusv or --iusvlite     Use USV format for input data.
        --ixtab                  Use XTAB format for input data.
-       --json or -j             Use JSON format for input and output data.
-       --jsonl                  Use JSON Lines format for input and output data.
-       --nidx                   Use NIDX format for input and output data.
+       --json or -j or --j2j    Use JSON format for input and output data.
+       --jsonl or --l2l         Use JSON Lines format for input and output data.
+       --nidx or --n2n          Use NIDX format for input and output data.
        --oasv or --oasvlite     Use ASV format for output data.
        --ocsv                   Use CSV format for output data.
        --ocsvlite               Use CSV-lite format for output data.
@@ -387,11 +402,11 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        --otsvlite               Use TSV-lite format for output data.
        --ousv or --ousvlite     Use USV format for output data.
        --oxtab                  Use XTAB format for output data.
-       --pprint                 Use PPRINT format for input and output data.
-       --tsv or -t              Use TSV format for input and output data.
+       --pprint or --p2p        Use PPRINT format for input and output data.
+       --tsv or -t or --t2t     Use TSV format for input and output data.
        --tsvlite                Use TSV-lite format for input and output data.
        --usv or --usvlite       Use USV format for input and output data.
-       --xtab                   Use XTAB format for input and output data.
+       --xtab or --x2x          Use XTAB format for input and output data.
        --xvright                Right-justify values for XTAB format.
        -i {format name}         Use format name for input data. For example: `-i csv`
                                 is the same as `--icsv`.
@@ -401,7 +416,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
 1mFLATTEN-UNFLATTEN FLAGS0m
        These flags control how Miller converts record values which are maps or arrays, when input is JSON and output is non-JSON (flattening) or input is non-JSON and output is JSON (unflattening).
 
-       See the Flatten/unflatten doc page for more information.
+       See the flatten/unflatten doc page https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/flatten-unflatten for more information.
 
        --flatsep or --jflatsep {string}
                                 Separator for flattening multi-level JSON keys, e.g.
@@ -409,32 +424,31 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
                                 formats. Defaults to `.`.
        --no-auto-flatten        When output is non-JSON, suppress the default
                                 auto-flatten behavior. Default: if `$y = [7,8,9]`
-                                then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9, and
+                                then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9`, and
                                 similarly for maps. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead
                                 we get `$y=[1, 2, 3]`.
-       --no-auto-unflatten      When input non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress the
-                                default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the
+       --no-auto-unflatten      When input is non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress
+                                the default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the
                                 input has `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9` then this unflattens to
-                                `$y=[7,8,9]`. flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9. With
-                                `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get
-                                `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`.
+                                `$y=[7,8,9]`. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we
+                                get `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`.
 
 1mFORMAT-CONVERSION KEYSTROKE-SAVER FLAGS0m
        As keystroke-savers for format-conversion you may use the following.
        The letters c, t, j, l, d, n, x, p, and m refer to formats CSV, TSV, DKVP, NIDX,
        JSON, JSON Lines, XTAB, PPRINT, and markdown, respectively.
 
-       | In\out   | CSV   | TSV   | JSON   | JSONL  | DKVP   | NIDX   | XTAB   | PPRINT | Markdown |
-       +----------+-------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------|
-       | CSV      |       | --c2t | --c2j  | --c2l  | --c2d  | --c2n  | --c2x  | --c2p  | --c2m    |
-       | TSV      | --t2c |       | --t2j  | --t2l  | --t2d  | --t2n  | --t2x  | --t2p  | --t2m    |
-       | JSON     | --j2c | --j2t |        | --j2l  | --j2d  | --j2n  | --j2x  | --j2p  | --j2m    |
-       | JSONL    | --l2c | --l2t |        |        | --l2d  | --l2n  | --l2x  | --l2p  | --l2m    |
-       | DKVP     | --d2c | --d2t | --d2j  | --d2l  |        | --d2n  | --d2x  | --d2p  | --d2m    |
-       | NIDX     | --n2c | --n2t | --n2j  | --n2l  | --n2d  |        | --n2x  | --n2p  | --n2m    |
-       | XTAB     | --x2c | --x2t | --x2j  | --x2l  | --x2d  | --x2n  |        | --x2p  | --x2m    |
-       | PPRINT   | --p2c | --p2t | --p2j  | --p2l  | --p2d  | --p2n  | --p2x  |        | --p2m    |
-       | Markdown | --m2c | --m2t | --m2j  | --m2l  | --m2d  | --m2n  | --m2x  | --m2p  |          |
+       | In\out   | CSV      | TSV      | JSON     | JSONL | DKVP  | NIDX  | XTAB  | PPRINT | Markdown |
+       +----------+----------+----------+----------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------+----------|
+       | CSV      | --c2c,-c | --c2t    | --c2j    | --c2l | --c2d | --c2n | --c2x | --c2p  | --c2m    |
+       | TSV      | --t2c    | --t2t,-t | --t2j    | --t2l | --t2d | --t2n | --t2x | --t2p  | --t2m    |
+       | JSON     | --j2c    | --j2t    | --j2j,-j | --j2l | --j2d | --j2n | --j2x | --j2p  | --j2m    |
+       | JSONL    | --l2c    | --l2t    | --l2j    | --l2l | --l2d | --l2n | --l2x | --l2p  | --l2m    |
+       | DKVP     | --d2c    | --d2t    | --d2j    | --d2l | --d2d | --d2n | --d2x | --d2p  | --d2m    |
+       | NIDX     | --n2c    | --n2t    | --n2j    | --n2l | --n2d | --n2n | --n2x | --n2p  | --n2m    |
+       | XTAB     | --x2c    | --x2t    | --x2j    | --x2l | --x2d | --x2n | --x2x | --x2p  | --x2m    |
+       | PPRINT   | --p2c    | --p2t    | --p2j    | --p2l | --p2d | --p2n | --p2x | -p2p   | --p2m    |
+       | Markdown | --m2c    | --m2t    | --m2j    | --m2l | --m2d | --m2n | --m2x | --m2p  |          |
 
        -p                       Keystroke-saver for `--nidx --fs space --repifs`.
        -T                       Keystroke-saver for `--nidx --fs tab`.
@@ -449,8 +463,8 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        --jvstack                Put one key-value pair per line for JSON output
                                 (multi-line output). This is the default for JSON
                                 output format.
-       --no-jlistwrap           Wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is the
-                                default for JSON Lines output format.
+       --no-jlistwrap           Do not wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is
+                                the default for JSON Lines output format.
        --no-jvstack             Put objects/arrays all on one line for JSON output.
                                 This is the default for JSON Lines output format.
 
@@ -625,8 +639,8 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        How you can control colorization:
 
        * Suppression/unsuppression:
-           * Environment variable `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` means don't color
-             even if stdout+TTY.
+           * Environment variable `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` or `export NO_COLOR=true`
+              means don't color even if stdout+TTY.
            * Environment variable `export MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR=true` means do color
              even if not stdout+TTY.
              For example, you might want to use this when piping mlr output to `less -r`.
@@ -745,13 +759,13 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
          - To avoid backslashing, you can use any of the following names:
 
                  ascii_esc  = "\x1b"
-                 ascii_etx  = "\x04"
+                 ascii_etx  = "\x03"
                  ascii_fs   = "\x1c"
                  ascii_gs   = "\x1d"
-                 ascii_null = "\x01"
+                 ascii_null = "\x00"
                  ascii_rs   = "\x1e"
-                 ascii_soh  = "\x02"
-                 ascii_stx  = "\x03"
+                 ascii_soh  = "\x01"
+                 ascii_stx  = "\x02"
                  ascii_us   = "\x1f"
                  asv_fs     = "\x1f"
                  asv_rs     = "\x1e"
@@ -785,11 +799,12 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
                csv      ","    N/A    "\n"
                csvlite  ","    N/A    "\n"
                dkvp     ","    "="    "\n"
+               gen      ","    N/A    "\n"
                json     N/A    N/A    N/A
                markdown " "    N/A    "\n"
                nidx     " "    N/A    "\n"
                pprint   " "    N/A    "\n"
-               tsv      "  "    N/A    "\n"
+               tsv      "     "    N/A    "\n"
                xtab     "\n"   " "    "\n\n"
 
        --fs {string}            Specify FS for input and output.
@@ -1009,7 +1024,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
         -r Treat field names as regular expressions. "ab", "a.*b" will
           match any field name containing the substring "ab" or matching
           "a.*b", respectively; anchors of the form "^ab$", "^a.*b$" may
-          be used. The -o flag is ignored when -r is present.
+          be used.
        -h|--help Show this message.
        Examples:
          mlr cut -f hostname,status
@@ -1053,6 +1068,10 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
 
    1mfilter0m
        Usage: mlr filter [options] {DSL expression}
+       Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically filter which
+       stream records will be output.
+       See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs
+
        Options:
        -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
           is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded.
@@ -1247,6 +1266,8 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        See also the `sub` and `ssub` verbs.
        Options:
        -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+       -r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+       -a          Convert all fields.
        -h|--help   Show this message.
 
    1mhaving-fields0m
@@ -1356,7 +1377,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        Likewise, if you have 'mlr --csv --implicit-csv-header ...' then the join-in file will be
        expected to be headerless as well unless you put '--no-implicit-csv-header' after 'join'.
        Please use "mlr --usage-separator-options" for information on specifying separators.
-       Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs.html#join for more information
+       Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs#join for more information
        including examples.
 
    1mlabel0m
@@ -1400,6 +1421,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
          antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie
          sum      Compute sums of specified fields
          mean     Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields
+         mad      Compute mean absolute deviation
          var      Compute sample variance of specified fields
          stddev   Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields
          meaneb   Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation)
@@ -1506,6 +1528,9 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
 
    1mput0m
        Usage: mlr put [options] {DSL expression}
+       Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically alter stream records.
+       See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs
+
        Options:
        -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
           is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded.
@@ -1612,9 +1637,9 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
                   first-match replacement.
        -h|--help Show this message.
        Examples:
-       mlr rename old_name,new_name'
-       mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2'
-       mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date,'  Rename all such fields to be "Date"
+       mlr rename old_name,new_name
+       mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2
+       mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date'  Rename all such fields to be "Date"
        mlr rename -r '"Date_[0-9]+",Date' Same
        mlr rename -r 'Date_([0-9]+).*,\1' Rename all such fields to be of the form 20151015
        mlr rename -r '"name"i,Name'       Rename "name", "Name", "NAME", etc. to "Name"
@@ -1804,6 +1829,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        -nf {comma-separated field names}  Same as -n
        -nr {comma-separated field names}  Numerical descending; nulls sort first
        -t  {comma-separated field names}  Natural ascending
+       -b                                 Move sort fields to start of record, as in reorder -b
        -tr|-rt {comma-separated field names}  Natural descending
        -h|--help Show this message.
 
@@ -1819,6 +1845,17 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        -r        Recursively sort subobjects/submaps, e.g. for JSON input.
        -h|--help Show this message.
 
+   1msparsify0m
+       Usage: mlr sparsify [options]
+       Unsets fields for which the key is the empty string (or, optionally, another
+       specified value). Only makes sense with output format not being CSV or TSV.
+       Options:
+       -s {filler string} What values to remove. Defaults to the empty string.
+       -f {a,b,c} Specify field names to be operated on; any other fields won't be
+                  modified. The default is to modify all fields.
+       -h|--help  Show this message.
+       Example: if input is a=1,b=,c=3 then output is a=1,c=3.
+
    1msplit0m
        Usage: mlr split [options] {filename}
        Options:
@@ -1867,6 +1904,8 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        the old string, like the `ssub` DSL function. See also the `gsub` and `sub` verbs.
        Options:
        -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+       -r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+       -a          Convert all fields.
        -h|--help   Show this message.
 
    1mstats10m
@@ -1884,6 +1923,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
          antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie
          sum      Compute sums of specified fields
          mean     Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields
+         mad      Compute mean absolute deviation
          var      Compute sample variance of specified fields
          stddev   Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields
          meaneb   Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation)
@@ -1918,7 +1958,7 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        Example: mlr stats1 -a min,p10,p50,p90,max -f value -g size,shape
        Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size
        Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size -g shape
-       Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' -gr '^k.*$'
+       Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' --gr '^k.*$'
                This computes count and mode statistics on all field names beginning
                 with a through h, grouped by all field names starting with k.
 
@@ -2013,6 +2053,8 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        See also the `gsub` and `ssub` verbs.
        Options:
        -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+       -r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+       -a          Convert all fields.
        -h|--help   Show this message.
 
    1msummary0m
@@ -2055,8 +2097,18 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        -a {mean,sum,etc.} Use only the specified summarizers.
        -x {mean,sum,etc.} Use all summarizers, except the specified ones.
        --all              Use all available summarizers.
+       --transpose        Show output with field names as column names..
        -h|--help Show this message.
 
+   1msurv0m
+       Usage: mlr surv -d {duration-field} -s {status-field}
+
+       Estimate Kaplan-Meier survival curve (right-censored).
+       Options:
+         -d {field}   Name of duration field (time-to-event or censoring).
+         -s {field}   Name of status field (0=censored, 1=event).
+         -h, --help   Show this message.
+
    1mtac0m
        Usage: mlr tac [options]
        Prints records in reverse order from the order in which they were encountered.
@@ -2386,9 +2438,14 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        $* = fmtifnum($*, "%.6f") formats numeric fields in the current record, leaving non-numeric ones alone
 
    1mfmtnum0m
-        (class=conversion #args=2) Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. This function recurses on array and map values.
-       Example:
-       $x = fmtnum($x, "%.6f")
+        (class=conversion #args=2) Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. Miller-specific extension: "%_d" and "%_f" for comma-separated thousands. This function recurses on array and map values.
+       Examples:
+       $y = fmtnum($x, "%.6f")
+       $o = fmtnum($n, "%d")
+       $o = fmtnum($n, "%12d")
+       $y = fmtnum($x, "%.6_f")
+       $o = fmtnum($n, "%_d")
+       $o = fmtnum($n, "%12_d")
 
    1mfold0m
         (class=higher-order-functions #args=3) Given a map or array as first argument and a function as second argument, accumulates entries into a final output -- for example, sum or product. For arrays, the function should take two arguments, for accumulated value and array element. For maps, it should take four arguments, for accumulated key and value, and map-element key and value; it should return the updated accumulator as a new key-value pair (i.e. a single-entry map). The start value for the accumulator is taken from the third argument.
@@ -2941,6 +2998,18 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        Example:
        ssub("abc.def", ".", "X") gives "abcXdef"
 
+   1mstat0m
+        (class=system #args=1) Returns a map containing information about the provided path: "name" with string value, "size" as decimal int value, "mode" as octal int value, "modtime" as int-valued epoch seconds, and "isdir" as boolean value.
+       Examples:
+       stat("./mlr") gives {
+         "name": "mlr",
+         "size": 38391584,
+         "mode": 0755,
+         "modtime": 1715207874,
+         "isdir": false
+       }
+       stat("./mlr")["size"] gives 38391584
+
    1mstddev0m
         (class=stats #args=1) Returns the sample standard deviation of values in an array or map. Returns empty string AKA void for array/map of length less than two; returns error for non-array/non-map types.
        Example:
@@ -3669,6 +3738,4 @@ MILLER(1)                                                            MILLER(1)
        MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files, the Miller docsite
        https://miller.readthedocs.io
 
-
-
-                                  2024-01-23                         MILLER(1)
+                                  2026-01-02                         4mMILLER24m(1)
diff --git a/man/mlr.1 b/man/mlr.1
index 18a426704..f36d5e2f0 100644
--- a/man/mlr.1
+++ b/man/mlr.1
@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@
 .\"     Title: mlr
 .\"    Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section]
 .\" Generator: ./mkman.rb
-.\"      Date: 2024-01-23
+.\"      Date: 2026-01-02
 .\"    Manual: \ \&
 .\"    Source: \ \&
 .\"  Language: English
 .\"
-.TH "MILLER" "1" "2024-01-23" "\ \&" "\ \&"
+.TH "MILLER" "1" "2026-01-02" "\ \&" "\ \&"
 .\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
 .\" * Portability definitions
 .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ on integer-indexed fields: if the natural data structure for the latter is the
 array, then Miller's natural data structure is the insertion-ordered hash map.
 This encompasses a variety of data formats, including but not limited to the
 familiar CSV, TSV, and JSON.  (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data as
-a special case.) This manpage documents mlr 6.11.0.
+a special case.) This manpage documents mlr 6.16.0.
 .SH "EXAMPLES"
 .sp
 
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ Flags:
   mlr help comments-in-data-flags
   mlr help compressed-data-flags
   mlr help csv/tsv-only-flags
+  mlr help dkvp-only-flags
   mlr help file-format-flags
   mlr help flatten-unflatten-flags
   mlr help format-conversion-keystroke-saver-flags
@@ -219,9 +220,9 @@ fraction gap grep group-by group-like gsub having-fields head histogram
 json-parse json-stringify join label latin1-to-utf8 least-frequent
 merge-fields most-frequent nest nothing put regularize remove-empty-columns
 rename reorder repeat reshape sample sec2gmtdate sec2gmt seqgen shuffle
-skip-trivial-records sort sort-within-records split ssub stats1 stats2 step
-sub summary tac tail tee template top utf8-to-latin1 unflatten uniq unspace
-unsparsify
+skip-trivial-records sort sort-within-records sparsify split ssub stats1
+stats2 step sub summary surv tac tail tee template top utf8-to-latin1
+unflatten uniq unspace unsparsify
 .fi
 .if n \{\
 .RE
@@ -251,7 +252,7 @@ nsec2gmt nsec2gmtdate nsec2localdate nsec2localtime null_count os percentile
 percentiles pow qnorm reduce regextract regextract_or_else rightpad round
 roundm rstrip sec2dhms sec2gmt sec2gmtdate sec2hms sec2localdate sec2localtime
 select sgn sha1 sha256 sha512 sin sinh skewness sort sort_collection splita
-splitax splitkv splitkvx splitnv splitnvx sqrt ssub stddev strfntime
+splitax splitkv splitkvx splitnv splitnvx sqrt ssub stat stddev strfntime
 strfntime_local strftime strftime_local string strip strlen strmatch strmatchx
 strpntime strpntime_local strptime strptime_local sub substr substr0 substr1
 sum sum2 sum3 sum4 sysntime system systime systimeint tan tanh tolower toupper
@@ -290,12 +291,14 @@ Notes:
                          within the input.
 --pass-comments-with {string}
                          Immediately print commented lines within input, with
-                         specified prefix.
+                         specified prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix
+                         must be a single character.
 --skip-comments          Ignore commented lines (prefixed by `#`) within the
                          input.
 --skip-comments-with {string}
                          Ignore commented lines within input, with specified
-                         prefix.
+                         prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix must be a
+                         single character.
 .fi
 .if n \{\
 .RE
@@ -390,6 +393,10 @@ These are flags which are applicable to CSV format.
                          recreate missing headers.
 --lazy-quotes            Accepts quotes appearing in unquoted fields, and
                          non-doubled quotes appearing in quoted fields.
+--no-auto-unsparsify     For CSV/TSV output: if the record keys change from
+                         one row to another, emit a blank line and a new
+                         header line. This is non-compliant with RFC 4180 but
+                         it helpful for heterogeneous data.
 --no-implicit-csv-header or --no-implicit-tsv-header
                          Opposite of `--implicit-csv-header`. This is the
                          default anyway -- the main use is for the flags to
@@ -406,6 +413,24 @@ These are flags which are applicable to CSV format.
 .fi
 .if n \{\
 .RE
+.SH "DKVP-ONLY FLAGS"
+.sp
+
+.if n \{\
+.RS 0
+.\}
+.nf
+These are flags which are applicable to DKVP format.
+
+--incr-key               Without this option, keyless DKVP fields are keyed by
+                         field number. For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50` is
+                         ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$3=30,$d=40,$5=50`. With
+                         this option, they're keyed by a running counter of
+                         keyless fields. For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50`
+                         is ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$1=30,$d=40,$2=50`.
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
 .SH "FILE-FORMAT FLAGS"
 .sp
 
@@ -424,9 +449,9 @@ The latter sets up input and output flags for `format1`, not all of which
 are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`.
 
 --asv or --asvlite       Use ASV format for input and output data.
---csv or -c              Use CSV format for input and output data.
+--csv or -c or --c2c     Use CSV format for input and output data.
 --csvlite                Use CSV-lite format for input and output data.
---dkvp                   Use DKVP format for input and output data.
+--dkvp or --d2d          Use DKVP format for input and output data.
 --gen-field-name         Specify field name for --igen. Defaults to "i".
 --gen-start              Specify start value for --igen. Defaults to 1.
 --gen-step               Specify step value for --igen. Defaults to 1.
@@ -450,9 +475,9 @@ are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`.
 --itsvlite               Use TSV-lite format for input data.
 --iusv or --iusvlite     Use USV format for input data.
 --ixtab                  Use XTAB format for input data.
---json or -j             Use JSON format for input and output data.
---jsonl                  Use JSON Lines format for input and output data.
---nidx                   Use NIDX format for input and output data.
+--json or -j or --j2j    Use JSON format for input and output data.
+--jsonl or --l2l         Use JSON Lines format for input and output data.
+--nidx or --n2n          Use NIDX format for input and output data.
 --oasv or --oasvlite     Use ASV format for output data.
 --ocsv                   Use CSV format for output data.
 --ocsvlite               Use CSV-lite format for output data.
@@ -466,11 +491,11 @@ are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`.
 --otsvlite               Use TSV-lite format for output data.
 --ousv or --ousvlite     Use USV format for output data.
 --oxtab                  Use XTAB format for output data.
---pprint                 Use PPRINT format for input and output data.
---tsv or -t              Use TSV format for input and output data.
+--pprint or --p2p        Use PPRINT format for input and output data.
+--tsv or -t or --t2t     Use TSV format for input and output data.
 --tsvlite                Use TSV-lite format for input and output data.
 --usv or --usvlite       Use USV format for input and output data.
---xtab                   Use XTAB format for input and output data.
+--xtab or --x2x          Use XTAB format for input and output data.
 --xvright                Right-justify values for XTAB format.
 -i {format name}         Use format name for input data. For example: `-i csv`
                          is the same as `--icsv`.
@@ -488,7 +513,7 @@ are overridden in all cases by setting output format to `format2`.
 .nf
 These flags control how Miller converts record values which are maps or arrays, when input is JSON and output is non-JSON (flattening) or input is non-JSON and output is JSON (unflattening).
 
-See the Flatten/unflatten doc page for more information.
+See the flatten/unflatten doc page https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/flatten-unflatten for more information.
 
 --flatsep or --jflatsep {string}
                          Separator for flattening multi-level JSON keys, e.g.
@@ -496,15 +521,14 @@ See the Flatten/unflatten doc page for more information.
                          formats. Defaults to `.`.
 --no-auto-flatten        When output is non-JSON, suppress the default
                          auto-flatten behavior. Default: if `$y = [7,8,9]`
-                         then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9, and
+                         then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9`, and
                          similarly for maps. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead
                          we get `$y=[1, 2, 3]`.
---no-auto-unflatten      When input non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress the
-                         default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the
+--no-auto-unflatten      When input is non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress
+                         the default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the
                          input has `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9` then this unflattens to
-                         `$y=[7,8,9]`. flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9. With
-                         `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get
-                         `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`.
+                         `$y=[7,8,9]`. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we
+                         get `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`.
 .fi
 .if n \{\
 .RE
@@ -519,17 +543,17 @@ As keystroke-savers for format-conversion you may use the following.
 The letters c, t, j, l, d, n, x, p, and m refer to formats CSV, TSV, DKVP, NIDX,
 JSON, JSON Lines, XTAB, PPRINT, and markdown, respectively.
 
-| In\eout   | CSV   | TSV   | JSON   | JSONL  | DKVP   | NIDX   | XTAB   | PPRINT | Markdown |
-+----------+-------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------|
-| CSV      |       | --c2t | --c2j  | --c2l  | --c2d  | --c2n  | --c2x  | --c2p  | --c2m    |
-| TSV      | --t2c |       | --t2j  | --t2l  | --t2d  | --t2n  | --t2x  | --t2p  | --t2m    |
-| JSON     | --j2c | --j2t |        | --j2l  | --j2d  | --j2n  | --j2x  | --j2p  | --j2m    |
-| JSONL    | --l2c | --l2t |        |        | --l2d  | --l2n  | --l2x  | --l2p  | --l2m    |
-| DKVP     | --d2c | --d2t | --d2j  | --d2l  |        | --d2n  | --d2x  | --d2p  | --d2m    |
-| NIDX     | --n2c | --n2t | --n2j  | --n2l  | --n2d  |        | --n2x  | --n2p  | --n2m    |
-| XTAB     | --x2c | --x2t | --x2j  | --x2l  | --x2d  | --x2n  |        | --x2p  | --x2m    |
-| PPRINT   | --p2c | --p2t | --p2j  | --p2l  | --p2d  | --p2n  | --p2x  |        | --p2m    |
-| Markdown | --m2c | --m2t | --m2j  | --m2l  | --m2d  | --m2n  | --m2x  | --m2p  |          |
+| In\eout   | CSV      | TSV      | JSON     | JSONL | DKVP  | NIDX  | XTAB  | PPRINT | Markdown |
++----------+----------+----------+----------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------+----------|
+| CSV      | --c2c,-c | --c2t    | --c2j    | --c2l | --c2d | --c2n | --c2x | --c2p  | --c2m    |
+| TSV      | --t2c    | --t2t,-t | --t2j    | --t2l | --t2d | --t2n | --t2x | --t2p  | --t2m    |
+| JSON     | --j2c    | --j2t    | --j2j,-j | --j2l | --j2d | --j2n | --j2x | --j2p  | --j2m    |
+| JSONL    | --l2c    | --l2t    | --l2j    | --l2l | --l2d | --l2n | --l2x | --l2p  | --l2m    |
+| DKVP     | --d2c    | --d2t    | --d2j    | --d2l | --d2d | --d2n | --d2x | --d2p  | --d2m    |
+| NIDX     | --n2c    | --n2t    | --n2j    | --n2l | --n2d | --n2n | --n2x | --n2p  | --n2m    |
+| XTAB     | --x2c    | --x2t    | --x2j    | --x2l | --x2d | --x2n | --x2x | --x2p  | --x2m    |
+| PPRINT   | --p2c    | --p2t    | --p2j    | --p2l | --p2d | --p2n | --p2x | -p2p   | --p2m    |
+| Markdown | --m2c    | --m2t    | --m2j    | --m2l | --m2d | --m2n | --m2x | --m2p  |          |
 
 -p                       Keystroke-saver for `--nidx --fs space --repifs`.
 -T                       Keystroke-saver for `--nidx --fs tab`.
@@ -552,8 +576,8 @@ These are flags which are applicable to JSON output format.
 --jvstack                Put one key-value pair per line for JSON output
                          (multi-line output). This is the default for JSON
                          output format.
---no-jlistwrap           Wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is the
-                         default for JSON Lines output format.
+--no-jlistwrap           Do not wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is
+                         the default for JSON Lines output format.
 --no-jvstack             Put objects/arrays all on one line for JSON output.
                          This is the default for JSON Lines output format.
 .fi
@@ -752,8 +776,8 @@ Mechanisms for coloring:
 How you can control colorization:
 
 * Suppression/unsuppression:
-    * Environment variable `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` means don't color
-      even if stdout+TTY.
+    * Environment variable `export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` or `export NO_COLOR=true`
+	  means don't color even if stdout+TTY.
     * Environment variable `export MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR=true` means do color
       even if not stdout+TTY.
       For example, you might want to use this when piping mlr output to `less -r`.
@@ -896,13 +920,13 @@ Notes about all other separators:
   - To avoid backslashing, you can use any of the following names:
 
           ascii_esc  = "\ex1b"
-          ascii_etx  = "\ex04"
+          ascii_etx  = "\ex03"
           ascii_fs   = "\ex1c"
           ascii_gs   = "\ex1d"
-          ascii_null = "\ex01"
+          ascii_null = "\ex00"
           ascii_rs   = "\ex1e"
-          ascii_soh  = "\ex02"
-          ascii_stx  = "\ex03"
+          ascii_soh  = "\ex01"
+          ascii_stx  = "\ex02"
           ascii_us   = "\ex1f"
           asv_fs     = "\ex1f"
           asv_rs     = "\ex1e"
@@ -936,6 +960,7 @@ Notes about all other separators:
         csv      ","    N/A    "\en"
         csvlite  ","    N/A    "\en"
         dkvp     ","    "="    "\en"
+        gen      ","    N/A    "\en"
         json     N/A    N/A    N/A
         markdown " "    N/A    "\en"
         nidx     " "    N/A    "\en"
@@ -1246,7 +1271,7 @@ Options:
  -r Treat field names as regular expressions. "ab", "a.*b" will
    match any field name containing the substring "ab" or matching
    "a.*b", respectively; anchors of the form "^ab$", "^a.*b$" may
-   be used. The -o flag is ignored when -r is present.
+   be used.
 -h|--help Show this message.
 Examples:
   mlr cut -f hostname,status
@@ -1314,6 +1339,10 @@ Options:
 .\}
 .nf
 Usage: mlr filter [options] {DSL expression}
+Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically filter which
+stream records will be output.
+See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs
+
 Options:
 -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
    is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded.
@@ -1326,7 +1355,7 @@ Options:
 Since the expression pieces are simply concatenated, please be sure to use intervening
 semicolons to separate expressions.)
 
--s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have 
+-s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have
     Thus mlr put -s foo=97 '$column += @foo' is like
     mlr put 'begin {@foo = 97} $column += @foo'.
     The value part is subject to type-inferencing.
@@ -1556,6 +1585,8 @@ for the old string and handling multiple matches, like the `gsub` DSL function.
 See also the `sub` and `ssub` verbs.
 Options:
 -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+-a          Convert all fields.
 -h|--help   Show this message.
 .fi
 .if n \{\
@@ -1701,7 +1732,7 @@ be specified CSV as well unless you override with 'mlr --csv ... join --ijson -l
 Likewise, if you have 'mlr --csv --implicit-csv-header ...' then the join-in file will be
 expected to be headerless as well unless you put '--no-implicit-csv-header' after 'join'.
 Please use "mlr --usage-separator-options" for information on specifying separators.
-Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs.html#join for more information
+Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs#join for more information
 including examples.
 .fi
 .if n \{\
@@ -1769,6 +1800,7 @@ Options:
   antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie
   sum      Compute sums of specified fields
   mean     Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields
+  mad      Compute mean absolute deviation
   var      Compute sample variance of specified fields
   stddev   Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields
   meaneb   Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation)
@@ -1899,6 +1931,9 @@ Options:
 .\}
 .nf
 Usage: mlr put [options] {DSL expression}
+Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically alter stream records.
+See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs
+
 Options:
 -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
    is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded.
@@ -1911,7 +1946,7 @@ Options:
 Since the expression pieces are simply concatenated, please be sure to use intervening
 semicolons to separate expressions.)
 
--s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have 
+-s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have
     Thus mlr put -s foo=97 '$column += @foo' is like
     mlr put 'begin {@foo = 97} $column += @foo'.
     The value part is subject to type-inferencing.
@@ -2023,9 +2058,9 @@ Options:
            first-match replacement.
 -h|--help Show this message.
 Examples:
-mlr rename old_name,new_name'
-mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2'
-mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date,'  Rename all such fields to be "Date"
+mlr rename old_name,new_name
+mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2
+mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date'  Rename all such fields to be "Date"
 mlr rename -r '"Date_[0-9]+",Date' Same
 mlr rename -r 'Date_([0-9]+).*,\e1' Rename all such fields to be of the form 20151015
 mlr rename -r '"name"i,Name'       Rename "name", "Name", "NAME", etc. to "Name"
@@ -2275,6 +2310,7 @@ Options:
 -nf {comma-separated field names}  Same as -n
 -nr {comma-separated field names}  Numerical descending; nulls sort first
 -t  {comma-separated field names}  Natural ascending
+-b                                 Move sort fields to start of record, as in reorder -b
 -tr|-rt {comma-separated field names}  Natural descending
 -h|--help Show this message.
 
@@ -2298,6 +2334,23 @@ Options:
 .fi
 .if n \{\
 .RE
+.SS "sparsify"
+.if n \{\
+.RS 0
+.\}
+.nf
+Usage: mlr sparsify [options]
+Unsets fields for which the key is the empty string (or, optionally, another
+specified value). Only makes sense with output format not being CSV or TSV.
+Options:
+-s {filler string} What values to remove. Defaults to the empty string.
+-f {a,b,c} Specify field names to be operated on; any other fields won't be
+           modified. The default is to modify all fields.
+-h|--help  Show this message.
+Example: if input is a=1,b=,c=3 then output is a=1,c=3.
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
 .SS "split"
 .if n \{\
 .RS 0
@@ -2356,6 +2409,8 @@ Replaces old string with new string in specified field(s), without regex support
 the old string, like the `ssub` DSL function. See also the `gsub` and `sub` verbs.
 Options:
 -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+-a          Convert all fields.
 -h|--help   Show this message.
 .fi
 .if n \{\
@@ -2379,6 +2434,7 @@ Options:
   antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie
   sum      Compute sums of specified fields
   mean     Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields
+  mad      Compute mean absolute deviation
   var      Compute sample variance of specified fields
   stddev   Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields
   meaneb   Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation)
@@ -2413,7 +2469,7 @@ Options:
 Example: mlr stats1 -a min,p10,p50,p90,max -f value -g size,shape
 Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size
 Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size -g shape
-Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' -gr '^k.*$'
+Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' --gr '^k.*$'
         This computes count and mode statistics on all field names beginning
          with a through h, grouped by all field names starting with k.
 
@@ -2526,6 +2582,8 @@ for the old string and not handling multiple matches, like the `sub` DSL functio
 See also the `gsub` and `ssub` verbs.
 Options:
 -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+-a          Convert all fields.
 -h|--help   Show this message.
 .fi
 .if n \{\
@@ -2574,10 +2632,26 @@ Options:
 -a {mean,sum,etc.} Use only the specified summarizers.
 -x {mean,sum,etc.} Use all summarizers, except the specified ones.
 --all              Use all available summarizers.
+--transpose        Show output with field names as column names..
 -h|--help Show this message.
 .fi
 .if n \{\
 .RE
+.SS "surv"
+.if n \{\
+.RS 0
+.\}
+.nf
+Usage: mlr surv -d {duration-field} -s {status-field}
+
+Estimate Kaplan-Meier survival curve (right-censored).
+Options:
+  -d {field}   Name of duration field (time-to-event or censoring).
+  -s {field}   Name of status field (0=censored, 1=event).
+  -h, --help   Show this message.
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
 .SS "tac"
 .if n \{\
 .RS 0
@@ -3321,9 +3395,14 @@ $* = fmtifnum($*, "%.6f") formats numeric fields in the current record, leaving
 .RS 0
 .\}
 .nf
- (class=conversion #args=2) Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. This function recurses on array and map values.
-Example:
-$x = fmtnum($x, "%.6f")
+ (class=conversion #args=2) Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g. '$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. Miller-specific extension: "%_d" and "%_f" for comma-separated thousands. This function recurses on array and map values.
+Examples:
+$y = fmtnum($x, "%.6f")
+$o = fmtnum($n, "%d")
+$o = fmtnum($n, "%12d")
+$y = fmtnum($x, "%.6_f")
+$o = fmtnum($n, "%_d")
+$o = fmtnum($n, "%12_d")
 .fi
 .if n \{\
 .RE
@@ -4568,6 +4647,24 @@ ssub("abc.def", ".", "X") gives "abcXdef"
 .fi
 .if n \{\
 .RE
+.SS "stat"
+.if n \{\
+.RS 0
+.\}
+.nf
+ (class=system #args=1) Returns a map containing information about the provided path: "name" with string value, "size" as decimal int value, "mode" as octal int value, "modtime" as int-valued epoch seconds, and "isdir" as boolean value.
+Examples:
+stat("./mlr") gives {
+  "name": "mlr",
+  "size": 38391584,
+  "mode": 0755,
+  "modtime": 1715207874,
+  "isdir": false
+}
+stat("./mlr")["size"] gives 38391584
+.fi
+.if n \{\
+.RE
 .SS "stddev"
 .if n \{\
 .RS 0
diff --git a/miller.spec b/miller.spec
index 2ac4f6265..166cb35e0 100644
--- a/miller.spec
+++ b/miller.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary: Name-indexed data processing tool
 Name: miller
-Version: 6.11.0
+Version: 6.16.0
 Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: BSD
 Source: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/releases/download/%{version}/miller-%{version}.tar.gz
@@ -36,6 +36,21 @@ make install
 %{_mandir}/man1/mlr.1*
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jan 2 2026 John Kerl  - 6.16.0-1
+- 6.16.0 release
+
+* Thu Aug 14 2025 John Kerl  - 6.15.0-1
+- 6.15.0 release
+
+* Fri Jul 4 2025 John Kerl  - 6.14.0-1
+- 6.14.0 release
+
+* Sat Oct 5 2024 John Kerl  - 6.13.0-1
+- 6.13.0 release
+
+* Sat Mar 16 2024 John Kerl  - 6.12.0-1
+- 6.12.0 release
+
 * Tue Jan 23 2024 John Kerl  - 6.11.0-1
 - 6.11.0 release
 
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/arithmetic.go b/pkg/bifs/arithmetic.go
index f5a2b853e..bffcc5309 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/arithmetic.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/arithmetic.go
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -834,7 +834,7 @@ func min_i_ii(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 // a=F | min=a min=a
 // a=T | min=b min=b
 func min_b_bb(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
-	if input1.AcquireBoolValue() == false {
+	if !input1.AcquireBoolValue() {
 		return input1
 	} else {
 		return input2
@@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ func BIF_minlen_variadic(mlrvals []*mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 	}
 	// Do the bulk arithmetic on native ints not Mlrvals, to avoid unnecessary allocation.
 	retval := lib.UTF8Strlen(mlrvals[0].OriginalString())
-	for i, _ := range mlrvals {
+	for i := range mlrvals {
 		clen := lib.UTF8Strlen(mlrvals[i].OriginalString())
 		if clen < retval {
 			retval = clen
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ func max_i_ii(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 // a=F | max=a max=b
 // a=T | max=a max=b
 func max_b_bb(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
-	if input2.AcquireBoolValue() == false {
+	if !input2.AcquireBoolValue() {
 		return input1
 	} else {
 		return input2
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ func BIF_maxlen_variadic(mlrvals []*mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 	}
 	// Do the bulk arithmetic on native ints not Mlrvals, to avoid unnecessary allocation.
 	retval := lib.UTF8Strlen(mlrvals[0].OriginalString())
-	for i, _ := range mlrvals {
+	for i := range mlrvals {
 		clen := lib.UTF8Strlen(mlrvals[i].OriginalString())
 		if clen > retval {
 			retval = clen
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/arithmetic_test.go b/pkg/bifs/arithmetic_test.go
index 76efd45ea..393a3a968 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/arithmetic_test.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/arithmetic_test.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 func TestBIF_plus_unary(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/base.go b/pkg/bifs/base.go
index 28aa0d6bf..c259cc7fe 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/base.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/base.go
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ package bifs
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // Function-pointer type for zary functions.
@@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ func _zero1(input1 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 }
 
 // Return one (unary)
+//
+//lint:ignore U1000 util function might be used later
 func __one1(input1 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 	return mlrval.FromInt(1)
 }
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/bits.go b/pkg/bifs/bits.go
index 5ed8cc20e..c9001c431 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/bits.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/bits.go
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package bifs
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/bits_test.go b/pkg/bifs/bits_test.go
index 96718e00d..9239d58a4 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/bits_test.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/bits_test.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 func TestBIF_bitcount(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/booleans.go b/pkg/bifs/booleans.go
index c0b3bc3db..181e5cbc6 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/booleans.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/booleans.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 package bifs
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 func BIF_logical_NOT(input1 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/cmp.go b/pkg/bifs/cmp.go
index 832feab57..3be517990 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/cmp.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/cmp.go
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 package bifs
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 //   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ func eq_b_aa(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 	for i := range a {
 		eq := BIF_equals(a[i], b[i])
 		lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(eq.Type() != mlrval.MT_BOOL)
-		if eq.AcquireBoolValue() == false {
+		if !eq.AcquireBoolValue() {
 			return mlrval.FALSE
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/collections.go b/pkg/bifs/collections.go
index a734ee451..a47730702 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/collections.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/collections.go
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ func BIF_joink(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 // joinv([3,4,5], ",") -> "3,4,5"
 // joinv({"a":3,"b":4,"c":5}, ",") -> "3,4,5"
 func BIF_joinv(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
-	if !input2.IsString() {
+	if !input2.IsStringOrVoid() {
 		return mlrval.FromNotStringError("joinv", input2)
 	}
 	fieldSeparator := input2.AcquireStringValue()
@@ -568,15 +568,16 @@ func BIF_splitnvx(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 // splita("3,4,5", ",") -> [3,4,5]
 func BIF_splita(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
-	if !input1.IsStringOrVoid() {
-		return mlrval.FromNotStringError("splita", input1)
+	if !input1.IsLegit() {
+		return input1
 	}
+	input1String := input1.String()
 	if !input2.IsString() {
 		return mlrval.FromNotStringError("splita", input2)
 	}
 	fieldSeparator := input2.AcquireStringValue()
 
-	fields := lib.SplitString(input1.AcquireStringValue(), fieldSeparator)
+	fields := lib.SplitString(input1String, fieldSeparator)
 
 	arrayval := make([]*mlrval.Mlrval, len(fields))
 
@@ -592,16 +593,16 @@ func BIF_splita(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 // BIF_splitax splits a string to an array, without type-inference:
 // e.g. splitax("3,4,5", ",") -> ["3","4","5"]
 func BIF_splitax(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
-	if !input1.IsStringOrVoid() {
-		return mlrval.FromNotStringError("splitax", input1)
+	if !input1.IsLegit() {
+		return input1
 	}
+	input1String := input1.String()
 	if !input2.IsString() {
 		return mlrval.FromNotStringError("splitax", input2)
 	}
-	input := input1.AcquireStringValue()
 	fieldSeparator := input2.AcquireStringValue()
 
-	return bif_splitax_helper(input, fieldSeparator)
+	return bif_splitax_helper(input1String, fieldSeparator)
 }
 
 // bif_splitax_helper is split out for the benefit of BIF_splitax and
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/collections_test.go b/pkg/bifs/collections_test.go
index 16ffba8c6..595e8c670 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/collections_test.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/collections_test.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 func TestBIF_length(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/datetime.go b/pkg/bifs/datetime.go
index 9fa11e6b0..84bd48fd1 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/datetime.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/datetime.go
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"time"
 
-	strptime "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/pbnjay-strptime"
+	strptime "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/pbnjay-strptime"
 	"github.com/lestrrat-go/strftime"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 const ISO8601_TIME_FORMAT = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/hashing.go b/pkg/bifs/hashing.go
index e2d09d1e4..829c67601 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/hashing.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/hashing.go
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"crypto/sha512"
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 func BIF_md5(input1 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/hashing_test.go b/pkg/bifs/hashing_test.go
index 6b44028be..5e3c177f1 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/hashing_test.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/hashing_test.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 func TestBIF_md5(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/mathlib.go b/pkg/bifs/mathlib.go
index b415cb809..1c5395f69 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/mathlib.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/mathlib.go
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ package bifs
 import (
 	"math"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/percentiles.go b/pkg/bifs/percentiles.go
index cecb98aec..ef1083879 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/percentiles.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/percentiles.go
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package bifs
 import (
 	"math"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 func GetPercentileLinearlyInterpolated(
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/random.go b/pkg/bifs/random.go
index c85509da6..007174db9 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/random.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/random.go
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ package bifs
 import (
 	"math"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 func BIF_urand() *mlrval.Mlrval {
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/regex.go b/pkg/bifs/regex.go
index 331b07e76..2095003a6 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/regex.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/regex.go
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ package bifs
 import (
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // BIF_ssub implements the ssub function -- no-frills string-replace, no
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ func BIF_strmatchx(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 	captures_array := make([]*mlrval.Mlrval, len(captures))
 
 	if len(captures) > 0 {
-		for i, _ := range captures {
+		for i := range captures {
 			if i == 0 {
 				results.PutReference("full_capture", mlrval.FromString(captures[i]))
 			} else {
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ func BIF_strmatchx(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 		}
 
 		starts_array := make([]*mlrval.Mlrval, len(starts))
-		for i, _ := range starts {
+		for i := range starts {
 			if i == 0 {
 				results.PutReference("full_start", mlrval.FromInt(int64(starts[i])))
 			} else {
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ func BIF_strmatchx(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 		}
 
 		ends_array := make([]*mlrval.Mlrval, len(ends))
-		for i, _ := range ends {
+		for i := range ends {
 			if i == 0 {
 				results.PutReference("full_end", mlrval.FromInt(int64(ends[i])))
 			} else {
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ func BIF_string_matches_regexp(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) (retval *mlrval.Ml
 	return mlrval.FromBool(boolOutput), captures
 }
 
-// BIF_string_matches_regexp implements the !=~ operator.
+// BIF_string_does_not_match_regexp implements the !=~ operator.
 func BIF_string_does_not_match_regexp(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) (retval *mlrval.Mlrval, captures []string) {
 	output, captures := BIF_string_matches_regexp(input1, input2)
 	if output.IsBool() {
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/relative_time.go b/pkg/bifs/relative_time.go
index f36258ffe..d05ce3900 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/relative_time.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/relative_time.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"math"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 func BIF_dhms2sec(input1 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/stats.go b/pkg/bifs/stats.go
index ff3531a31..bc9bc6e43 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/stats.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/stats.go
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"math"
 	"sort"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ func bif_percentiles_impl(
 
 	outputs := make([]*mlrval.Mlrval, len(ps))
 
-	for i, _ := range ps {
+	for i := range ps {
 		p, ok := ps[i].GetNumericToFloatValue()
 		if !ok {
 			outputs[i] = type_error_named_argument(funcname, "numeric", "percentile", ps[i])
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ func bif_percentiles_impl(
 		return mlrval.FromArray(outputs)
 	} else {
 		m := mlrval.NewMlrmap()
-		for i, _ := range ps {
+		for i := range ps {
 			sp := ps[i].String()
 			m.PutCopy(sp, outputs[i])
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/stats_test.go b/pkg/bifs/stats_test.go
index 735ceab83..a8e846897 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/stats_test.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/stats_test.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 func stats_test_array(n int) *mlrval.Mlrval {
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/strings.go b/pkg/bifs/strings.go
index e77de7c68..73aef62bf 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/strings.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/strings.go
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/system.go b/pkg/bifs/system.go
index d56f0bb66..e734f2998 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/system.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/system.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/platform"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/version"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/platform"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/version"
 )
 
 func BIF_version() *mlrval.Mlrval {
@@ -102,3 +102,25 @@ func BIF_exec(mlrvals []*mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 	outputString := strings.TrimRight(string(outputBytes), "\n")
 	return mlrval.FromString(outputString)
 }
+
+func BIF_stat(input1 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
+	if !input1.IsStringOrVoid() {
+		return mlrval.FromNotStringError("system", input1)
+	}
+	path := input1.AcquireStringValue()
+
+	fileInfo, err := os.Stat(path)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return mlrval.FromError(err)
+	}
+
+	output := mlrval.NewMlrmap()
+	output.PutReference("name", mlrval.FromString(fileInfo.Name()))
+	output.PutReference("size", mlrval.FromInt(fileInfo.Size()))
+	output.PutReference("mode", mlrval.FromIntShowingOctal(int64(fileInfo.Mode())))
+	output.PutReference("modtime", mlrval.FromInt(fileInfo.ModTime().UTC().Unix()))
+	output.PutReference("isdir", mlrval.FromBool(fileInfo.IsDir()))
+
+	return mlrval.FromMap(output)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/bifs/types.go b/pkg/bifs/types.go
index 87ee80448..d3e8d61ef 100644
--- a/pkg/bifs/types.go
+++ b/pkg/bifs/types.go
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ import (
 	"math"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ func float_to_int(input1 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 }
 
 func bool_to_int(input1 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
-	if input1.AcquireBoolValue() == true {
+	if input1.AcquireBoolValue() {
 		return mlrval.FromInt(1)
 	} else {
 		return mlrval.FromInt(0)
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ func float_to_int_with_base(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 }
 
 func bool_to_int_with_base(input1, input2 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
-	if input1.AcquireBoolValue() == true {
+	if input1.AcquireBoolValue() {
 		return mlrval.FromInt(1)
 	} else {
 		return mlrval.FromInt(0)
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ func int_to_float(input1 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
 }
 
 func bool_to_float(input1 *mlrval.Mlrval) *mlrval.Mlrval {
-	if input1.AcquireBoolValue() == true {
+	if input1.AcquireBoolValue() {
 		return mlrval.FromFloat(1.0)
 	} else {
 		return mlrval.FromFloat(0.0)
diff --git a/pkg/cli/flag_types.go b/pkg/cli/flag_types.go
index 590487d43..f1eef4772 100644
--- a/pkg/cli/flag_types.go
+++ b/pkg/cli/flag_types.go
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/cli/flatten_unflatten.go b/pkg/cli/flatten_unflatten.go
index cd92ec6f7..006b65f53 100644
--- a/pkg/cli/flatten_unflatten.go
+++ b/pkg/cli/flatten_unflatten.go
@@ -52,6 +52,10 @@ package cli
 // * If input is non-JSON and output is JSON:
 //   o Default is to auto-unflatten at output.
 //   o There is a --no-auto-unflatten for those who want it.
+//
+// * Overriding these: if the last verb the user has explicitly provided is
+//   flatten, don't undo that by putting an unflatten right after.
+//
 // ================================================================
 
 func DecideFinalFlatten(writerOptions *TWriterOptions) bool {
@@ -64,7 +68,22 @@ func DecideFinalFlatten(writerOptions *TWriterOptions) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
-func DecideFinalUnflatten(options *TOptions) bool {
+func DecideFinalUnflatten(
+	options *TOptions,
+	verbSequences [][]string,
+) bool {
+
+	numVerbs := len(verbSequences)
+	if numVerbs > 0 {
+		lastVerbSequence := verbSequences[numVerbs-1]
+		if len(lastVerbSequence) > 0 {
+			lastVerbName := lastVerbSequence[0]
+			if lastVerbName == "flatten" {
+				return false
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	ifmt := options.ReaderOptions.InputFileFormat
 	ofmt := options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat
 
diff --git a/pkg/cli/option_parse.go b/pkg/cli/option_parse.go
index 3cec34dc6..0070b60c8 100644
--- a/pkg/cli/option_parse.go
+++ b/pkg/cli/option_parse.go
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ package cli
 
 import (
 	"bufio"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
@@ -15,9 +16,9 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/mattn/go-isatty"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // FinalizeReaderOptions does a few things.
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ import (
 //   - IFS/IPS can have escapes like "\x1f" which aren't valid regex literals
 //     so we unhex them. For example, from "\x1f" -- the four bytes '\', 'x', '1', 'f'
 //     -- to the single byte with hex code 0x1f.
-func FinalizeReaderOptions(readerOptions *TReaderOptions) {
+func FinalizeReaderOptions(readerOptions *TReaderOptions) error {
 
 	readerOptions.IFS = lib.UnhexStringLiteral(readerOptions.IFS)
 	readerOptions.IPS = lib.UnhexStringLiteral(readerOptions.IPS)
@@ -57,12 +58,17 @@ func FinalizeReaderOptions(readerOptions *TReaderOptions) {
 	readerOptions.IFS = lib.UnbackslashStringLiteral(readerOptions.IFS)
 	readerOptions.IPS = lib.UnbackslashStringLiteral(readerOptions.IPS)
 	readerOptions.IRS = lib.UnbackslashStringLiteral(readerOptions.IRS)
+
+	if readerOptions.IRS == "" {
+		return errors.New("empty IRS")
+	}
+	return nil
 }
 
 // FinalizeWriterOptions unbackslashes OPS, OFS, and ORS.  This is because
 // because the '\n' at the command line which is Go "\\n" (a backslash and an
 // n) needs to become the single newline character., and likewise for "\t", etc.
-func FinalizeWriterOptions(writerOptions *TWriterOptions) {
+func FinalizeWriterOptions(writerOptions *TWriterOptions) error {
 	if !writerOptions.ofsWasSpecified {
 		writerOptions.OFS = defaultFSes[writerOptions.OutputFileFormat]
 	}
@@ -84,6 +90,8 @@ func FinalizeWriterOptions(writerOptions *TWriterOptions) {
 	writerOptions.OFS = lib.UnbackslashStringLiteral(writerOptions.OFS)
 	writerOptions.OPS = lib.UnbackslashStringLiteral(writerOptions.OPS)
 	writerOptions.ORS = lib.UnbackslashStringLiteral(writerOptions.ORS)
+
+	return nil
 }
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -96,6 +104,7 @@ var FLAG_TABLE = FlagTable{
 		&CSVTSVOnlyFlagSection,
 		&JSONOnlyFlagSection,
 		&PPRINTOnlyFlagSection,
+		&DKVPOnlyFlagSection,
 		&CompressedDataFlagSection,
 		&CommentsInDataFlagSection,
 		&OutputColorizationFlagSection,
@@ -452,7 +461,7 @@ var JSONOnlyFlagSection = FlagSection{
 
 		{
 			name: "--no-jlistwrap",
-			help: "Wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is the default for JSON Lines output format.",
+			help: "Do not wrap JSON output in outermost `[ ]`. This is the default for JSON Lines output format.",
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.WriterOptions.WrapJSONOutputInOuterList = false
 				*pargi += 1
@@ -515,6 +524,31 @@ var PPRINTOnlyFlagSection = FlagSection{
 	},
 }
 
+// ================================================================
+// DKVP-ONLY FLAGS
+
+func DKVPOnlyPrintInfo() {
+	fmt.Println("These are flags which are applicable to DKVP format.")
+}
+
+func init() { DKVPOnlyFlagSection.Sort() }
+
+var DKVPOnlyFlagSection = FlagSection{
+	name:        "DKVP-only flags",
+	infoPrinter: DKVPOnlyPrintInfo,
+	flags: []Flag{
+
+		{
+			name: "--incr-key",
+			help: "Without this option, keyless DKVP fields are keyed by field number.  For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50` is ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$3=30,$d=40,$5=50`.  With this option, they're keyed by a running counter of keyless fields.  For example: `a=10,b=20,30,d=40,50` is ingested as `$a=10,$b=20,$1=30,$d=40,$2=50`.",
+			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
+				options.WriterOptions.BarredPprintOutput = true
+				*pargi += 1
+			},
+		},
+	},
+}
+
 // ================================================================
 // LEGACY FLAGS
 
@@ -945,9 +979,7 @@ var FileFormatFlagSection = FlagSection{
 			name: "--ojsonl",
 			help: "Use JSON Lines format for output data.",
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
-				options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat = "json"
-				options.WriterOptions.WrapJSONOutputInOuterList = false
-				options.WriterOptions.JSONOutputMultiline = false
+				options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat = "jsonl"
 				*pargi += 1
 			},
 		},
@@ -1001,7 +1033,7 @@ var FileFormatFlagSection = FlagSection{
 		{
 			name:     "--csv",
 			help:     "Use CSV format for input and output data.",
-			altNames: []string{"-c"},
+			altNames: []string{"-c", "--c2c"},
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.ReaderOptions.InputFileFormat = "csv"
 				options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat = "csv"
@@ -1022,7 +1054,7 @@ var FileFormatFlagSection = FlagSection{
 		{
 			name:     "--tsv",
 			help:     "Use TSV format for input and output data.",
-			altNames: []string{"-t"},
+			altNames: []string{"-t", "--t2t"},
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.ReaderOptions.InputFileFormat = "tsv"
 				options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat = "tsv"
@@ -1085,8 +1117,9 @@ var FileFormatFlagSection = FlagSection{
 		},
 
 		{
-			name: "--dkvp",
-			help: "Use DKVP format for input and output data.",
+			name:     "--dkvp",
+			help:     "Use DKVP format for input and output data.",
+			altNames: []string{"--d2d"},
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.ReaderOptions.InputFileFormat = "dkvp"
 				options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat = "dkvp"
@@ -1097,7 +1130,7 @@ var FileFormatFlagSection = FlagSection{
 		{
 			name:     "--json",
 			help:     "Use JSON format for input and output data.",
-			altNames: []string{"-j"},
+			altNames: []string{"-j", "--j2j"},
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.ReaderOptions.InputFileFormat = "json"
 				options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat = "json"
@@ -1108,20 +1141,20 @@ var FileFormatFlagSection = FlagSection{
 		},
 
 		{
-			name: "--jsonl",
-			help: "Use JSON Lines format for input and output data.",
+			name:     "--jsonl",
+			help:     "Use JSON Lines format for input and output data.",
+			altNames: []string{"--l2l"},
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.ReaderOptions.InputFileFormat = "json"
-				options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat = "json"
-				options.WriterOptions.WrapJSONOutputInOuterList = false
-				options.WriterOptions.JSONOutputMultiline = false
+				options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat = "jsonl"
 				*pargi += 1
 			},
 		},
 
 		{
-			name: "--nidx",
-			help: "Use NIDX format for input and output data.",
+			name:     "--nidx",
+			help:     "Use NIDX format for input and output data.",
+			altNames: []string{"--n2n"},
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.ReaderOptions.InputFileFormat = "nidx"
 				options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat = "nidx"
@@ -1130,8 +1163,9 @@ var FileFormatFlagSection = FlagSection{
 		},
 
 		{
-			name: "--xtab",
-			help: "Use XTAB format for input and output data.",
+			name:     "--xtab",
+			help:     "Use XTAB format for input and output data.",
+			altNames: []string{"--x2x"},
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.ReaderOptions.InputFileFormat = "xtab"
 				options.WriterOptions.OutputFileFormat = "xtab"
@@ -1149,8 +1183,9 @@ var FileFormatFlagSection = FlagSection{
 		},
 
 		{
-			name: "--pprint",
-			help: "Use PPRINT format for input and output data.",
+			name:     "--pprint",
+			help:     "Use PPRINT format for input and output data.",
+			altNames: []string{"--p2p"},
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.ReaderOptions.InputFileFormat = "pprint"
 				options.ReaderOptions.IFS = " "
@@ -1170,17 +1205,17 @@ func FormatConversionKeystrokeSaverPrintInfo() {
 The letters c, t, j, l, d, n, x, p, and m refer to formats CSV, TSV, DKVP, NIDX,
 JSON, JSON Lines, XTAB, PPRINT, and markdown, respectively.
 
-| In\out   | CSV   | TSV   | JSON   | JSONL  | DKVP   | NIDX   | XTAB   | PPRINT | Markdown |
-+----------+-------+-------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----------|
-| CSV      |       | --c2t | --c2j  | --c2l  | --c2d  | --c2n  | --c2x  | --c2p  | --c2m    |
-| TSV      | --t2c |       | --t2j  | --t2l  | --t2d  | --t2n  | --t2x  | --t2p  | --t2m    |
-| JSON     | --j2c | --j2t |        | --j2l  | --j2d  | --j2n  | --j2x  | --j2p  | --j2m    |
-| JSONL    | --l2c | --l2t |        |        | --l2d  | --l2n  | --l2x  | --l2p  | --l2m    |
-| DKVP     | --d2c | --d2t | --d2j  | --d2l  |        | --d2n  | --d2x  | --d2p  | --d2m    |
-| NIDX     | --n2c | --n2t | --n2j  | --n2l  | --n2d  |        | --n2x  | --n2p  | --n2m    |
-| XTAB     | --x2c | --x2t | --x2j  | --x2l  | --x2d  | --x2n  |        | --x2p  | --x2m    |
-| PPRINT   | --p2c | --p2t | --p2j  | --p2l  | --p2d  | --p2n  | --p2x  |        | --p2m    |
-| Markdown | --m2c | --m2t | --m2j  | --m2l  | --m2d  | --m2n  | --m2x  | --m2p  |          |`)
+| In\out   | CSV      | TSV      | JSON     | JSONL | DKVP  | NIDX  | XTAB  | PPRINT | Markdown |
++----------+----------+----------+----------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------+----------|
+| CSV      | --c2c,-c | --c2t    | --c2j    | --c2l | --c2d | --c2n | --c2x | --c2p  | --c2m    |
+| TSV      | --t2c    | --t2t,-t | --t2j    | --t2l | --t2d | --t2n | --t2x | --t2p  | --t2m    |
+| JSON     | --j2c    | --j2t    | --j2j,-j | --j2l | --j2d | --j2n | --j2x | --j2p  | --j2m    |
+| JSONL    | --l2c    | --l2t    | --l2j    | --l2l | --l2d | --l2n | --l2x | --l2p  | --l2m    |
+| DKVP     | --d2c    | --d2t    | --d2j    | --d2l | --d2d | --d2n | --d2x | --d2p  | --d2m    |
+| NIDX     | --n2c    | --n2t    | --n2j    | --n2l | --n2d | --n2n | --n2x | --n2p  | --n2m    |
+| XTAB     | --x2c    | --x2t    | --x2j    | --x2l | --x2d | --x2n | --x2x | --x2p  | --x2m    |
+| PPRINT   | --p2c    | --p2t    | --p2j    | --p2l | --p2d | --p2n | --p2x | -p2p   | --p2m    |
+| Markdown | --m2c    | --m2t    | --m2j    | --m2l | --m2d | --m2n | --m2x | --m2p  |          |`)
 }
 
 func init() { FormatConversionKeystrokeSaverFlagSection.Sort() }
@@ -2384,6 +2419,15 @@ var CSVTSVOnlyFlagSection = FlagSection{
 			},
 		},
 
+		{
+			name: "--no-auto-unsparsify",
+			help: "For CSV/TSV output: if the record keys change from one row to another, emit a blank line and a new header line. This is non-compliant with RFC 4180 but it helpful for heterogeneous data.",
+			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
+				options.WriterOptions.NoAutoUnsparsify = true
+				*pargi += 1
+			},
+		},
+
 		{
 			name:     "--implicit-csv-header",
 			altNames: []string{"--headerless-csv-input", "--hi", "--implicit-tsv-header"},
@@ -2630,7 +2674,7 @@ var CommentsInDataFlagSection = FlagSection{
 		{
 			name: "--skip-comments-with",
 			arg:  "{string}",
-			help: "Ignore commented lines within input, with specified prefix.",
+			help: "Ignore commented lines within input, with specified prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix must be a single character.",
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				CheckArgCount(args, *pargi, argc, 2)
 				options.ReaderOptions.CommentString = args[*pargi+1]
@@ -2652,7 +2696,7 @@ var CommentsInDataFlagSection = FlagSection{
 		{
 			name: "--pass-comments-with",
 			arg:  "{string}",
-			help: "Immediately print commented lines within input, with specified prefix.",
+			help: "Immediately print commented lines within input, with specified prefix. For CSV input format, the prefix must be a single character.",
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				CheckArgCount(args, *pargi, argc, 2)
 				options.ReaderOptions.CommentString = args[*pargi+1]
@@ -2698,8 +2742,8 @@ Mechanisms for coloring:
 How you can control colorization:
 
 * Suppression/unsuppression:
-    * Environment variable ` + "`export MLR_NO_COLOR=true`" + ` means don't color
-      even if stdout+TTY.
+    * Environment variable ` + "`export MLR_NO_COLOR=true` or `export NO_COLOR=true`" + `
+	  means don't color even if stdout+TTY.
     * Environment variable ` + "`export MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR=true`" + ` means do color
       even if not stdout+TTY.
       For example, you might want to use this when piping mlr output to ` + "`less -r`" + `.
@@ -2860,7 +2904,7 @@ var OutputColorizationFlagSection = FlagSection{
 func FlattenUnflattenPrintInfo() {
 	fmt.Println("These flags control how Miller converts record values which are maps or arrays, when input is JSON and output is non-JSON (flattening) or input is non-JSON and output is JSON (unflattening).")
 	fmt.Println()
-	fmt.Println("See the Flatten/unflatten doc page for more information.")
+	fmt.Println("See the flatten/unflatten doc page https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/flatten-unflatten for more information.")
 }
 
 func init() { FlattenUnflattenFlagSection.Sort() }
@@ -2884,7 +2928,7 @@ var FlattenUnflattenFlagSection = FlagSection{
 
 		{
 			name: "--no-auto-flatten",
-			help: "When output is non-JSON, suppress the default auto-flatten behavior. Default: if `$y = [7,8,9]` then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9, and similarly for maps. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get `$y=[1, 2, 3]`.",
+			help: "When output is non-JSON, suppress the default auto-flatten behavior. Default: if `$y = [7,8,9]` then this flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9`, and similarly for maps. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get `$y=[1, 2, 3]`.",
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.WriterOptions.AutoFlatten = false
 				*pargi += 1
@@ -2893,7 +2937,7 @@ var FlattenUnflattenFlagSection = FlagSection{
 
 		{
 			name: "--no-auto-unflatten",
-			help: "When input non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress the default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the input has `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9` then this unflattens to `$y=[7,8,9]`.  flattens to `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9. With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`.",
+			help: "When input is non-JSON and output is JSON, suppress the default auto-unflatten behavior. Default: if the input has `y.1=7,y.2=8,y.3=9` then this unflattens to `$y=[7,8,9]`.  With `--no-auto-flatten`, instead we get `${y.1}=7,${y.2}=8,${y.3}=9`.",
 			parser: func(args []string, argc int, pargi *int, options *TOptions) {
 				options.WriterOptions.AutoUnflatten = false
 				*pargi += 1
diff --git a/pkg/cli/option_types.go b/pkg/cli/option_types.go
index 22f32658f..58917728a 100644
--- a/pkg/cli/option_types.go
+++ b/pkg/cli/option_types.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ package cli
 import (
 	"regexp"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 type TCommentHandling int
@@ -53,11 +53,12 @@ type TReaderOptions struct {
 	irsWasSpecified            bool
 	allowRepeatIFSWasSpecified bool
 
-	UseImplicitHeader   bool
-	AllowRaggedCSVInput bool
-	CSVLazyQuotes       bool
-	CSVTrimLeadingSpace bool
-	BarredPprintInput   bool
+	UseImplicitHeader    bool
+	AllowRaggedCSVInput  bool
+	CSVLazyQuotes        bool
+	CSVTrimLeadingSpace  bool
+	BarredPprintInput    bool
+	IncrementImplicitKey bool
 
 	CommentHandling TCommentHandling
 	CommentString   string
@@ -134,6 +135,40 @@ type TWriterOptions struct {
 	// (all but JSON) -- unless the user explicitly asks to suppress that.
 	AutoFlatten bool
 
+	// Default CSV/TSV:
+	//   a=1,b=2,c=3
+	//   a=4,b=5
+	// leads to
+	//   a,b,c
+	//   1 2,3
+	//   4,5, <-- note trailing empty field
+	// and
+	//   a=1,b=2,c=3
+	//   d=4,e=5
+	// leads to
+	//   fatal error
+	//
+	// With this flag:
+	//   a=1,b=2,c=3
+	//   a=4,b=5
+	// leads to
+	//   a,b,c
+	//   1 2,3
+	//
+	//   a,b
+	//   4,5
+	//
+	// and
+	//   a=1,b=2,c=3
+	//   d=4,e=5
+	// leads to
+	//   a,b,c
+	//   1,2,3
+	//
+	//   d,e
+	//   4,5
+	NoAutoUnsparsify bool
+
 	// For floating-point numbers: "" means use the Go default.
 	FPOFMT string
 
diff --git a/pkg/cli/separators.go b/pkg/cli/separators.go
index 6a52c3f2c..26c976497 100644
--- a/pkg/cli/separators.go
+++ b/pkg/cli/separators.go
@@ -21,13 +21,13 @@ const TABS_REGEX = "(\\t)+"
 const WHITESPACE_REGEX = "([ \\t])+"
 
 const ASCII_ESC = "\\x1b"
-const ASCII_ETX = "\\x04"
+const ASCII_ETX = "\\x03"
 const ASCII_FS = "\\x1c"
 const ASCII_GS = "\\x1d"
-const ASCII_NULL = "\\x01"
+const ASCII_NULL = "\\x00"
 const ASCII_RS = "\\x1e"
-const ASCII_SOH = "\\x02"
-const ASCII_STX = "\\x03"
+const ASCII_SOH = "\\x01"
+const ASCII_STX = "\\x02"
 const ASCII_US = "\\x1f"
 
 const ASV_FS = "\\x1f"
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ var SEPARATOR_REGEX_NAMES_TO_VALUES = map[string]string{
 // E.g. if IFS isn't specified, it's space for NIDX and comma for DKVP, etc.
 
 var defaultFSes = map[string]string{
+	"gen":      ",",
 	"csv":      ",",
 	"csvlite":  ",",
 	"dkvp":     ",",
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ var defaultFSes = map[string]string{
 }
 
 var defaultPSes = map[string]string{
+	"gen":      "N/A",
 	"csv":      "N/A",
 	"csvlite":  "N/A",
 	"dkvp":     "=",
@@ -106,6 +108,7 @@ var defaultPSes = map[string]string{
 }
 
 var defaultRSes = map[string]string{
+	"gen":      "\n",
 	"csv":      "\n",
 	"csvlite":  "\n",
 	"dkvp":     "\n",
@@ -118,6 +121,7 @@ var defaultRSes = map[string]string{
 }
 
 var defaultAllowRepeatIFSes = map[string]bool{
+	"gen":      false,
 	"csv":      false,
 	"csvlite":  false,
 	"dkvp":     false,
diff --git a/pkg/cli/verb_utils.go b/pkg/cli/verb_utils.go
index 421af9af8..d20901998 100644
--- a/pkg/cli/verb_utils.go
+++ b/pkg/cli/verb_utils.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // For flags with values, e.g. ["-n" "10"], while we're looking at the "-n" this let us see if the "10" slot exists.
diff --git a/pkg/climain/mlrcli_mlrrc.go b/pkg/climain/mlrcli_mlrrc.go
index d3c5c1401..ce0a85789 100644
--- a/pkg/climain/mlrcli_mlrrc.go
+++ b/pkg/climain/mlrcli_mlrrc.go
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
 )
 
 // loadMlrrcOrDie rule: If $MLRRC is set, use it and only it.  Otherwise try
diff --git a/pkg/climain/mlrcli_parse.go b/pkg/climain/mlrcli_parse.go
index 586c94d78..68ba5abea 100644
--- a/pkg/climain/mlrcli_parse.go
+++ b/pkg/climain/mlrcli_parse.go
@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/terminals"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/terminals/help"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/version"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/terminals"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/terminals/help"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/version"
 )
 
 // ParseCommandLine is the entrypoint for handling the Miller command line:
@@ -94,11 +94,21 @@ func ParseCommandLine(
 ) {
 	// mlr -s scriptfile {data-file names ...} means take the contents of
 	// scriptfile as if it were command-line items.
+
 	args, err = maybeInterpolateDashS(args)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, nil, err
 	}
 
+	// Expand "-xyz" into "-x -y -z" while leaving "--xyz" intact. This is a
+	// keystroke-saver for the user.
+	//
+	// This is OK to do globally here since Miller is quite consistent (in
+	// main, verbs, and auxents) that multi-character options start with two
+	// dashes, e.g. "--csv". (The sole exception is the sort verb's -nf/-nr
+	// which are handled specially there.)
+	args = lib.Getoptify(args)
+
 	// Pass one as described at the top of this file.
 	flagSequences, terminalSequence, verbSequences, dataFileNames := parseCommandLinePassOne(args)
 
@@ -192,8 +202,8 @@ func parseCommandLinePassOne(
 			transformerSetup := transformers.LookUp(verb)
 			if transformerSetup == nil {
 				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr,
-					"%s: verb \"%s\" not found. Please use \"%s --help\" for a list.\n",
-					"mlr", verb, "mlr")
+					"mlr: verb \"%s\" not found. Please use \"mlr -l\" for a list.\n",
+					verb)
 				os.Exit(1)
 			}
 
@@ -295,7 +305,7 @@ func parseCommandLinePassTwo(
 		rc := cli.FLAG_TABLE.Parse(args, argc, &argi, options)
 
 		// Should have been parsed OK in pass one.
-		lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(rc != true)
+		lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(!rc)
 		// Make sure we consumed the entire flag sequence as parsed by pass one.
 		lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(argi != argc)
 	}
@@ -306,8 +316,14 @@ func parseCommandLinePassTwo(
 		return nil, nil, err
 	}
 
-	cli.FinalizeReaderOptions(&options.ReaderOptions)
-	cli.FinalizeWriterOptions(&options.WriterOptions)
+	err = cli.FinalizeReaderOptions(&options.ReaderOptions)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
+	err = cli.FinalizeWriterOptions(&options.WriterOptions)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, nil, err
+	}
 
 	// Set an optional global formatter for floating-point values
 	if options.WriterOptions.FPOFMT != "" {
@@ -370,7 +386,7 @@ func parseCommandLinePassTwo(
 		recordTransformers = append(recordTransformers, transformer)
 	}
 
-	if cli.DecideFinalUnflatten(options) {
+	if cli.DecideFinalUnflatten(options, verbSequences) {
 		// E.g.  req.method=GET,req.path=/api/check becomes
 		// '{"req": {"method": "GET", "path": "/api/check"}}'
 		transformer, err := transformers.NewTransformerUnflatten(options.WriterOptions.FLATSEP, options, nil)
@@ -388,7 +404,7 @@ func parseCommandLinePassTwo(
 		options.FileNames = nil
 	}
 
-	if options.DoInPlace && (options.FileNames == nil || len(options.FileNames) == 0) {
+	if options.DoInPlace && len(options.FileNames) == 0 {
 		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s: -I option (in-place operation) requires input files.\n", "mlr")
 		os.Exit(1)
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/climain/mlrcli_shebang.go b/pkg/climain/mlrcli_shebang.go
index e0e2f91c8..cfcab1b39 100644
--- a/pkg/climain/mlrcli_shebang.go
+++ b/pkg/climain/mlrcli_shebang.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 	shellquote "github.com/kballard/go-shellquote"
 )
 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ func maybeInterpolateDashS(args []string) ([]string, error) {
 		return args, nil
 	}
 	if len(args) < 3 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: -s flag requires a filename after it.")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: -s flag requires a filename after it")
 	}
 
 	// mlr -s scriptfile input1.csv input2.csv
diff --git a/pkg/colorizer/colorizer.go b/pkg/colorizer/colorizer.go
index 3bc4525ad..cd012cffa 100644
--- a/pkg/colorizer/colorizer.go
+++ b/pkg/colorizer/colorizer.go
@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ var stdoutIsATTY = getStdoutIsATTY()
 // Read environment variables at startup time. These can be overridden
 // afterward using command-line flags.
 func init() {
-	if os.Getenv("MLR_NO_COLOR") != "" {
+	if os.Getenv("MLR_NO_COLOR") != "" || os.Getenv("NO_COLOR") != "" {
+		colorization = ColorizeOutputNever
 		colorization = ColorizeOutputNever
 	} else if os.Getenv("MLR_ALWAYS_COLOR") != "" {
 		colorization = ColorizeOutputAlways
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/ast_build.go b/pkg/dsl/ast_build.go
index f417998f6..bba98e1e3 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/ast_build.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/ast_build.go
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ package dsl
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/ast_print.go b/pkg/dsl/ast_print.go
index 4210e5b17..c735ef84c 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/ast_print.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/ast_print.go
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ func (node *ASTNode) printParexOneLineAux() {
 
 // IsLeaf determines if an AST node is a leaf node.
 func (node *ASTNode) IsLeaf() bool {
-	return node.Children == nil || len(node.Children) == 0
+	return len(node.Children) == 0
 }
 
 // ChildrenAreAllLeaves determines if an AST node's children are all leaf nodes.
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/ast_types.go b/pkg/dsl/ast_types.go
index 6856ce830..80fd7dcc5 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/ast_types.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/ast_types.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 package dsl
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/assignments.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/assignments.go
index 129ec850c..81bcac85f 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/assignments.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/assignments.go
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
 package cst
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/block_exit.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/block_exit.go
index b52b363cb..8542e88e7 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/block_exit.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/block_exit.go
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildReturnNode(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) (*ReturnNode, error)
 	} else {
 		lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(true)
 	}
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf("internal coding error: statement should not be reached.")
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("internal coding error: statement should not be reached")
 }
 
 func (node *ReturnNode) Execute(state *runtime.State) (*BlockExitPayload, error) {
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/blocks.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/blocks.go
index d51c70d75..4b47bf574 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/blocks.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/blocks.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 package cst
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/builtin_function_manager.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/builtin_function_manager.go
index 965c9529b..4a1d83bfa 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/builtin_function_manager.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/builtin_function_manager.go
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 type TFunctionClass string
@@ -2000,10 +2000,15 @@ Note that NaN has the property that NaN != NaN, so you need 'is_nan(x)' rather t
 			name:  "fmtnum",
 			class: FUNC_CLASS_CONVERSION,
 			help: `Convert int/float/bool to string using printf-style format string (https://pkg.go.dev/fmt), e.g.
-'$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. This function recurses on array and map values.`,
+'$s = fmtnum($n, "%08d")' or '$t = fmtnum($n, "%.6e")'. Miller-specific extension: "%_d" and "%_f" for comma-separated thousands. This function recurses on array and map values.`,
 			binaryFunc: bifs.BIF_fmtnum,
 			examples: []string{
-				`$x = fmtnum($x, "%.6f")`,
+				`$y = fmtnum($x, "%.6f")`,
+				`$o = fmtnum($n, "%d")`,
+				`$o = fmtnum($n, "%12d")`,
+				`$y = fmtnum($x, "%.6_f")`,
+				`$o = fmtnum($n, "%_d")`,
+				`$o = fmtnum($n, "%12_d")`,
 			},
 		},
 
@@ -2482,6 +2487,23 @@ Run a command via executable, path, args and environment, yielding its stdout mi
 			variadicFunc: bifs.BIF_exec,
 		},
 
+		{
+			name:      "stat",
+			class:     FUNC_CLASS_SYSTEM,
+			help:      `Returns a map containing information about the provided path: "name" with string value, "size" as decimal int value, "mode" as octal int value, "modtime" as int-valued epoch seconds, and "isdir" as boolean value.`,
+			unaryFunc: bifs.BIF_stat,
+			examples: []string{
+				`stat("./mlr") gives {`,
+				`  "name": "mlr",`,
+				`  "size": 38391584,`,
+				`  "mode": 0755,`,
+				`  "modtime": 1715207874,`,
+				`  "isdir": false`,
+				`}`,
+				`stat("./mlr")["size"] gives 38391584`,
+			},
+		},
+
 		{
 			name:     "version",
 			class:    FUNC_CLASS_SYSTEM,
@@ -2573,7 +2595,7 @@ func (manager *BuiltinFunctionManager) getBuiltinFunctionClasses() []string {
 	classesList := make([]string, 0)
 	for _, builtinFunctionInfo := range *manager.lookupTable {
 		class := string(builtinFunctionInfo.class)
-		if classesSeen[class] == false {
+		if !classesSeen[class] {
 			classesList = append(classesList, class)
 			classesSeen[class] = true
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/builtin_functions.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/builtin_functions.go
index ef5a6fb98..12c16ea45 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/builtin_functions.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/builtin_functions.go
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@
 package cst
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildMultipleArityFunctionCallsiteNode(
 		return root.BuildTernaryFunctionCallsiteNode(astNode, builtinFunctionInfo)
 	}
 
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+	return nil, errors.New(
 		"at CST BuildMultipleArityFunctionCallsiteNode: function name not found: " +
 			builtinFunctionInfo.name,
 	)
@@ -599,7 +600,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildVariadicFunctionCallsiteNode(
 
 	if callsiteArity < builtinFunctionInfo.minimumVariadicArity {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-			"mlr: function %s takes minimum argument count %d; got %d.\n",
+			"mlr: function %s takes minimum argument count %d; got %d",
 			builtinFunctionInfo.name,
 			builtinFunctionInfo.minimumVariadicArity,
 			callsiteArity,
@@ -609,7 +610,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildVariadicFunctionCallsiteNode(
 	if builtinFunctionInfo.maximumVariadicArity != 0 {
 		if callsiteArity > builtinFunctionInfo.maximumVariadicArity {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: function %s takes maximum argument count %d; got %d.\n",
+				"mlr: function %s takes maximum argument count %d; got %d",
 				builtinFunctionInfo.name,
 				builtinFunctionInfo.maximumVariadicArity,
 				callsiteArity,
@@ -657,7 +658,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildVariadicFunctionWithStateCallsiteNode(
 
 	if callsiteArity < builtinFunctionInfo.minimumVariadicArity {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-			"mlr: function %s takes minimum argument count %d; got %d.\n",
+			"mlr: function %s takes minimum argument count %d; got %d",
 			builtinFunctionInfo.name,
 			builtinFunctionInfo.minimumVariadicArity,
 			callsiteArity,
@@ -667,7 +668,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildVariadicFunctionWithStateCallsiteNode(
 	if builtinFunctionInfo.maximumVariadicArity != 0 {
 		if callsiteArity > builtinFunctionInfo.maximumVariadicArity {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: function %s takes maximum argument count %d; got %d.\n",
+				"mlr: function %s takes maximum argument count %d; got %d",
 				builtinFunctionInfo.name,
 				builtinFunctionInfo.maximumVariadicArity,
 				callsiteArity,
@@ -945,7 +946,7 @@ func (node *StandardTernaryOperatorNode) Evaluate(
 	}
 
 	// Short-circuit: defer evaluation unless needed
-	if boolValue == true {
+	if boolValue {
 		return node.b.Evaluate(state)
 	} else {
 		return node.c.Evaluate(state)
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/collections.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/collections.go
index 1dcee4daf..85866f7d7 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/collections.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/collections.go
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/cond.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/cond.go
index f7f0063e3..52dd30dea 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/cond.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/cond.go
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 type CondBlockNode struct {
@@ -61,12 +61,12 @@ func (node *CondBlockNode) Execute(
 		boolValue = false
 	} else if !isBool {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-			"mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean%s.",
+			"mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean%s",
 			dsl.TokenToLocationInfo(node.conditionToken),
 		)
 	}
 
-	if boolValue == true {
+	if boolValue {
 		blockExitPayload, err := node.statementBlockNode.Execute(state)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/dump.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/dump.go
index 14070527d..1114043ff 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/dump.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/dump.go
@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) buildDumpxStatementNode(
 			} else if redirectorNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeRedirectPipe {
 				retval.outputHandlerManager = output.NewPipeWriteHandlerManager(root.recordWriterOptions)
 			} else {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: unhandled redirector node type %s.", string(redirectorNode.Type))
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: unhandled redirector node type %s", string(redirectorNode.Type))
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ func (node *DumpStatementNode) dumpToStderr(
 	outputString string,
 	state *runtime.State,
 ) error {
-	fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, outputString)
+	fmt.Fprint(os.Stderr, outputString)
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ func (node *DumpStatementNode) dumpToFileOrPipe(
 	redirectorTarget := node.redirectorTargetEvaluable.Evaluate(state)
 	if !redirectorTarget.IsString() {
 		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"mlr: output redirection yielded %s, not string.",
+			"mlr: output redirection yielded %s, not string",
 			redirectorTarget.GetTypeName(),
 		)
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/emit1.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/emit1.go
index a4996e312..5ea14c8f4 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/emit1.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/emit1.go
@@ -22,10 +22,10 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type Emit1StatementNode struct {
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/emit_emitp.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/emit_emitp.go
index 3552f023d..85b9e374a 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/emit_emitp.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/emit_emitp.go
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) buildEmitXStatementNode(
 
 		} else {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: unlashed-emit node types must be local variables, field names, oosvars, or maps; got %s.",
+				"mlr: unlashed-emit node types must be local variables, field names, oosvars, or maps; got %s",
 				childNode.Type,
 			)
 		}
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) buildEmitXStatementNode(
 		for _, childNode := range emittablesNode.Children {
 			if !EMITX_NAMED_NODE_TYPES[childNode.Type] {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: lashed-emit node types must be local variables, field names, or oosvars; got %s.",
+					"mlr: lashed-emit node types must be local variables, field names, or oosvars; got %s",
 					childNode.Type,
 				)
 			}
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) buildEmitXStatementNode(
 			} else if redirectorNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeRedirectPipe {
 				retval.outputHandlerManager = output.NewPipeWriteHandlerManager(root.recordWriterOptions)
 			} else {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: unhandled redirector node type %s.", string(redirectorNode.Type))
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: unhandled redirector node type %s", string(redirectorNode.Type))
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -989,7 +989,7 @@ func (node *EmitXStatementNode) emitRecordToFileOrPipe(
 ) error {
 	redirectorTarget := node.redirectorTargetEvaluable.Evaluate(state)
 	if !redirectorTarget.IsString() {
-		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: output redirection yielded %s, not string.", redirectorTarget.GetTypeName())
+		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: output redirection yielded %s, not string", redirectorTarget.GetTypeName())
 	}
 	outputFileName := redirectorTarget.String()
 
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/emitf.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/emitf.go
index 97aebfe98..eb6812ef7 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/emitf.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/emitf.go
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildEmitFStatementNode(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) (IExecutable
 			} else if redirectorNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeRedirectPipe {
 				retval.outputHandlerManager = output.NewPipeWriteHandlerManager(root.recordWriterOptions)
 			} else {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: unhandled redirector node type %s.", string(redirectorNode.Type))
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: unhandled redirector node type %s", string(redirectorNode.Type))
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ func getNameFromNamedNode(astNode *dsl.ASTNode, description string) (string, err
 	} else if astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeDirectFieldValue {
 		return string(astNode.Token.Lit), nil
 	}
-	return "", fmt.Errorf("mlr: can't get name of node type \"%s\" for %s.", string(astNode.Type), description)
+	return "", fmt.Errorf(`mlr: can't get name of node type "%s" for %s`, string(astNode.Type), description)
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ func (node *EmitFStatementNode) emitfToFileOrPipe(
 ) error {
 	redirectorTarget := node.redirectorTargetEvaluable.Evaluate(state)
 	if !redirectorTarget.IsString() {
-		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: output redirection yielded %s, not string.", redirectorTarget.GetTypeName())
+		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: output redirection yielded %s, not string", redirectorTarget.GetTypeName())
 	}
 	outputFileName := redirectorTarget.String()
 
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/env.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/env.go
index c2f038f2d..25e70a511 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/env.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/env.go
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 type EnvironmentVariableNode struct {
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/evaluable.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/evaluable.go
index 9440537ba..ea5673be9 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/evaluable.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/evaluable.go
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/filter.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/filter.go
index 4a4d3984e..dbcbb2252 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/filter.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/filter.go
@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@
 package cst
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/for.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/for.go
index 34d6b808d..074f3b500 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/for.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/for.go
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildTripleForLoopNode(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) (*TripleForLo
 			for i := 0; i < n-1; i++ {
 				if continuationExpressionASTNode.Children[i].Type != dsl.NodeTypeAssignment {
 					return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-						"mlr: the non-final triple-for continutation statements must be assignments.",
+						"mlr: the non-final triple-for continuation statements must be assignments",
 					)
 				}
 				precontinuationAssignment, err := root.BuildAssignmentNode(
@@ -822,11 +822,11 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildTripleForLoopNode(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) (*TripleForLo
 		if bareBooleanASTNode.Type != dsl.NodeTypeBareBoolean {
 			if n == 1 {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: the triple-for continutation statement must be a bare boolean.",
+					"mlr: the triple-for continuation statement must be a bare boolean",
 				)
 			} else {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: the final triple-for continutation statement must be a bare boolean.",
+					"mlr: the final triple-for continuation statement must be a bare boolean",
 				)
 			}
 		}
@@ -898,11 +898,11 @@ func (node *TripleForLoopNode) Execute(state *runtime.State) (*BlockExitPayload,
 			boolValue, isBool := continuationValue.GetBoolValue()
 			if !isBool {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: for-loop continuation did not evaluate to boolean%s.",
+					"mlr: for-loop continuation did not evaluate to boolean%s",
 					dsl.TokenToLocationInfo(node.continuationExpressionToken),
 				)
 			}
-			if boolValue == false {
+			if !boolValue {
 				break
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/functions.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/functions.go
index 5aca6d397..c214cd349 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/functions.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/functions.go
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 package cst
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/hofs.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/hofs.go
index 87edc01b2..67ab64b4a 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/hofs.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/hofs.go
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/facette/natsort"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
-// Most function types are in the github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types package. These types, though,
+// Most function types are in the github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types package. These types, though,
 // include functions which need to access CST state in order to call back to
 // user-defined functions.  To avoid a package-cycle dependency, they are
 // defined here.
@@ -875,7 +875,7 @@ func sortAF(
 	return mlrval.FromArray(outputArray)
 }
 
-// sortAF implements sort on arrays with callback UDF.
+// sortMF implements sort on arrays with callback UDF.
 func sortMF(
 	input1 *mlrval.Mlrval,
 	input2 *mlrval.Mlrval,
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/if.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/if.go
index b947c7f6e..b85f68119 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/if.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/if.go
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -130,11 +130,11 @@ func (node *IfChainNode) Execute(state *runtime.State) (*BlockExitPayload, error
 		boolValue, isBool := condition.GetBoolValue()
 		if !isBool {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean%s.",
+				"mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean%s",
 				dsl.TokenToLocationInfo(ifItem.conditionToken),
 			)
 		}
-		if boolValue == true {
+		if boolValue {
 			blockExitPayload, err := ifItem.statementBlockNode.Execute(state)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, err
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/keyword_usage.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/keyword_usage.go
index c5bec8f7a..0f5341980 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/keyword_usage.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/keyword_usage.go
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/leaves.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/leaves.go
index 0e3621d7d..81612d85f 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/leaves.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/leaves.go
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/lvalues.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/lvalues.go
index 073c5d991..799d8801e 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/lvalues.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/lvalues.go
@@ -6,13 +6,14 @@
 package cst
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -45,11 +46,11 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildAssignableNode(
 
 	case dsl.NodeTypeArrayOrMapPositionalNameAccess:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-			"mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'.",
+			"mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'",
 		)
 	case dsl.NodeTypeArrayOrMapPositionalValueAccess:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-			"mlr: '[[[...]]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'.",
+			"mlr: '[[[...]]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'",
 		)
 
 	case dsl.NodeTypeArrayOrMapIndexAccess:
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildAssignableNode(
 		return root.BuildEnvironmentVariableLvalueNode(astNode)
 	}
 
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf(
+	return nil, errors.New(
 		"at CST BuildAssignableNode: unhandled AST node " + string(astNode.Type),
 	)
 }
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@ func (node *DirectFieldValueLvalueNode) AssignIndexed(
 	// print inrec attributes. Also, a UDF/UDS invoked from begin/end could try
 	// to access the inrec, and that would get past the validator.
 	if state.Inrec == nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("there is no current record to assign to.")
+		return fmt.Errorf("there is no current record to assign to")
 	}
 
 	// AssignmentNode checks for absent, so we just assign whatever we get
@@ -205,7 +206,7 @@ func (node *IndirectFieldValueLvalueNode) AssignIndexed(
 	// print inrec attributes. Also, a UDF/UDS invoked from begin/end could try
 	// to access the inrec, and that would get past the validator.
 	if state.Inrec == nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("there is no current record to assign to.")
+		return fmt.Errorf("there is no current record to assign to")
 	}
 
 	lhsFieldName := node.lhsFieldNameExpression.Evaluate(state)
@@ -298,7 +299,7 @@ func (node *PositionalFieldNameLvalueNode) Assign(
 	// print inrec attributes. Also, a UDF/UDS invoked from begin/end could try
 	// to access the inrec, and that would get past the validator.
 	if state.Inrec == nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("there is no current record to assign to.")
+		return fmt.Errorf("there is no current record to assign to")
 	}
 
 	lhsFieldIndex := node.lhsFieldIndexExpression.Evaluate(state)
@@ -310,7 +311,7 @@ func (node *PositionalFieldNameLvalueNode) Assign(
 		return nil
 	} else {
 		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"mlr: positional index for $[[...]] assignment must be integer; got %s.",
+			"mlr: positional index for $[[...]] assignment must be integer; got %s",
 			lhsFieldIndex.GetTypeName(),
 		)
 	}
@@ -324,7 +325,7 @@ func (node *PositionalFieldNameLvalueNode) AssignIndexed(
 	// TODO: reconsider this if /when we decide to allow string-slice
 	// assignments.
 	return fmt.Errorf(
-		"mlr: $[[...]] = ... expressions are not indexable.",
+		"mlr: $[[...]] = ... expressions are not indexable",
 	)
 }
 
@@ -416,7 +417,7 @@ func (node *PositionalFieldValueLvalueNode) AssignIndexed(
 	// print inrec attributes. Also, a UDF/UDS invoked from begin/end could try
 	// to access the inrec, and that would get past the validator.
 	if state.Inrec == nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("there is no current record to assign to.")
+		return fmt.Errorf("there is no current record to assign to")
 	}
 
 	lhsFieldIndex := node.lhsFieldIndexExpression.Evaluate(state)
@@ -434,7 +435,7 @@ func (node *PositionalFieldValueLvalueNode) AssignIndexed(
 			return nil
 		} else {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: positional index for $[[[...]]] assignment must be integer; got %s.",
+				"mlr: positional index for $[[[...]]] assignment must be integer; got %s",
 				lhsFieldIndex.GetTypeName(),
 			)
 		}
@@ -517,7 +518,7 @@ func (node *FullSrecLvalueNode) AssignIndexed(
 	// print inrec attributes. Also, a UDF/UDS invoked from begin/end could try
 	// to access the inrec, and that would get past the validator.
 	if state.Inrec == nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("there is no current record to assign to.")
+		return fmt.Errorf("there is no current record to assign to")
 	}
 
 	// AssignmentNode checks for absentness of the rvalue, so we just assign
@@ -787,7 +788,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildLocalVariableLvalueNode(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) (IAssig
 	if astNode.Children == nil { // untyped, like 'x = 3'
 		if root.strictMode {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: need typedecl such as \"var\", \"str\", \"num\", etc. for variable \"%s\" in strict mode",
+				`mlr: need typedecl such as "var", "str", "num", etc. for variable "%s" in strict mode`,
 				variableName,
 			)
 		}
@@ -1086,7 +1087,7 @@ func (node *EnvironmentVariableLvalueNode) Assign(
 
 	if !name.IsString() {
 		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"assignments to ENV[...] must have string names; got %s \"%s\"\n",
+			`assignments to ENV[...] must have string names; got %s "%s"`,
 			name.GetTypeName(),
 			name.String(),
 		)
@@ -1109,7 +1110,7 @@ func (node *EnvironmentVariableLvalueNode) AssignIndexed(
 	indices []*mlrval.Mlrval,
 	state *runtime.State,
 ) error {
-	return fmt.Errorf("mlr: ENV[...] cannot be indexed.")
+	return fmt.Errorf("mlr: ENV[...] cannot be indexed")
 }
 
 func (node *EnvironmentVariableLvalueNode) Unassign(
@@ -1133,5 +1134,5 @@ func (node *EnvironmentVariableLvalueNode) UnassignIndexed(
 	state *runtime.State,
 ) {
 	// TODO: needs error return
-	//return errors.New("mlr: ENV[...] cannot be indexed.")
+	//return errors.New("mlr: ENV[...] cannot be indexed")
 }
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/print.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/print.go
index 8c68593be..39c84f58d 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/print.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/print.go
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) buildPrintxStatementNode(
 			} else if redirectorNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeRedirectPipe {
 				retval.outputHandlerManager = output.NewPipeWriteHandlerManager(root.recordWriterOptions)
 			} else {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: unhandled redirector node type %s.", string(redirectorNode.Type))
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: unhandled redirector node type %s", string(redirectorNode.Type))
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ func (node *PrintStatementNode) printToFileOrPipe(
 ) error {
 	redirectorTarget := node.redirectorTargetEvaluable.Evaluate(state)
 	if !redirectorTarget.IsString() {
-		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: output redirection yielded %s, not string.", redirectorTarget.GetTypeName())
+		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: output redirection yielded %s, not string", redirectorTarget.GetTypeName())
 	}
 	outputFileName := redirectorTarget.String()
 
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/root.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/root.go
index f48ebc330..099301bac 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/root.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/root.go
@@ -6,18 +6,18 @@
 package cst
 
 import (
-	"container/list"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/lexer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/parser"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/lexer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/parser"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // NewEmptyRoot sets up an empty CST, before ingesting any DSL strings.  For
@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ func NewEmptyRoot(
 		udfManager:                    NewUDFManager(),
 		udsManager:                    NewUDSManager(),
 		allowUDFUDSRedefinitions:      false,
-		unresolvedFunctionCallsites:   list.New(),
-		unresolvedSubroutineCallsites: list.New(),
-		outputHandlerManagers:         list.New(),
+		unresolvedFunctionCallsites:   make([]*UDFCallsite, 0),
+		unresolvedSubroutineCallsites: make([]*UDSCallsite, 0),
+		outputHandlerManagers:         make([]output.OutputHandlerManager, 0),
 		recordWriterOptions:           recordWriterOptions,
 		dslInstanceType:               dslInstanceType,
 	}
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) IngestAST(
 	err = nil
 
 	if ast.RootNode == nil {
-		return hadWarnings, fmt.Errorf("cannot build CST from nil AST root")
+		return hadWarnings, errors.New("cannot build CST from nil AST root")
 	}
 
 	// Check for things that are syntax errors but not done in the AST for
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) regexProtectPrePass(ast *dsl.AST) {
 
 func (root *RootNode) regexProtectPrePassAux(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) {
 
-	if astNode.Children == nil || len(astNode.Children) == 0 {
+	if len(astNode.Children) == 0 {
 		return
 	}
 
@@ -363,11 +363,11 @@ func (root *RootNode) buildMainPass(ast *dsl.AST, isReplImmediate bool) error {
 // This is invoked within the buildMainPass call tree whenever a function is
 // called before it's defined.
 func (root *RootNode) rememberUnresolvedFunctionCallsite(udfCallsite *UDFCallsite) {
-	root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites.PushBack(udfCallsite)
+	root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites = append(root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites, udfCallsite)
 }
 
 func (root *RootNode) rememberUnresolvedSubroutineCallsite(udsCallsite *UDSCallsite) {
-	root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites.PushBack(udsCallsite)
+	root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites = append(root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites, udsCallsite)
 }
 
 // After-pass after buildMainPass returns, in case a function was called before
@@ -380,10 +380,9 @@ func (root *RootNode) rememberUnresolvedSubroutineCallsite(udsCallsite *UDSCalls
 // So, our error message should reflect all those options.
 
 func (root *RootNode) resolveFunctionCallsites() error {
-	for root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites.Len() > 0 {
-		unresolvedFunctionCallsite := root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites.Remove(
-			root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites.Front(),
-		).(*UDFCallsite)
+	for len(root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites) > 0 {
+		unresolvedFunctionCallsite := root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites[0]
+		root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites = root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites[1:]
 
 		functionName := unresolvedFunctionCallsite.udf.signature.funcOrSubrName
 		callsiteArity := unresolvedFunctionCallsite.udf.signature.arity
@@ -404,10 +403,9 @@ func (root *RootNode) resolveFunctionCallsites() error {
 }
 
 func (root *RootNode) resolveSubroutineCallsites() error {
-	for root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites.Len() > 0 {
-		unresolvedSubroutineCallsite := root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites.Remove(
-			root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites.Front(),
-		).(*UDSCallsite)
+	for len(root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites) > 0 {
+		unresolvedSubroutineCallsite := root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites[0]
+		root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites = root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites[1:]
 
 		subroutineName := unresolvedSubroutineCallsite.uds.signature.funcOrSubrName
 		callsiteArity := unresolvedSubroutineCallsite.uds.signature.arity
@@ -417,7 +415,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) resolveSubroutineCallsites() error {
 			return err
 		}
 		if uds == nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("mlr: subroutine name not found: " + subroutineName)
+			return errors.New("mlr: subroutine name not found: " + subroutineName)
 		}
 
 		unresolvedSubroutineCallsite.uds = uds
@@ -437,12 +435,11 @@ func (root *RootNode) resolveSubroutineCallsites() error {
 func (root *RootNode) RegisterOutputHandlerManager(
 	outputHandlerManager output.OutputHandlerManager,
 ) {
-	root.outputHandlerManagers.PushBack(outputHandlerManager)
+	root.outputHandlerManagers = append(root.outputHandlerManagers, outputHandlerManager)
 }
 
 func (root *RootNode) ProcessEndOfStream() {
-	for entry := root.outputHandlerManagers.Front(); entry != nil; entry = entry.Next() {
-		outputHandlerManager := entry.Value.(output.OutputHandlerManager)
+	for _, outputHandlerManager := range root.outputHandlerManagers {
 		errs := outputHandlerManager.Close()
 		if len(errs) != 0 {
 			for _, err := range errs {
@@ -500,8 +497,8 @@ func (root *RootNode) ExecuteREPLImmediate(state *runtime.State) (outrec *mlrval
 // This is the 'and then discarded' part of that.
 func (root *RootNode) ResetForREPL() {
 	root.replImmediateBlock = NewStatementBlockNode()
-	root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites = list.New()
-	root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites = list.New()
+	root.unresolvedFunctionCallsites = make([]*UDFCallsite, 0)
+	root.unresolvedSubroutineCallsites = make([]*UDSCallsite, 0)
 }
 
 // This is for the REPL's context-printer command.
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/signature.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/signature.go
index 1ee554763..210ac4a4e 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/signature.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/signature.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 package cst
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/statements.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/statements.go
index ce42cb854..8e8edba72 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/statements.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/statements.go
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildStatementNode(
 		return root.BuildEmitPStatementNode(astNode)
 
 	case dsl.NodeTypeBeginBlock:
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: begin blocks may only be declared at top level.")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: begin blocks may only be declared at top level")
 	case dsl.NodeTypeEndBlock:
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: end blocks may only be declared at top level.")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: end blocks may only be declared at top level")
 
 	case dsl.NodeTypeIfChain:
 		return root.BuildIfChainNode(astNode)
@@ -89,9 +89,9 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildStatementNode(
 		return root.BuildTripleForLoopNode(astNode)
 
 	case dsl.NodeTypeNamedFunctionDefinition:
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: functions may only be declared at top level.")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: functions may only be declared at top level")
 	case dsl.NodeTypeSubroutineDefinition:
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: subroutines may only be declared at top level.")
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: subroutines may only be declared at top level")
 	case dsl.NodeTypeSubroutineCallsite:
 		return root.BuildSubroutineCallsiteNode(astNode)
 
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildStatementNode(
 
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("at CST BuildStatementNode: unhandled AST node %s", string(astNode.Type))
-		break
 	}
 	return statement, nil
 }
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/subroutines.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/subroutines.go
index 6c1b76dae..3f04de745 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/subroutines.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/subroutines.go
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 package cst
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/tee.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/tee.go
index df9b8ff0b..c0ef376f1 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/tee.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/tee.go
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildTeeStatementNode(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) (IExecutable,
 		} else if redirectorNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeRedirectPipe {
 			retval.outputHandlerManager = output.NewPipeWriteHandlerManager(root.recordWriterOptions)
 		} else {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: unhandled redirector node type %s.", string(redirectorNode.Type))
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: unhandled redirector node type %s", string(redirectorNode.Type))
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildTeeStatementNode(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) (IExecutable,
 func (node *TeeStatementNode) Execute(state *runtime.State) (*BlockExitPayload, error) {
 	expression := node.expressionEvaluable.Evaluate(state)
 	if !expression.IsMap() {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: tee-evaluaiton yielded %s, not map.", expression.GetTypeName())
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: tee-evaluaiton yielded %s, not map", expression.GetTypeName())
 	}
 	err := node.teeToRedirectFunc(expression.GetMap(), state)
 	return nil, err
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ func (node *TeeStatementNode) teeToFileOrPipe(
 ) error {
 	redirectorTarget := node.redirectorTargetEvaluable.Evaluate(state)
 	if !redirectorTarget.IsString() {
-		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: output redirection yielded %s, not string.", redirectorTarget.GetTypeName())
+		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: output redirection yielded %s, not string", redirectorTarget.GetTypeName())
 	}
 	outputFileName := redirectorTarget.String()
 
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/types.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/types.go
index 4fa935edf..dea4861a6 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/types.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/types.go
@@ -5,12 +5,11 @@
 package cst
 
 import (
-	"container/list"
-
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -44,9 +43,9 @@ type RootNode struct {
 	udfManager                    *UDFManager
 	udsManager                    *UDSManager
 	allowUDFUDSRedefinitions      bool
-	unresolvedFunctionCallsites   *list.List
-	unresolvedSubroutineCallsites *list.List
-	outputHandlerManagers         *list.List
+	unresolvedFunctionCallsites   []*UDFCallsite
+	unresolvedSubroutineCallsites []*UDSCallsite
+	outputHandlerManagers         []output.OutputHandlerManager
 	recordWriterOptions           *cli.TWriterOptions
 	dslInstanceType               DSLInstanceType // put, filter, repl
 	strictMode                    bool
@@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ type RootNode struct {
 type NodeBuilder func(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) (IEvaluable, error)
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
-// This is for all statements and statemnt blocks within the CST.
+// This is for all statements and statement blocks within the CST.
 type IExecutable interface {
 	Execute(state *runtime.State) (*BlockExitPayload, error)
 }
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/udf.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/udf.go
index 042366afc..f3550669e 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/udf.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/udf.go
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildAndInstallUDF(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) error {
 
 	if BuiltinFunctionManagerInstance.LookUp(functionName) != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"mlr: function named \"%s\" must not override a built-in function of the same name.",
+			`mlr: function named "%s" must not override a built-in function of the same name`,
 			functionName,
 		)
 	}
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildAndInstallUDF(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) error {
 	if !root.allowUDFUDSRedefinitions {
 		if root.udfManager.ExistsByName(functionName) {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: function named \"%s\" has already been defined.",
+				`mlr: function named "%s" has already been defined`,
 				functionName,
 			)
 		}
@@ -495,6 +495,9 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildUDF(
 		"function return value",
 		returnValueTypeName,
 	)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 
 	lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(parameterListASTNode.Type != dsl.NodeTypeParameterList)
 	lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(parameterListASTNode.Children == nil)
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/uds.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/uds.go
index 2ed14fa56..f42d5fc20 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/uds.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/uds.go
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ func (root *RootNode) BuildAndInstallUDS(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) error {
 	if !root.allowUDFUDSRedefinitions {
 		if root.udsManager.ExistsByName(subroutineName) {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: subroutine named \"%s\" has already been defined.",
+				`mlr: subroutine named "%s" has already been defined`,
 				subroutineName,
 			)
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/validate.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/validate.go
index 305c1bf7f..8783c6003 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/validate.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/validate.go
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ func ValidateAST(
 
 	// They can do mlr put '': there are simply zero statements.
 	// But filter '' is an error.
-	if ast.RootNode.Children == nil || len(ast.RootNode.Children) == 0 {
+	if len(ast.RootNode.Children) == 0 {
 		if dslInstanceType == DSLInstanceTypeFilter {
-			return fmt.Errorf("mlr: filter statement must not be empty.")
+			return fmt.Errorf("mlr: filter statement must not be empty")
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ func validateASTAux(
 	if astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeFilterStatement {
 		if dslInstanceType == DSLInstanceTypeFilter {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: filter expressions must not also contain the \"filter\" keyword.",
+				`mlr: filter expressions must not also contain the "filter" keyword`,
 			)
 		}
 	}
@@ -89,21 +89,21 @@ func validateASTAux(
 	if astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeBeginBlock {
 		if !atTopLevel {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level.",
+				"mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level",
 			)
 		}
 		nextLevelInBeginOrEnd = true
 	} else if astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeEndBlock {
 		if !atTopLevel {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: end blocks can only be at top level.",
+				"mlr: end blocks can only be at top level",
 			)
 		}
 		nextLevelInBeginOrEnd = true
 	} else if astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeNamedFunctionDefinition {
 		if !atTopLevel {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: func blocks can only be at top level.",
+				"mlr: func blocks can only be at top level",
 			)
 		}
 		nextLevelInUDF = true
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ func validateASTAux(
 	} else if astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeSubroutineDefinition {
 		if !atTopLevel {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level.",
+				"mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level",
 			)
 		}
 		nextLevelInUDS = true
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ func validateASTAux(
 			astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeIndirectFieldValue ||
 			astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeFullSrec {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.",
+				"mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc",
 			)
 		}
 	}
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ func validateASTAux(
 	if !inLoop {
 		if astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeBreak {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops.",
+				"mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops",
 			)
 		}
 	}
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ func validateASTAux(
 	if !inLoop {
 		if astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeContinue {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops.",
+				"mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops",
 			)
 		}
 	}
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ func validateASTAux(
 	if !inUDF && !inUDS {
 		if astNode.Type == dsl.NodeTypeReturn {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: return statements are only valid within func/subr blocks.",
+				"mlr: return statements are only valid within func/subr blocks",
 			)
 		}
 	}
@@ -179,14 +179,14 @@ func validateASTAux(
 		if inUDF {
 			if len(astNode.Children) != 1 {
 				return fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: return statements in func blocks must return a value.",
+					"mlr: return statements in func blocks must return a value",
 				)
 			}
 		}
 		if inUDS {
 			if len(astNode.Children) != 0 {
 				return fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: return statements in subr blocks must not return a value.",
+					"mlr: return statements in subr blocks must not return a value",
 				)
 			}
 		}
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ func validateASTAux(
 		ok := VALID_LHS_NODE_TYPES[astNode.Type]
 		if !ok {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: %s is not valid on the left-hand side of an assignment.",
+				"mlr: %s is not valid on the left-hand side of an assignment",
 				astNode.Type,
 			)
 		}
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ func validateASTAux(
 		ok := VALID_LHS_NODE_TYPES[astNode.Type]
 		if !ok {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: %s is not valid for unset statement.",
+				"mlr: %s is not valid for unset statement",
 				astNode.Type,
 			)
 		}
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ func validateForLoopTwoVariableUniqueNames(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) error {
 	keyVarName := string(keyVarNode.Token.Lit)
 	valVarName := string(valVarNode.Token.Lit)
 	if keyVarName == valVarName {
-		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: redefinition of variable %s in the same scope.", keyVarName)
+		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: redefinition of variable %s in the same scope", keyVarName)
 	} else {
 		return nil
 	}
@@ -289,14 +289,14 @@ func validateForLoopMultivariableUniqueNames(astNode *dsl.ASTNode) error {
 		name := string(keyVarNode.Token.Lit)
 		_, present := seen[name]
 		if present {
-			return fmt.Errorf("mlr: redefinition of variable %s in the same scope.", name)
+			return fmt.Errorf("mlr: redefinition of variable %s in the same scope", name)
 		}
 		seen[name] = true
 	}
 
 	valVarName := string(valVarNode.Token.Lit)
 	if seen[valVarName] {
-		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: redefinition of variable %s in the same scope.", valVarName)
+		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: redefinition of variable %s in the same scope", valVarName)
 	}
 
 	return nil
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/warn.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/warn.go
index 55850c8b1..75c5d0436 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/warn.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/warn.go
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/cst/while.go b/pkg/dsl/cst/while.go
index 4e088df6c..ccdde0052 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/cst/while.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/cst/while.go
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ package cst
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ func (node *WhileLoopNode) Execute(state *runtime.State) (*BlockExitPayload, err
 		boolValue, isBool := condition.GetBoolValue()
 		if !isBool {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean%s.",
+				"mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean%s",
 				dsl.TokenToLocationInfo(node.conditionToken),
 			)
 		}
-		if boolValue != true {
+		if !boolValue {
 			break
 		}
 		blockExitPayload, err := node.statementBlockNode.Execute(state)
@@ -157,11 +157,11 @@ func (node *DoWhileLoopNode) Execute(state *runtime.State) (*BlockExitPayload, e
 		boolValue, isBool := condition.GetBoolValue()
 		if !isBool {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean%s.",
+				"mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean%s",
 				dsl.TokenToLocationInfo(node.conditionToken),
 			)
 		}
-		if boolValue == false {
+		if !boolValue {
 			break
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/dsl/token.go b/pkg/dsl/token.go
index ff79d26e0..6808941d2 100644
--- a/pkg/dsl/token.go
+++ b/pkg/dsl/token.go
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package dsl
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
 )
 
 // TokenToLocationInfo is used to track runtime errors back to source-code locations in DSL
diff --git a/pkg/entrypoint/entrypoint.go b/pkg/entrypoint/entrypoint.go
index 962fc59fc..d8c56c8cf 100644
--- a/pkg/entrypoint/entrypoint.go
+++ b/pkg/entrypoint/entrypoint.go
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/auxents"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/climain"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/platform"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/stream"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/auxents"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/climain"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/platform"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/stream"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers"
 )
 
 type MainReturn struct {
@@ -36,15 +36,6 @@ func Main() MainReturn {
 	// otherwise, we only raw ANSI escape sequences like ←[0;30m  0←[0m ←[0;31m  1
 	platform.EnableAnsiEscapeSequences()
 
-	// Expand "-xyz" into "-x -y -z" while leaving "--xyz" intact. This is a
-	// keystroke-saver for the user.
-	//
-	// This is OK to do globally here since Miller is quite consistent (in
-	// main, verbs, and auxents) that multi-character options start with two
-	// dashes, e.g. "--csv". (The sole exception is the sort verb's -nf/-nr
-	// which are handled specially there.)
-	os.Args = lib.Getoptify(os.Args)
-
 	// 'mlr repl' or 'mlr lecat' or any other non-miller-per-se toolery which
 	// is delivered (for convenience) within the mlr executable. If argv[1] is
 	// found then this function will not return.
@@ -59,7 +50,7 @@ func Main() MainReturn {
 	if !options.DoInPlace {
 		err = processToStdout(options, recordTransformers)
 	} else {
-		err = processInPlace(options)
+		err = processFilesInPlace(options)
 	}
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr: %v.\n", err)
@@ -82,7 +73,7 @@ func processToStdout(
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
-// processInPlace is in-place processing without mlr -I.
+// processFilesInPlace is in-place processing without mlr -I.
 //
 // For in-place mode, reconstruct the transformers on each input file. E.g.
 // 'mlr -I head -n 2 foo bar' should do head -n 2 on foo as well as on bar.
@@ -94,7 +85,7 @@ func processToStdout(
 // frequently used code path, this would likely lead to latent bugs. So this
 // approach leads to greater code stability.
 
-func processInPlace(
+func processFilesInPlace(
 	originalOptions *cli.TOptions,
 ) error {
 	// This should have been already checked by the CLI parser when validating
@@ -104,84 +95,107 @@ func processInPlace(
 
 	// Save off the file names from the command line.
 	fileNames := make([]string, len(originalOptions.FileNames))
-	for i, fileName := range originalOptions.FileNames {
-		fileNames[i] = fileName
-	}
+	copy(fileNames, originalOptions.FileNames)
 
 	for _, fileName := range fileNames {
-
-		if _, err := os.Stat(fileName); os.IsNotExist(err) {
-			return err
-		}
-
-		// Reconstruct the transformers for each file name, and allocate
-		// reader, mappers, and writer individually for each file name.  This
-		// way CSV headers appear in each file, head -n 10 puts 10 rows for
-		// each output file, and so on.
-		options, recordTransformers, err := climain.ParseCommandLine(os.Args)
+		err := processFileInPlace(fileName, originalOptions)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-
-		// We can't in-place update http://, https://, etc. Also, anything with
-		// --prepipe or --prepipex, we won't try to guess how to invert that
-		// command to produce re-compressed output.
-		err = lib.IsUpdateableInPlace(fileName, options.ReaderOptions.Prepipe)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-
-		containingDirectory := path.Dir(fileName)
-		// Names like ./mlr-in-place-2148227797 and ./mlr-in-place-1792078347,
-		// as revealed by printing handle.Name().
-		handle, err := os.CreateTemp(containingDirectory, "mlr-in-place-")
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-		tempFileName := handle.Name()
-
-		// If the input file is compressed and we'll be doing in-process
-		// decompression as we read the input file, try to do in-process
-		// compression as we write the output.
-		inputFileEncoding := lib.FindInputEncoding(fileName, options.ReaderOptions.FileInputEncoding)
-
-		// Get a handle with, perhaps, a recompression wrapper around it.
-		wrappedHandle, isNew, err := lib.WrapOutputHandle(handle, inputFileEncoding)
-		if err != nil {
-			os.Remove(tempFileName)
-			return err
-		}
-
-		// Run the Miller processing stream from the input file to the temp-output file.
-		err = stream.Stream([]string{fileName}, options, recordTransformers, wrappedHandle, false)
-		if err != nil {
-			os.Remove(tempFileName)
-			return err
-		}
-
-		// Close the recompressor handle, if any recompression is being applied.
-		if isNew {
-			err = wrappedHandle.Close()
-			if err != nil {
-				os.Remove(tempFileName)
-				return err
-			}
-		}
-
-		// Close the handle to the output file. This may force final writes, so
-		// it must be error-checked.
-		err = handle.Close()
-		if err != nil {
-			os.Remove(tempFileName)
-			return err
-		}
-
-		// Rename the temp-output file on top of the input file.
-		err = os.Rename(tempFileName, fileName)
-		if err != nil {
-			os.Remove(tempFileName)
-			return err
-		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+func processFileInPlace(
+	fileName string,
+	originalOptions *cli.TOptions,
+) error {
+
+	if _, err := os.Stat(fileName); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Reconstruct the transformers for each file name, and allocate
+	// reader, mappers, and writer individually for each file name.  This
+	// way CSV headers appear in each file, head -n 10 puts 10 rows for
+	// each output file, and so on.
+	options, recordTransformers, err := climain.ParseCommandLine(os.Args)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// We can't in-place update http://, https://, etc. Also, anything with
+	// --prepipe or --prepipex, we won't try to guess how to invert that
+	// command to produce re-compressed output.
+	err = lib.IsUpdateableInPlace(fileName, options.ReaderOptions.Prepipe)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Get the original file's mode so we can preserve it.
+	fileInfo, err := os.Stat(fileName)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	originalMode := fileInfo.Mode()
+
+	containingDirectory := path.Dir(fileName)
+	// Names like ./mlr-in-place-2148227797 and ./mlr-in-place-1792078347,
+	// as revealed by printing handle.Name().
+	handle, err := os.CreateTemp(containingDirectory, "mlr-in-place-")
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	tempFileName := handle.Name()
+
+	// If the input file is compressed and we'll be doing in-process
+	// decompression as we read the input file, try to do in-process
+	// compression as we write the output.
+	inputFileEncoding := lib.FindInputEncoding(fileName, options.ReaderOptions.FileInputEncoding)
+
+	// Get a handle with, perhaps, a recompression wrapper around it.
+	wrappedHandle, isNew, err := lib.WrapOutputHandle(handle, inputFileEncoding)
+	if err != nil {
+		os.Remove(tempFileName)
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Run the Miller processing stream from the input file to the temp-output file.
+	err = stream.Stream([]string{fileName}, options, recordTransformers, wrappedHandle, false)
+	if err != nil {
+		os.Remove(tempFileName)
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Close the recompressor handle, if any recompression is being applied.
+	if isNew {
+		err = wrappedHandle.Close()
+		if err != nil {
+			os.Remove(tempFileName)
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Close the handle to the output file. This may force final writes, so
+	// it must be error-checked.
+	err = handle.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		os.Remove(tempFileName)
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Rename the temp-output file on top of the input file.
+	err = os.Rename(tempFileName, fileName)
+	if err != nil {
+		os.Remove(tempFileName)
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// Set the mode to match the original.
+	err = os.Chmod(fileName, originalMode)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/pkg/go-csv/csv_reader.go b/pkg/go-csv/csv_reader.go
index 507e9a94c..5a0820a01 100644
--- a/pkg/go-csv/csv_reader.go
+++ b/pkg/go-csv/csv_reader.go
@@ -311,15 +311,28 @@ func (r *Reader) readRecord(dst []string) ([]string, error) {
 	var errRead error
 	for errRead == nil {
 		line, errRead = r.readLine()
-		if r.Comment != 0 && nextRune(line) == r.Comment {
-			line = nil
-			continue // Skip comment lines
-		}
+
+		// MILLER-SPECIFIC UPDATE: DO NOT DO THIS
+		// if r.Comment != 0 && nextRune(line) == r.Comment {
+		//   line = nil
+		//   continue // Skip comment lines
+		// }
+
 		// MILLER-SPECIFIC UPDATE: DO NOT DO THIS
 		// if errRead == nil && len(line) == lengthNL(line) {
-		// 	line = nil
-		// 	continue // Skip empty lines
+		//   line = nil
+		//   continue // Skip empty lines
 		// }
+
+		// MILLER-SPECIFIC UPDATE: If the line starts with the comment character,
+		// don't attempt to CSV-parse it -- just hand it back as a single field.
+		// This allows two things:
+		// * User comments get passed through as intended, without being reformatted;
+		// * Users can do things like `# a"b` in their comments without getting an
+		//   imbalanced-double-quote error.
+		if r.Comment != 0 && nextRune(line) == r.Comment {
+			return []string{string(line)}, nil
+		}
 		break
 	}
 	if errRead == io.EOF {
diff --git a/pkg/input/constants.go b/pkg/input/constants.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..42030c3eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/input/constants.go
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+package input
+
+const CSV_BOM = "\xef\xbb\xbf"
diff --git a/pkg/input/line_reader.go b/pkg/input/line_reader.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b1f965307
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/input/line_reader.go
@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+// This file contains the interface for file-format-specific record-readers, as
+// well as a collection of utility functions.
+
+package input
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"container/list"
+	"io"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+)
+
+type ILineReader interface {
+	// Read returns the string without the final newline (or whatever terminator).
+	// The error condition io.EOF as non-error "error" case.
+	// EOF is always returned with empty line: the code here is structured so that
+	// we do not return a non-empty line along with an EOF indicator.
+	Read() (string, error)
+}
+
+type DefaultLineReader struct {
+	underlying *bufio.Reader
+	eof        bool
+}
+
+// SingleIRSLineReader handles reading lines with a single-character terminator.
+type SingleIRSLineReader struct {
+	underlying *bufio.Reader
+	end_irs    byte
+	eof        bool
+}
+
+// MultiIRSLineReader handles reading lines which may be delimited by multi-line separators, e.g.
+// "\xe2\x90\x9e" for USV.
+type MultiIRSLineReader struct {
+	underlying *bufio.Reader
+	irs        string
+	irs_len    int
+	end_irs    byte
+	eof        bool
+}
+
+func NewLineReader(handle io.Reader, irs string) ILineReader {
+	underlying := bufio.NewReader(handle)
+
+	irs_len := len(irs)
+
+	// Not worth complicating the API by adding an error return.
+	// Empty IRS is checked elsewhere.
+	if irs_len < 1 {
+		panic("Empty IRS")
+
+	} else if irs == "\n" || irs == "\r\n" {
+		return &DefaultLineReader{
+			underlying: underlying,
+		}
+
+	} else if irs_len == 1 {
+		return &SingleIRSLineReader{
+			underlying: underlying,
+			end_irs:    irs[0],
+		}
+
+	} else {
+		return &MultiIRSLineReader{
+			underlying: underlying,
+			irs:        irs,
+			irs_len:    irs_len,
+			end_irs:    irs[irs_len-1],
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (r *DefaultLineReader) Read() (string, error) {
+
+	if r.eof {
+		return "", io.EOF
+	}
+
+	line, err := r.underlying.ReadString('\n')
+
+	// If we have EOF and a non-empty line, defer the EOF return to the next Read call.
+	if len(line) > 0 && lib.IsEOF(err) {
+		r.eof = true
+		err = nil
+	}
+
+	n := len(line)
+	if strings.HasSuffix(line, "\r\n") {
+		line = line[:n-2]
+	} else if strings.HasSuffix(line, "\n") {
+		line = line[:n-1]
+	}
+
+	return line, err
+}
+
+func (r *SingleIRSLineReader) Read() (string, error) {
+
+	if r.eof {
+		return "", io.EOF
+	}
+
+	line, err := r.underlying.ReadString(r.end_irs)
+
+	// If we have EOF and a non-empty line, defer the EOF return to the next Read call.
+	if len(line) > 0 && lib.IsEOF(err) {
+		r.eof = true
+		err = nil
+	}
+
+	n := len(line)
+	if n > 0 && line[n-1] == r.end_irs {
+		line = line[:n-1]
+	}
+
+	return line, err
+}
+
+func (r *MultiIRSLineReader) Read() (string, error) {
+
+	// bufio.Reader.ReadString supports only a single-character terminator.  So we read lines ending
+	// in the final character, until we get a line that ends in the entire sequence or EOF.
+	//
+	// Note that bufio.Scanner has a very nice bufio.Scanner.Split method which can be overridden to
+	// support custom line-ending logic.  Sadly, though, bufio.Scanner _only_ supports a fixed
+	// maximum line length, and misbehaves badly when presented with longer lines.  So we cannot use
+	// bufio.Scanner.  See also https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1501.
+
+	if r.eof {
+		return "", io.EOF
+	}
+
+	line := ""
+
+	for {
+
+		piece, err := r.underlying.ReadString(r.end_irs)
+
+		// If we have EOF and a non-empty line, defer the EOF return to the next Read call.
+		if len(piece) > 0 && lib.IsEOF(err) {
+			r.eof = true
+			err = nil
+		}
+
+		if err != nil {
+			return line, err // includes io.EOF as a non-error "error" case
+		}
+
+		if strings.HasSuffix(piece, r.irs) {
+			piece = piece[:len(piece)-r.irs_len]
+			line += piece
+			break
+		}
+
+		if r.eof {
+			line += piece
+			break
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	return line, nil
+}
+
+// channelizedLineReader puts the line reading/splitting into its own goroutine in order to pipeline
+// the I/O with regard to further processing. Used by record-readers for multiple file formats.
+//
+// Lines are written to the channel with their trailing newline (or whatever
+// IRS) stripped off. So, callers get "a=1,b=2" rather than "a=1,b=2\n".
+func channelizedLineReader(
+	lineReader ILineReader,
+	linesChannel chan<- *list.List,
+	downstreamDoneChannel <-chan bool, // for mlr head
+	recordsPerBatch int64,
+) {
+	i := int64(0)
+	done := false
+
+	lines := list.New()
+
+	for {
+		line, err := lineReader.Read()
+		if err != nil {
+			if lib.IsEOF(err) {
+				done = true
+				break
+			} else {
+				break
+			}
+		}
+
+		i++
+
+		lines.PushBack(line)
+
+		// See if downstream processors will be ignoring further data (e.g. mlr
+		// head).  If so, stop reading. This makes 'mlr head hugefile' exit
+		// quickly, as it should.
+		if i%recordsPerBatch == 0 {
+			select {
+			case <-downstreamDoneChannel:
+				done = true
+				break
+			default:
+				break
+			}
+			if done {
+				break
+			}
+			linesChannel <- lines
+			lines = list.New()
+		}
+
+		if done {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	linesChannel <- lines
+	close(linesChannel) // end-of-stream marker
+}
diff --git a/pkg/input/pseudo_reader_gen.go b/pkg/input/pseudo_reader_gen.go
index 6479cb4d7..e847b59ab 100644
--- a/pkg/input/pseudo_reader_gen.go
+++ b/pkg/input/pseudo_reader_gen.go
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ import (
 	"container/list"
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type PseudoReaderGen struct {
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ func (reader *PseudoReaderGen) process(
 			// avoid goroutine-scheduler thrash.
 			eof := false
 			select {
-			case _ = <-downstreamDoneChannel:
+			case <-downstreamDoneChannel:
 				eof = true
 				break
 			default:
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ func (reader *PseudoReaderGen) process(
 
 	if recordsAndContexts.Len() > 0 {
 		readerChannel <- recordsAndContexts
-		recordsAndContexts = list.New()
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader.go b/pkg/input/record_reader.go
index 096060e62..3ad932f2f 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader.go
@@ -4,19 +4,11 @@
 package input
 
 import (
-	"bufio"
 	"container/list"
-	"io"
-	"regexp"
-	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
-const CSV_BOM = "\xef\xbb\xbf"
-
 // Since Go is concurrent, the context struct (AWK-like variables such as
 // FILENAME, NF, NF, FNR, etc.) needs to be duplicated and passed through the
 // channels along with each record. Hence the initial context, which readers
@@ -32,166 +24,3 @@ type IRecordReader interface {
 		downstreamDoneChannel <-chan bool, // for mlr head
 	)
 }
-
-// NewLineScanner handles read lines which may be delimited by multi-line separators,
-// e.g. "\xe2\x90\x9e" for USV.
-func NewLineScanner(handle io.Reader, irs string) *bufio.Scanner {
-	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(handle)
-
-	// Handled by default scanner.
-	if irs == "\n" || irs == "\r\n" {
-		return scanner
-	}
-
-	irsbytes := []byte(irs)
-	irslen := len(irsbytes)
-
-	// Custom splitter
-	recordSplitter := func(
-		data []byte,
-		atEOF bool,
-	) (
-		advance int,
-		token []byte,
-		err error,
-	) {
-		datalen := len(data)
-		end := datalen - irslen
-		for i := 0; i <= end; i++ {
-			if data[i] == irsbytes[0] {
-				match := true
-				for j := 1; j < irslen; j++ {
-					if data[i+j] != irsbytes[j] {
-						match = false
-						break
-					}
-				}
-				if match {
-					return i + irslen, data[:i], nil
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		if !atEOF {
-			return 0, nil, nil
-		}
-		// There is one final token to be delivered, which may be the empty string.
-		// Returning bufio.ErrFinalToken here tells Scan there are no more tokens after this
-		// but does not trigger an error to be returned from Scan itself.
-		return 0, data, bufio.ErrFinalToken
-	}
-
-	scanner.Split(recordSplitter)
-
-	return scanner
-}
-
-// TODO: comment copiously
-//
-// Lines are written to the channel with their trailing newline (or whatever
-// IRS) stripped off. So, callers get "a=1,b=2" rather than "a=1,b=2\n".
-func channelizedLineScanner(
-	lineScanner *bufio.Scanner,
-	linesChannel chan<- *list.List,
-	downstreamDoneChannel <-chan bool, // for mlr head
-	recordsPerBatch int64,
-) {
-	i := int64(0)
-	done := false
-
-	lines := list.New()
-
-	for lineScanner.Scan() {
-		i++
-
-		lines.PushBack(lineScanner.Text())
-
-		// See if downstream processors will be ignoring further data (e.g. mlr
-		// head).  If so, stop reading. This makes 'mlr head hugefile' exit
-		// quickly, as it should.
-		if i%recordsPerBatch == 0 {
-			select {
-			case _ = <-downstreamDoneChannel:
-				done = true
-				break
-			default:
-				break
-			}
-			if done {
-				break
-			}
-			linesChannel <- lines
-			lines = list.New()
-		}
-
-		if done {
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	linesChannel <- lines
-	close(linesChannel) // end-of-stream marker
-}
-
-// IPairSplitter splits a string into left and right, e.g. for IPS.
-// This helps us reuse code for splitting by IPS string, or IPS regex.
-type iPairSplitter interface {
-	Split(input string) []string
-}
-
-func newPairSplitter(options *cli.TReaderOptions) iPairSplitter {
-	if options.IPSRegex == nil {
-		return &tIPSSplitter{ips: options.IPS}
-	} else {
-		return &tIPSRegexSplitter{ipsRegex: options.IPSRegex}
-	}
-}
-
-type tIPSSplitter struct {
-	ips string
-}
-
-func (s *tIPSSplitter) Split(input string) []string {
-	return strings.SplitN(input, s.ips, 2)
-}
-
-type tIPSRegexSplitter struct {
-	ipsRegex *regexp.Regexp
-}
-
-func (s *tIPSRegexSplitter) Split(input string) []string {
-	return lib.RegexCompiledSplitString(s.ipsRegex, input, 2)
-}
-
-// IFieldSplitter splits a string into pieces, e.g. for IFS.
-// This helps us reuse code for splitting by IFS string, or IFS regex.
-type iFieldSplitter interface {
-	Split(input string) []string
-}
-
-func newFieldSplitter(options *cli.TReaderOptions) iFieldSplitter {
-	if options.IFSRegex == nil {
-		return &tIFSSplitter{ifs: options.IFS, allowRepeatIFS: options.AllowRepeatIFS}
-	} else {
-		return &tIFSRegexSplitter{ifsRegex: options.IFSRegex}
-	}
-}
-
-type tIFSSplitter struct {
-	ifs            string
-	allowRepeatIFS bool
-}
-
-func (s *tIFSSplitter) Split(input string) []string {
-	fields := lib.SplitString(input, s.ifs)
-	if s.allowRepeatIFS {
-		fields = lib.StripEmpties(fields) // left/right trim
-	}
-	return fields
-}
-
-type tIFSRegexSplitter struct {
-	ifsRegex *regexp.Regexp
-}
-
-func (s *tIFSRegexSplitter) Split(input string) []string {
-	return lib.RegexCompiledSplitString(s.ifsRegex, input, -1)
-}
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_benchmark_test.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_benchmark_test.go
index 9d2352983..7b79c32ad 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_benchmark_test.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_benchmark_test.go
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
 )
 
-// go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input/...
+// go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input/...
 
 func BenchmarkDKVPParse(b *testing.B) {
 	readerOptions := &cli.TReaderOptions{
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_csv.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_csv.go
index ab7c1d761..aa7dec084 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_csv.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_csv.go
@@ -1,19 +1,18 @@
 package input
 
 import (
-	"bytes"
 	"container/list"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
-	csv "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/go-csv"
+	csv "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/go-csv"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -40,6 +39,11 @@ func NewRecordReaderCSV(
 	if len(readerOptions.IFS) != 1 {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("for CSV, IFS can only be a single character")
 	}
+	if readerOptions.CommentHandling != cli.CommentsAreData {
+		if len(readerOptions.CommentString) != 1 {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("for CSV, the comment prefix must be a single character")
+		}
+	}
 	return &RecordReaderCSV{
 		readerOptions:       readerOptions,
 		ifs0:                readerOptions.IFS[0],
@@ -65,8 +69,9 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderCSV) Read(
 			)
 			if err != nil {
 				errorChannel <- err
+			} else {
+				reader.processHandle(handle, "(stdin)", &context, readerChannel, errorChannel, downstreamDoneChannel)
 			}
-			reader.processHandle(handle, "(stdin)", &context, readerChannel, errorChannel, downstreamDoneChannel)
 		} else {
 			for _, filename := range filenames {
 				handle, err := lib.OpenFileForRead(
@@ -108,6 +113,14 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderCSV) processHandle(
 	csvReader.Comma = rune(reader.ifs0)
 	csvReader.LazyQuotes = reader.csvLazyQuotes
 	csvReader.TrimLeadingSpace = reader.csvTrimLeadingSpace
+
+	if reader.readerOptions.CommentHandling != cli.CommentsAreData {
+		if len(reader.readerOptions.CommentString) == 1 {
+			// Use our modified fork of the go-csv package
+			csvReader.Comment = rune(reader.readerOptions.CommentString[0])
+		}
+	}
+
 	csvRecordsChannel := make(chan *list.List, recordsPerBatch)
 	go channelizedCSVRecordScanner(csvReader, csvRecordsChannel, downstreamDoneChannel, errorChannel,
 		recordsPerBatch)
@@ -157,7 +170,7 @@ func channelizedCSVRecordScanner(
 		// quickly, as it should.
 		if i%recordsPerBatch == 0 {
 			select {
-			case _ = <-downstreamDoneChannel:
+			case <-downstreamDoneChannel:
 				done = true
 				break
 			default:
@@ -243,8 +256,7 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderCSV) getRecordBatch(
 		} else {
 			if !reader.readerOptions.AllowRaggedCSVInput {
 				err := fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: CSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d "+
-						"at filename %s row %d.\n",
+					"mlr: CSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d at filename %s row %d",
 					nh, nd, reader.filename, reader.rowNumber,
 				)
 				errorChannel <- err
@@ -318,46 +330,21 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderCSV) maybeConsumeComment(
 		// However, sadly, bytes.Buffer does not implement io.Writer because
 		// its Write method has pointer receiver. So we have a WorkaroundBuffer
 		// struct below which has non-pointer receiver.
-		buffer := NewWorkaroundBuffer()
-		csvWriter := csv.NewWriter(buffer)
-		csvWriter.Comma = rune(reader.ifs0)
-		csvWriter.Write(csvRecord)
-		csvWriter.Flush()
-		recordsAndContexts.PushBack(types.NewOutputString(buffer.String(), context))
+
+		// Contract with our fork of the go-csv CSV Reader, and, our own constructor.
+		lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(len(csvRecord) != 1)
+		recordsAndContexts.PushBack(types.NewOutputString(csvRecord[0], context))
+
 	} else /* reader.readerOptions.CommentHandling == cli.SkipComments */ {
 		// discard entirely
 	}
 	return false
 }
 
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------
-// As noted above: wraps a bytes.Buffer, whose Write method has pointer
-// receiver, in a struct with non-pointer receiver so that it implements
-// io.Writer.
-
-type WorkaroundBuffer struct {
-	pbuffer *bytes.Buffer
-}
-
-func NewWorkaroundBuffer() WorkaroundBuffer {
-	var buffer bytes.Buffer
-	return WorkaroundBuffer{
-		pbuffer: &buffer,
-	}
-}
-
-func (wb WorkaroundBuffer) Write(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
-	return wb.pbuffer.Write(p)
-}
-
-func (wb WorkaroundBuffer) String() string {
-	return wb.pbuffer.String()
-}
-
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 // BOM-stripping
 //
-// Some CSVs start with a "byte-order mark" which is the 3-byte sequene
+// Some CSVs start with a "byte-order mark" which is the 3-byte sequence
 // \xef\xbb\xbf".  Any file with such contents trips up csv.Reader:
 //
 // * If a header line is not double-quoted then we can simply look at the first
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_csvlite.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_csvlite.go
index 3664d6ea3..d658a4f99 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_csvlite.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_csvlite.go
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // recordBatchGetterCSV points to either an explicit-CSV-header or
@@ -94,16 +94,16 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderCSVLite) Read(
 			)
 			if err != nil {
 				errorChannel <- err
-				return
+			} else {
+				reader.processHandle(
+					handle,
+					"(stdin)",
+					&context,
+					readerChannel,
+					errorChannel,
+					downstreamDoneChannel,
+				)
 			}
-			reader.processHandle(
-				handle,
-				"(stdin)",
-				&context,
-				readerChannel,
-				errorChannel,
-				downstreamDoneChannel,
-			)
 		} else {
 			for _, filename := range filenames {
 				handle, err := lib.OpenFileForRead(
@@ -114,17 +114,17 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderCSVLite) Read(
 				)
 				if err != nil {
 					errorChannel <- err
-					return
+				} else {
+					reader.processHandle(
+						handle,
+						filename,
+						&context,
+						readerChannel,
+						errorChannel,
+						downstreamDoneChannel,
+					)
+					handle.Close()
 				}
-				reader.processHandle(
-					handle,
-					filename,
-					&context,
-					readerChannel,
-					errorChannel,
-					downstreamDoneChannel,
-				)
-				handle.Close()
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -144,9 +144,9 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderCSVLite) processHandle(
 	reader.headerStrings = nil
 
 	recordsPerBatch := reader.recordsPerBatch
-	lineScanner := NewLineScanner(handle, reader.readerOptions.IRS)
+	lineReader := NewLineReader(handle, reader.readerOptions.IRS)
 	linesChannel := make(chan *list.List, recordsPerBatch)
-	go channelizedLineScanner(lineScanner, linesChannel, downstreamDoneChannel, recordsPerBatch)
+	go channelizedLineReader(lineReader, linesChannel, downstreamDoneChannel, recordsPerBatch)
 
 	for {
 		recordsAndContexts, eof := reader.recordBatchGetter(reader, linesChannel, filename, context, errorChannel)
@@ -217,8 +217,7 @@ func getRecordBatchExplicitCSVHeader(
 		} else {
 			if !reader.readerOptions.AllowRaggedCSVInput && len(reader.headerStrings) != len(fields) {
 				err := fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: CSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d "+
-						"at filename %s line  %d.\n",
+					"mlr: CSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d at filename %s line %d",
 					len(reader.headerStrings), len(fields), filename, reader.inputLineNumber,
 				)
 				errorChannel <- err
@@ -342,8 +341,7 @@ func getRecordBatchImplicitCSVHeader(
 		} else {
 			if !reader.readerOptions.AllowRaggedCSVInput && len(reader.headerStrings) != len(fields) {
 				err := fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: CSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d "+
-						"at filename %s line  %d.\n",
+					"mlr: CSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d at filename %s line %d",
 					len(reader.headerStrings), len(fields), filename, reader.inputLineNumber,
 				)
 				errorChannel <- err
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_dkvp_nidx.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_dkvp_nidx.go
index 5cd92f77d..6a53c8c26 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_dkvp_nidx.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_dkvp_nidx.go
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
-// splitter_DKVP_NIDX is a function type for the one bit of code differing
+// line_splitter_DKVP_NIDX is a function type for the one bit of code differing
 // between the DKVP reader and the NIDX reader, namely, how it splits lines.
 type line_splitter_DKVP_NIDX func(reader *RecordReaderDKVPNIDX, line string) (*mlrval.Mlrmap, error)
 
@@ -68,8 +68,9 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderDKVPNIDX) Read(
 			)
 			if err != nil {
 				errorChannel <- err
+			} else {
+				reader.processHandle(handle, "(stdin)", &context, readerChannel, errorChannel, downstreamDoneChannel)
 			}
-			reader.processHandle(handle, "(stdin)", &context, readerChannel, errorChannel, downstreamDoneChannel)
 		} else {
 			for _, filename := range filenames {
 				handle, err := lib.OpenFileForRead(
@@ -101,9 +102,9 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderDKVPNIDX) processHandle(
 	context.UpdateForStartOfFile(filename)
 	recordsPerBatch := reader.recordsPerBatch
 
-	lineScanner := NewLineScanner(handle, reader.readerOptions.IRS)
+	lineReader := NewLineReader(handle, reader.readerOptions.IRS)
 	linesChannel := make(chan *list.List, recordsPerBatch)
-	go channelizedLineScanner(lineScanner, linesChannel, downstreamDoneChannel, recordsPerBatch)
+	go channelizedLineReader(lineReader, linesChannel, downstreamDoneChannel, recordsPerBatch)
 
 	for {
 		recordsAndContexts, eof := reader.getRecordBatch(linesChannel, errorChannel, context)
@@ -168,25 +169,42 @@ func recordFromDKVPLine(reader *RecordReaderDKVPNIDX, line string) (*mlrval.Mlrm
 
 	pairs := reader.fieldSplitter.Split(line)
 
+	// Without --incr-key:
+	//   echo 'a,z=b,c' | mlr cat gives 1=a,z=b,3=c
+	//   I.e. implicit keys are taken from the 1-up field counter.
+	// With it:
+	//   echo 'a,z=b,c' | mlr cat gives 1=a,z=b,2=c
+	//   I.e. implicit keys are taken from a 1-up count of fields lacking explicit keys.
+	incr_key := 0
+
 	for i, pair := range pairs {
 		kv := reader.pairSplitter.Split(pair)
 
 		if len(kv) == 0 || (len(kv) == 1 && kv[0] == "") {
 			// Ignore. This is expected when splitting with repeated IFS.
 		} else if len(kv) == 1 {
-			// E.g the pair has no equals sign: "a" rather than "a=1" or
+			// E.g. the pair has no equals sign: "a" rather than "a=1" or
 			// "a=".  Here we use the positional index as the key. This way
 			// DKVP is a generalization of NIDX.
-			key := strconv.Itoa(i + 1) // Miller userspace indices are 1-up
+			//
+			// Also: recall that Miller userspace indices are 1-up.
+			var int_key int
+			if reader.readerOptions.IncrementImplicitKey {
+				int_key = incr_key
+			} else {
+				int_key = i
+			}
+			str_key := strconv.Itoa(int_key + 1)
+			incr_key++
 			value := mlrval.FromDeferredType(kv[0])
-			_, err := record.PutReferenceMaybeDedupe(key, value, dedupeFieldNames)
+			_, err := record.PutReferenceMaybeDedupe(str_key, value, dedupeFieldNames)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}
 		} else {
-			key := kv[0]
+			str_key := kv[0]
 			value := mlrval.FromDeferredType(kv[1])
-			_, err := record.PutReferenceMaybeDedupe(key, value, dedupeFieldNames)
+			_, err := record.PutReferenceMaybeDedupe(str_key, value, dedupeFieldNames)
 			if err != nil {
 				return nil, err
 			}
@@ -203,9 +221,9 @@ func recordFromNIDXLine(reader *RecordReaderDKVPNIDX, line string) (*mlrval.Mlrm
 	var i int = 0
 	for _, value := range values {
 		i++
-		key := strconv.Itoa(i)
+		str_key := strconv.Itoa(i)
 		mval := mlrval.FromDeferredType(value)
-		record.PutReference(key, mval)
+		record.PutReference(str_key, mval)
 	}
 	return record, nil
 }
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_dkvp_test.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_dkvp_test.go
index 77e0e557f..b73b97103 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_dkvp_test.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_dkvp_test.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
 )
 
 func TestRecordFromDKVPLine(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_factory.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_factory.go
index 26d2f81ed..c4fd13934 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_factory.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_factory.go
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package input
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
 )
 
 func Create(readerOptions *cli.TReaderOptions, recordsPerBatch int64) (IRecordReader, error) {
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_json.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_json.go
index 27b9b8e2c..63d9f7368 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_json.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_json.go
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package input
 
 import (
-	"bufio"
 	"container/list"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
@@ -9,15 +8,17 @@ import (
 
 	"encoding/json"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type RecordReaderJSON struct {
 	readerOptions   *cli.TReaderOptions
 	recordsPerBatch int64 // distinct from readerOptions.RecordsPerBatch for join/repl
+	// XXX 1513
+	sawBrackets bool
 }
 
 func NewRecordReaderJSON(
@@ -46,8 +47,9 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderJSON) Read(
 			)
 			if err != nil {
 				errorChannel <- err
+			} else {
+				reader.processHandle(handle, "(stdin)", &context, readerChannel, errorChannel, downstreamDoneChannel)
 			}
-			reader.processHandle(handle, "(stdin)", &context, readerChannel, errorChannel, downstreamDoneChannel)
 		} else {
 			for _, filename := range filenames {
 				handle, err := lib.OpenFileForRead(
@@ -65,6 +67,7 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderJSON) Read(
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	context.JSONHadBrackets = reader.sawBrackets
 	readerChannel <- types.NewEndOfStreamMarkerList(&context)
 }
 
@@ -96,7 +99,7 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderJSON) processHandle(
 		i++
 		if i%recordsPerBatch == 0 {
 			select {
-			case _ = <-downstreamDoneChannel:
+			case <-downstreamDoneChannel:
 				eof = true
 				break
 			default:
@@ -137,6 +140,9 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderJSON) processHandle(
 			}
 
 		} else if mlrval.IsArray() {
+
+			reader.sawBrackets = true
+
 			records := mlrval.GetArray()
 			if records == nil {
 				errorChannel <- fmt.Errorf("internal coding error detected in JSON record-reader")
@@ -147,7 +153,7 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderJSON) processHandle(
 				if !mlrval.IsMap() {
 					// TODO: more context
 					errorChannel <- fmt.Errorf(
-						"valid but unmillerable JSON. Expected map (JSON object); got %s.",
+						"valid but unmillerable JSON. Expected map (JSON object); got %s",
 						mlrval.GetTypeName(),
 					)
 					return
@@ -168,7 +174,7 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderJSON) processHandle(
 
 		} else {
 			errorChannel <- fmt.Errorf(
-				"valid but unmillerable JSON. Expected map (JSON object); got %s.",
+				"valid but unmillerable JSON. Expected map (JSON object); got %s",
 				mlrval.GetTypeName(),
 			)
 			return
@@ -203,7 +209,7 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderJSON) processHandle(
 // JSONCommentEnabledReader implements io.Reader to strip comment lines
 // off of CSV data.
 type JSONCommentEnabledReader struct {
-	lineScanner   *bufio.Scanner
+	lineReader    ILineReader
 	readerOptions *cli.TReaderOptions
 	context       *types.Context    // Needed for channelized stdout-printing logic
 	readerChannel chan<- *list.List // list of *types.RecordAndContext
@@ -220,7 +226,7 @@ func NewJSONCommentEnabledReader(
 	readerChannel chan<- *list.List, // list of *types.RecordAndContext
 ) *JSONCommentEnabledReader {
 	return &JSONCommentEnabledReader{
-		lineScanner:   bufio.NewScanner(underlying),
+		lineReader:    NewLineReader(underlying, "\n"),
 		readerOptions: readerOptions,
 		context:       types.NewNilContext(),
 		readerChannel: readerChannel,
@@ -234,13 +240,15 @@ func (bsr *JSONCommentEnabledReader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
 		return bsr.populateFromLine(p), nil
 	}
 
+	done := false
+
 	// Loop until we can get a non-comment line to pass on, or end of file.
-	for {
+	for !done {
 		// EOF
-		if !bsr.lineScanner.Scan() {
-			return 0, io.EOF
+		line, err := bsr.lineReader.Read()
+		if err != nil {
+			return 0, err
 		}
-		line := bsr.lineScanner.Text()
 
 		// Non-comment line
 		if !strings.HasPrefix(line, bsr.readerOptions.CommentString) {
@@ -256,7 +264,12 @@ func (bsr *JSONCommentEnabledReader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
 			ell.PushBack(types.NewOutputString(line+"\n", bsr.context))
 			bsr.readerChannel <- ell
 		}
+
+		if done {
+			break
+		}
 	}
+	return 0, nil
 }
 
 // populateFromLine is a helper for Read. It takes a full line from the
@@ -268,9 +281,7 @@ func (bsr *JSONCommentEnabledReader) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
 func (bsr *JSONCommentEnabledReader) populateFromLine(p []byte) int {
 	numBytesWritten := 0
 	if len(bsr.lineBytes) < len(p) {
-		for i := 0; i < len(bsr.lineBytes); i++ {
-			p[i] = bsr.lineBytes[i]
-		}
+		copy(p, bsr.lineBytes)
 		numBytesWritten = len(bsr.lineBytes)
 		bsr.lineBytes = nil
 	} else {
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_markdown.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_markdown.go
index 22cc3a078..1766967fc 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_markdown.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_markdown.go
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package input
 import (
 	"regexp"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
 )
 
 func NewRecordReaderMarkdown(
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_pprint.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_pprint.go
index 7495a8d80..aad87769c 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_pprint.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_pprint.go
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 func NewRecordReaderPPRINT(
@@ -98,16 +98,16 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderPprintBarredOrMarkdown) Read(
 			)
 			if err != nil {
 				errorChannel <- err
-				return
+			} else {
+				reader.processHandle(
+					handle,
+					"(stdin)",
+					&context,
+					readerChannel,
+					errorChannel,
+					downstreamDoneChannel,
+				)
 			}
-			reader.processHandle(
-				handle,
-				"(stdin)",
-				&context,
-				readerChannel,
-				errorChannel,
-				downstreamDoneChannel,
-			)
 		} else {
 			for _, filename := range filenames {
 				handle, err := lib.OpenFileForRead(
@@ -118,17 +118,17 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderPprintBarredOrMarkdown) Read(
 				)
 				if err != nil {
 					errorChannel <- err
-					return
+				} else {
+					reader.processHandle(
+						handle,
+						filename,
+						&context,
+						readerChannel,
+						errorChannel,
+						downstreamDoneChannel,
+					)
+					handle.Close()
 				}
-				reader.processHandle(
-					handle,
-					filename,
-					&context,
-					readerChannel,
-					errorChannel,
-					downstreamDoneChannel,
-				)
-				handle.Close()
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderPprintBarredOrMarkdown) processHandle(
 	reader.headerStrings = nil
 
 	recordsPerBatch := reader.recordsPerBatch
-	lineScanner := NewLineScanner(handle, reader.readerOptions.IRS)
+	lineReader := NewLineReader(handle, reader.readerOptions.IRS)
 	linesChannel := make(chan *list.List, recordsPerBatch)
-	go channelizedLineScanner(lineScanner, linesChannel, downstreamDoneChannel, recordsPerBatch)
+	go channelizedLineReader(lineReader, linesChannel, downstreamDoneChannel, recordsPerBatch)
 
 	for {
 		recordsAndContexts, eof := reader.recordBatchGetter(reader, linesChannel, filename, context, errorChannel)
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ func getRecordBatchExplicitPprintHeader(
 			continue
 		}
 		fields := make([]string, npad-2)
-		for i, _ := range paddedFields {
+		for i := range paddedFields {
 			if i == 0 || i == npad-1 {
 				continue
 			}
@@ -240,8 +240,7 @@ func getRecordBatchExplicitPprintHeader(
 		} else {
 			if !reader.readerOptions.AllowRaggedCSVInput && len(reader.headerStrings) != len(fields) {
 				err := fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: PPRINT-barred header/data length mismatch %d != %d "+
-						"at filename %s line  %d.\n",
+					"mlr: PPRINT-barred header/data length mismatch %d != %d at filename %s line %d",
 					len(reader.headerStrings), len(fields), filename, reader.inputLineNumber,
 				)
 				errorChannel <- err
@@ -362,7 +361,7 @@ func getRecordBatchImplicitPprintHeader(
 		paddedFields := reader.fieldSplitter.Split(line)
 		npad := len(paddedFields)
 		fields := make([]string, npad-2)
-		for i, _ := range paddedFields {
+		for i := range paddedFields {
 			if i == 0 || i == npad-1 {
 				continue
 			}
@@ -378,8 +377,7 @@ func getRecordBatchImplicitPprintHeader(
 		} else {
 			if !reader.readerOptions.AllowRaggedCSVInput && len(reader.headerStrings) != len(fields) {
 				err := fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: CSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d "+
-						"at filename %s line  %d.\n",
+					"mlr: CSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d at filename %s line %d",
 					len(reader.headerStrings), len(fields), filename, reader.inputLineNumber,
 				)
 				errorChannel <- err
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_tsv.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_tsv.go
index a0d77aec4..f70042bbe 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_tsv.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_tsv.go
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // recordBatchGetterTSV points to either an explicit-TSV-header or
@@ -76,16 +76,16 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderTSV) Read(
 			)
 			if err != nil {
 				errorChannel <- err
-				return
+			} else {
+				reader.processHandle(
+					handle,
+					"(stdin)",
+					&context,
+					readerChannel,
+					errorChannel,
+					downstreamDoneChannel,
+				)
 			}
-			reader.processHandle(
-				handle,
-				"(stdin)",
-				&context,
-				readerChannel,
-				errorChannel,
-				downstreamDoneChannel,
-			)
 		} else {
 			for _, filename := range filenames {
 				handle, err := lib.OpenFileForRead(
@@ -96,17 +96,17 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderTSV) Read(
 				)
 				if err != nil {
 					errorChannel <- err
-					return
+				} else {
+					reader.processHandle(
+						handle,
+						filename,
+						&context,
+						readerChannel,
+						errorChannel,
+						downstreamDoneChannel,
+					)
+					handle.Close()
 				}
-				reader.processHandle(
-					handle,
-					filename,
-					&context,
-					readerChannel,
-					errorChannel,
-					downstreamDoneChannel,
-				)
-				handle.Close()
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -126,9 +126,9 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderTSV) processHandle(
 	reader.headerStrings = nil
 
 	recordsPerBatch := reader.recordsPerBatch
-	lineScanner := NewLineScanner(handle, reader.readerOptions.IRS)
+	lineReader := NewLineReader(handle, reader.readerOptions.IRS)
 	linesChannel := make(chan *list.List, recordsPerBatch)
-	go channelizedLineScanner(lineScanner, linesChannel, downstreamDoneChannel, recordsPerBatch)
+	go channelizedLineReader(lineReader, linesChannel, downstreamDoneChannel, recordsPerBatch)
 
 	for {
 		recordsAndContexts, eof := reader.recordBatchGetter(reader, linesChannel, filename, context, errorChannel)
@@ -186,8 +186,7 @@ func getRecordBatchExplicitTSVHeader(
 		} else {
 			if !reader.readerOptions.AllowRaggedCSVInput && len(reader.headerStrings) != len(fields) {
 				err := fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: TSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d "+
-						"at filename %s line  %d.\n",
+					"mlr: TSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d at filename %s line %d",
 					len(reader.headerStrings), len(fields), filename, reader.inputLineNumber,
 				)
 				errorChannel <- err
@@ -307,8 +306,7 @@ func getRecordBatchImplicitTSVHeader(
 		} else {
 			if !reader.readerOptions.AllowRaggedCSVInput && len(reader.headerStrings) != len(fields) {
 				err := fmt.Errorf(
-					"mlr: TSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d "+
-						"at filename %s line  %d.\n",
+					"mlr: TSV header/data length mismatch %d != %d at filename %s line %d",
 					len(reader.headerStrings), len(fields), filename, reader.inputLineNumber,
 				)
 				errorChannel <- err
diff --git a/pkg/input/record_reader_xtab.go b/pkg/input/record_reader_xtab.go
index 74d8dac41..5d1530007 100644
--- a/pkg/input/record_reader_xtab.go
+++ b/pkg/input/record_reader_xtab.go
@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 package input
 
 import (
-	"bufio"
 	"container/list"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
+	"os"
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type iXTABPairSplitter interface {
@@ -71,8 +71,9 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderXTAB) Read(
 			)
 			if err != nil {
 				errorChannel <- err
+			} else {
+				reader.processHandle(handle, "(stdin)", &context, readerChannel, errorChannel, downstreamDoneChannel)
 			}
-			reader.processHandle(handle, "(stdin)", &context, readerChannel, errorChannel, downstreamDoneChannel)
 		} else {
 			for _, filename := range filenames {
 				handle, err := lib.OpenFileForRead(
@@ -105,10 +106,10 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderXTAB) processHandle(
 	recordsPerBatch := reader.recordsPerBatch
 
 	// XTAB uses repeated IFS, rather than IRS, to delimit records
-	lineScanner := NewLineScanner(handle, reader.readerOptions.IFS)
+	lineReader := NewLineReader(handle, reader.readerOptions.IFS)
 
 	stanzasChannel := make(chan *list.List, recordsPerBatch)
-	go channelizedStanzaScanner(lineScanner, reader.readerOptions, stanzasChannel, downstreamDoneChannel,
+	go channelizedStanzaScanner(lineReader, reader.readerOptions, stanzasChannel, downstreamDoneChannel,
 		recordsPerBatch)
 
 	for {
@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ func (reader *RecordReaderXTAB) processHandle(
 // start or end of file. A single stanza, once parsed, will become a single
 // record.
 func channelizedStanzaScanner(
-	lineScanner *bufio.Scanner,
+	lineReader ILineReader,
 	readerOptions *cli.TReaderOptions,
 	stanzasChannel chan<- *list.List, // list of list of string
 	downstreamDoneChannel <-chan bool, // for mlr head
@@ -150,8 +151,17 @@ func channelizedStanzaScanner(
 	stanzas := list.New()
 	stanza := newStanza()
 
-	for lineScanner.Scan() {
-		line := lineScanner.Text()
+	for {
+		line, err := lineReader.Read()
+		if err != nil {
+			if lib.IsEOF(err) {
+				done = true
+				break
+			} else {
+				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr: %#v\n", err)
+				break
+			}
+		}
 
 		// Check for comments-in-data feature
 		// TODO: function-pointer this away
@@ -192,7 +202,7 @@ func channelizedStanzaScanner(
 		// quickly, as it should.
 		if numStanzasSeen%recordsPerBatch == 0 {
 			select {
-			case _ = <-downstreamDoneChannel:
+			case <-downstreamDoneChannel:
 				done = true
 				break
 			default:
diff --git a/pkg/input/splitters.go b/pkg/input/splitters.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5e24e0b73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/input/splitters.go
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+// This file contains the interface for file-format-specific record-readers, as
+// well as a collection of utility functions.
+
+package input
+
+import (
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+)
+
+// IPairSplitter splits a string into left and right, e.g. for IPS.
+// This helps us reuse code for splitting by IPS string, or IPS regex.
+type iPairSplitter interface {
+	Split(input string) []string
+}
+
+func newPairSplitter(options *cli.TReaderOptions) iPairSplitter {
+	if options.IPSRegex == nil {
+		return &tIPSSplitter{ips: options.IPS}
+	} else {
+		return &tIPSRegexSplitter{ipsRegex: options.IPSRegex}
+	}
+}
+
+type tIPSSplitter struct {
+	ips string
+}
+
+func (s *tIPSSplitter) Split(input string) []string {
+	return strings.SplitN(input, s.ips, 2)
+}
+
+type tIPSRegexSplitter struct {
+	ipsRegex *regexp.Regexp
+}
+
+func (s *tIPSRegexSplitter) Split(input string) []string {
+	return lib.RegexCompiledSplitString(s.ipsRegex, input, 2)
+}
+
+// IFieldSplitter splits a string into pieces, e.g. for IFS.
+// This helps us reuse code for splitting by IFS string, or IFS regex.
+type iFieldSplitter interface {
+	Split(input string) []string
+}
+
+func newFieldSplitter(options *cli.TReaderOptions) iFieldSplitter {
+	if options.IFSRegex == nil {
+		return &tIFSSplitter{ifs: options.IFS, allowRepeatIFS: options.AllowRepeatIFS}
+	} else {
+		return &tIFSRegexSplitter{ifsRegex: options.IFSRegex}
+	}
+}
+
+type tIFSSplitter struct {
+	ifs            string
+	allowRepeatIFS bool
+}
+
+func (s *tIFSSplitter) Split(input string) []string {
+	fields := lib.SplitString(input, s.ifs)
+	if s.allowRepeatIFS {
+		fields = lib.StripEmpties(fields) // left/right trim
+	}
+	return fields
+}
+
+type tIFSRegexSplitter struct {
+	ifsRegex *regexp.Regexp
+}
+
+func (s *tIFSRegexSplitter) Split(input string) []string {
+	return lib.RegexCompiledSplitString(s.ifsRegex, input, -1)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/lib/file_readers.go b/pkg/lib/file_readers.go
index a348ff900..d370d616f 100644
--- a/pkg/lib/file_readers.go
+++ b/pkg/lib/file_readers.go
@@ -128,21 +128,24 @@ func openPrepipedHandleForRead(
 // Avoids shell-injection cases by replacing single-quote with backslash
 // single-quote and double-quote with backslack double-quote, then wrapping the
 // entire result in initial and final single-quote.
-//
-// TODO: test on Windows. Maybe needs move to pkg/platform.
+// Also wraps in single quotes in case the filename has whitespace in it
 func escapeFileNameForPopen(filename string) string {
 	var buffer bytes.Buffer
-	foundQuote := false
+	foundQuoteOrSpace := false
 	for _, c := range filename {
 		if c == '\'' || c == '"' {
 			buffer.WriteRune('\'')
 			buffer.WriteRune(c)
 			buffer.WriteRune('\'')
+			foundQuoteOrSpace = true
+		} else if c == ' ' {
+			buffer.WriteRune(c)
+			foundQuoteOrSpace = true
 		} else {
 			buffer.WriteRune(c)
 		}
 	}
-	if foundQuote {
+	if foundQuoteOrSpace {
 		return "'" + buffer.String() + "'"
 	} else {
 		return buffer.String()
@@ -266,10 +269,10 @@ func IsUpdateableInPlace(
 	if strings.HasPrefix(filename, "http://") ||
 		strings.HasPrefix(filename, "https://") ||
 		strings.HasPrefix(filename, "file://") {
-		return fmt.Errorf("http://, https://, and file:// URLs are not updateable in place.")
+		return fmt.Errorf("http://, https://, and file:// URLs are not updateable in place")
 	}
 	if prepipe != "" {
-		return fmt.Errorf("input with --prepipe or --prepipex is not updateable in place.")
+		return fmt.Errorf("input with --prepipe or --prepipex is not updateable in place")
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -311,7 +314,7 @@ func WrapOutputHandle(
 ) (io.WriteCloser, bool, error) {
 	switch inputFileEncoding {
 	case FileInputEncodingBzip2:
-		return fileWriteHandle, false, fmt.Errorf("bzip2 is not currently supported for in-place mode.")
+		return fileWriteHandle, false, fmt.Errorf("bzip2 is not currently supported for in-place mode")
 	case FileInputEncodingGzip:
 		return gzip.NewWriter(fileWriteHandle), true, nil
 	case FileInputEncodingZlib:
diff --git a/pkg/lib/halfpipe.go b/pkg/lib/halfpipe.go
index 276b2893b..3b926ef3f 100644
--- a/pkg/lib/halfpipe.go
+++ b/pkg/lib/halfpipe.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/platform"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/platform"
 )
 
 // OpenOutboundHalfPipe returns a handle to a process. Writing to that handle
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ import (
 
 func OpenOutboundHalfPipe(commandString string) (*os.File, error) {
 	readPipe, writePipe, err := os.Pipe()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 
 	var procAttr os.ProcAttr
 	procAttr.Files = []*os.File{
@@ -56,6 +59,9 @@ func OpenOutboundHalfPipe(commandString string) (*os.File, error) {
 
 func OpenInboundHalfPipe(commandString string) (*os.File, error) {
 	readPipe, writePipe, err := os.Pipe()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 
 	var procAttr os.ProcAttr
 	procAttr.Files = []*os.File{
diff --git a/pkg/lib/readfiles.go b/pkg/lib/readfiles.go
index 305f8a2b5..6eaaa0d17 100644
--- a/pkg/lib/readfiles.go
+++ b/pkg/lib/readfiles.go
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	csv "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/go-csv"
+	csv "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/go-csv"
 )
 
 // LoadStringsFromFileOrDir calls LoadStringFromFile if path exists and is a
diff --git a/pkg/lib/regex.go b/pkg/lib/regex.go
index af0a18805..b810a4b01 100644
--- a/pkg/lib/regex.go
+++ b/pkg/lib/regex.go
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ func regexCompiledSubOrGsub(
 	replacementCaptureMatrix [][]int,
 	breakOnFirst bool,
 ) string {
-	matrix := regex.FindAllSubmatchIndex([]byte(input), -1)
-	if matrix == nil || len(matrix) == 0 {
+	matrix := regex.FindAllStringSubmatchIndex(input, -1)
+	if len(matrix) == 0 {
 		return input
 	}
 
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ func RegexCompiledMatchSimple(
 	input string,
 	regex *regexp.Regexp,
 ) bool {
-	return regex.Match([]byte(input))
+	return regex.MatchString(input)
 }
 
 // RegexStringMatchWithMapResults implements much of the `strmatchx` DSL function.  This returns
@@ -320,8 +320,8 @@ func RegexCompiledMatchWithMapResults(
 	starts := make([]int, 0, 10)
 	ends := make([]int, 0, 10)
 
-	matrix := regex.FindAllSubmatchIndex([]byte(input), -1)
-	if matrix == nil || len(matrix) == 0 {
+	matrix := regex.FindAllStringSubmatchIndex(input, -1)
+	if len(matrix) == 0 {
 		return false, captures, starts, ends
 	}
 
@@ -406,8 +406,8 @@ func RegexCompiledMatchWithCaptures(
 	input string,
 	regex *regexp.Regexp,
 ) (bool, []string) {
-	matrix := regex.FindAllSubmatchIndex([]byte(input), -1)
-	if matrix == nil || len(matrix) == 0 {
+	matrix := regex.FindAllStringSubmatchIndex(input, -1)
+	if len(matrix) == 0 {
 		// Set all captures to ""
 		return false, make([]string, 10)
 	}
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ func ReplacementHasCaptures(
 	matrix [][]int,
 ) {
 	if captureDetector.MatchString(replacement) {
-		return true, captureSplitter.FindAllSubmatchIndex([]byte(replacement), -1)
+		return true, captureSplitter.FindAllStringSubmatchIndex(replacement, -1)
 	} else {
 		return false, nil
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/lib/time.go b/pkg/lib/time.go
index 4fa6818c5..8ceae8760 100644
--- a/pkg/lib/time.go
+++ b/pkg/lib/time.go
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ import (
 // statement does 'ENV["TZ"] = Asia/Istanbul'.
 func SetTZFromEnv() error {
 	tzenv := os.Getenv("TZ")
+	if tzenv == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
 	location, err := time.LoadLocation(tzenv)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("TZ environment variable appears malformed: \"%s\"", tzenv)
diff --git a/pkg/lib/util.go b/pkg/lib/util.go
index 37e90ce46..f37194ccb 100644
--- a/pkg/lib/util.go
+++ b/pkg/lib/util.go
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ func BooleanXOR(a, b bool) bool {
 }
 
 func BoolToInt(b bool) int64 {
-	if b == false {
+	if !b {
 		return 0
 	} else {
 		return 1
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap.go
index e2596f09d..562a91def 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap.go
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 //
 // * It keeps a doubly-linked list of key-value pairs.
 //
-// * By default, no hash functions are computed when the map is written to or
-//   read from.
+// * With hash-records set to false, no hash functions are computed when the map
+//   is written to or read from.
 //
 // * Gets are implemented by sequential scan through the list: given a key,
 //   the key-value pairs are scanned through until a match is (or is not) found.
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
 //   was found in the Go implementation. Test data was million-line CSV and
 //   DKVP, with a dozen columns or so.
 //
+// * However, with higher column-count (see https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1506
+//   and https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/pull/1507), non-hashing becomes
+//   a substantial penalty.
+//
 // Note however that an auxiliary constructor is provided which does use
 // a key-to-entry hashmap in place of linear search for get/put/has/delete.
 // This may be useful in certain contexts, even though it's not the default
@@ -53,12 +57,11 @@
 
 package mlrval
 
-// For the C port having this off was a noticeable performance improvement (10-15%).
-// For the Go port having it off is a less-noticeable performance improvement (5%).
-// Both these figures are for just doing mlr cat. At the moment I'm leaving this
-// default-on pending more profiling on more complex record-processing operations
-// such as mlr sort.
-var hashRecords = false
+// As noted above, hashing has a minor penalty for low column count: computing
+// hashmaps takes more time than is saved later on. But for higher column-count,
+// non-hashing has a huge penalty.  Therefore we default to on. And users can
+// use `mlr --no-hash-records` or `mlr --hash-records` to flip the behavior.
+var hashRecords = true
 
 func HashRecords(onOff bool) {
 	hashRecords = onOff
@@ -70,9 +73,7 @@ type Mlrmap struct {
 	Head       *MlrmapEntry
 	Tail       *MlrmapEntry
 
-	// Surprisingly, using this costs about 25% for cat/cut/etc tests
-	// on million-line data files (CSV, DKVP) with a dozen or so columns.
-	// So, the constructor allows callsites to use it, or not.
+	// This can be nil if hashRecords is off.
 	keysToEntries map[string]*MlrmapEntry
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_accessors.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_accessors.go
index 0ba61fda5..9552efe6c 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_accessors.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_accessors.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strconv"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // IsEmpty determines if a map is empty.
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ func (mlrmap *Mlrmap) getWithMlrvalArrayIndex(index *Mlrval) (*Mlrval, error) {
 		}
 		if i < n-1 {
 			if !next.IsMap() {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: cannot multi-index non-map.")
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: cannot multi-index non-map")
 			}
 			current = next.intf.(*Mlrmap)
 		} else {
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ func (mlrmap *Mlrmap) getWithMlrvalSingleIndex(index *Mlrval) (*Mlrval, error) {
 		return mlrmap.Get(index.String()), nil
 	} else {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-			"Record/map indices must be string, int, or array thereof; got %s", index.GetTypeName(),
+			"record/map indices must be string, int, or array thereof; got %s", index.GetTypeName(),
 		)
 	}
 }
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_flatten_unflatten.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_flatten_unflatten.go
index 8e48ba515..4e5d117d2 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_flatten_unflatten.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_flatten_unflatten.go
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ package mlrval
 import (
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -106,7 +106,18 @@ func (mlrmap *Mlrmap) isFlattenable() bool {
 // For mlr unflatten without -f. This undoes Unflatten.  This is for conversion
 // from non-JSON to JSON.  If there are fields x.a, x.b, x.c, etc. they're put
 // into a single field x with map-valued value keyed by "a", "b", "c".
-
+//
+// There is a heurtistic here though. Miller is (wildly) multi-format and needs
+// to accommodate all manner of data. In the JSON world, "." is the default
+// delimiter for nested data, and we're here to handle that. But in the R world,
+// "." is just like "_" in other languages: witness "data.frame" rather than
+// "data_frame". If the "." was intended as punctuation, in a say a field named
+// "a.b" with value 3, then unflatten-to-JSON will make `{"a": {"b": 3}}`.  This
+// is just our default behavior; users can use --no-auto-unflatten. Weirder
+// are field names like ".", ".x", "x.", "x..y", etc. The heuristic here
+// is that when we split on "." and any of the pieces around/between the dots
+// are empty string, we don't try to unflatten that field.
+//
 // Special case: if the resulting string keys are string representations of 1,
 // 2, 3, etc -- without gaps -- then the map is converted to an array.
 //
@@ -134,22 +145,38 @@ func (mlrmap *Mlrmap) CopyUnflattened(
 
 	// We'll come through this loop once for x.a, another for x.b, etc.
 	for pe := mlrmap.Head; pe != nil; pe = pe.Next {
-		// Is the field name something dot something?
-		if strings.Contains(pe.Key, separator) {
-			arrayOfIndices := SplitAXHelper(pe.Key, separator)
-			arrayval := arrayOfIndices.intf.([]*Mlrval)
-			lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(len(arrayval) < 1)
-			// If the input field name was "x.a" then remember the "x".
-			baseIndex := arrayval[0].String()
-			affectedBaseIndices[baseIndex] = true
-			// Use PutIndexed to assign $x["a"] = 7, or $x["b"] = 8, etc.
-			other.PutIndexed(
-				CopyMlrvalArray(arrayval),
-				unflattenTerminal(pe.Value).Copy(),
-			)
-		} else {
+		// If there are no dots in the field name, treat it as a terminal.
+		if !strings.Contains(pe.Key, separator) {
 			other.PutReference(pe.Key, unflattenTerminal(pe.Value))
+			continue
 		}
+
+		arrayOfIndices := SplitAXHelper(pe.Key, separator)
+		arrayval := arrayOfIndices.intf.([]*Mlrval)
+		lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(len(arrayval) < 1)
+
+		// Check for "" in any of the split pieces; treat the field as terminal if so.
+		legitDots := true
+		for i, _ := range arrayval {
+			piece := arrayval[i].String()
+			if piece == "" {
+				legitDots = false
+				break
+			}
+		}
+		if !legitDots {
+			other.PutReference(pe.Key, unflattenTerminal(pe.Value))
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// If the input field name was "x.a" then remember the "x".
+		baseIndex := arrayval[0].String()
+		affectedBaseIndices[baseIndex] = true
+		// Use PutIndexed to assign $x["a"] = 7, or $x["b"] = 8, etc.
+		other.PutIndexed(
+			CopyMlrvalArray(arrayval),
+			unflattenTerminal(pe.Value).Copy(),
+		)
 	}
 
 	// Go through all the field names which were turned into maps -- e.g.  "x"
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_json.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_json.go
index a985098eb..2db38dd9d 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_json.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrmap_json.go
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ package mlrval
 import (
 	"bytes"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_accessors.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_accessors.go
index f788cc35b..e6d8a44e3 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_accessors.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_accessors.go
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package mlrval
 import (
 	"strconv"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 func (mv *Mlrval) GetArrayLength() (int, bool) {
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_benchmark_test.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_benchmark_test.go
index 8d7c576b2..9cb79f349 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_benchmark_test.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_benchmark_test.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval/...
+// go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval/...
 
 func BenchmarkFromDeferredType(b *testing.B) {
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_cmp.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_cmp.go
index cebd3af25..f631420a2 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_cmp.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_cmp.go
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 package mlrval
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 type CmpFuncBool func(input1, input2 *Mlrval) bool
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_collections.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_collections.go
index 5f4e305a6..2813fe099 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_collections.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_collections.go
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strconv"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -396,9 +396,9 @@ func putIndexedOnArray(
 		if inBounds {
 			(*baseArray)[zindex] = rvalue.Copy()
 		} else if mindex.intf.(int64) == 0 {
-			return errors.New("mlr: zero indices are not supported. Indices are 1-up.")
+			return errors.New("mlr: zero indices are not supported. Indices are 1-up")
 		} else if mindex.intf.(int64) < 0 {
-			return errors.New("mlr: Cannot use negative indices to auto-lengthen arrays.")
+			return errors.New("mlr: Cannot use negative indices to auto-lengthen arrays")
 		} else {
 			// Array is [a,b,c] with mindices 1,2,3. Length is 3. Zindices are 0,1,2.
 			// Given mindex is 4.
@@ -431,9 +431,9 @@ func putIndexedOnArray(
 			return (*baseArray)[zindex].PutIndexed(indices[1:], rvalue)
 
 		} else if mindex.intf.(int64) == 0 {
-			return errors.New("mlr: zero indices are not supported. Indices are 1-up.")
+			return errors.New("mlr: zero indices are not supported. Indices are 1-up")
 		} else if mindex.intf.(int64) < 0 {
-			return errors.New("mlr: Cannot use negative indices to auto-lengthen arrays.")
+			return errors.New("mlr: Cannot use negative indices to auto-lengthen arrays")
 		} else {
 			// Already allocated but needs to be longer
 			LengthenMlrvalArray(baseArray, int(mindex.intf.(int64)))
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ func (mv *Mlrval) RemoveIndexed(indices []*Mlrval) error {
 
 	} else {
 		return errors.New(
-			"mlr: cannot unset index variable which is neither map nor array.",
+			"mlr: cannot unset index variable which is neither map nor array",
 		)
 	}
 }
@@ -527,20 +527,20 @@ func removeIndexedOnArray(
 			rightSlice := (*baseArray)[zindex+1 : len((*baseArray))]
 			*baseArray = append(leftSlice, rightSlice...)
 		} else if mindex.intf.(int64) == 0 {
-			return errors.New("mlr: zero indices are not supported. Indices are 1-up.")
+			return errors.New("mlr: zero indices are not supported. Indices are 1-up")
 		} else {
 			// TODO: improve wording
-			return errors.New("mlr: array index out of bounds for unset.")
+			return errors.New("mlr: array index out of bounds for unset")
 		}
 	} else {
 		// More indices remain; recurse
 		if inBounds {
 			return (*baseArray)[zindex].RemoveIndexed(indices[1:])
 		} else if mindex.intf.(int64) == 0 {
-			return errors.New("mlr: zero indices are not supported. Indices are 1-up.")
+			return errors.New("mlr: zero indices are not supported. Indices are 1-up")
 		} else {
 			// TODO: improve wording
-			return errors.New("mlr: array index out of bounds for unset.")
+			return errors.New("mlr: array index out of bounds for unset")
 		}
 
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_format.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_format.go
index 9f4cb2fe6..661cad153 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_format.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_format.go
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@ package mlrval
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"os"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
+
+	"golang.org/x/text/language"
+	"golang.org/x/text/message"
 )
 
 //----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -103,9 +107,14 @@ func newFormatter(
 	goFormatString = strings.ReplaceAll(goFormatString, "le", "e")
 	goFormatString = strings.ReplaceAll(goFormatString, "lg", "g")
 
-	// MIller 5 and below required C format strings compatible with 64-bit ints
+	// Miller 5 and below required C format strings compatible with 64-bit ints
 	// and double-precision floats: e.g. "%08lld" and "%9.6lf". For Miller 6,
-	// We must still accept these for backward compatibility.
+	// we must still accept these for backward compatibility.
+	if strings.HasSuffix(goFormatString, "_d") {
+		// Special sub-case of "d"; must be checked first
+		n := len(goFormatString)
+		return newFormatterToSeparatedInt(goFormatString[:n-2] + "d"), nil
+	}
 	if strings.HasSuffix(goFormatString, "d") {
 		return newFormatterToInt(goFormatString), nil
 	}
@@ -113,6 +122,11 @@ func newFormatter(
 		return newFormatterToInt(goFormatString), nil
 	}
 
+	if strings.HasSuffix(goFormatString, "_f") {
+		// Special sub-case of "f"; must be checked first
+		n := len(goFormatString)
+		return newFormatterToSeparatedFloat(goFormatString[:n-2] + "f"), nil
+	}
 	if strings.HasSuffix(goFormatString, "f") {
 		return newFormatterToFloat(goFormatString), nil
 	}
@@ -164,6 +178,81 @@ func (formatter *formatterToFloat) FormatFloat(floatValue float64) string {
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
+func getLanguageTag() language.Tag {
+	v, ok := os.LookupEnv("LANG")
+	if ok {
+		return language.Make(v)
+	} else {
+		return language.Make("en")
+	}
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+type formatterToSeparatedInt struct {
+	goFormatString string
+	printer        *message.Printer
+}
+
+func newFormatterToSeparatedInt(goFormatString string) IFormatter {
+	return &formatterToSeparatedInt{
+		goFormatString: goFormatString,
+		printer:        message.NewPrinter(getLanguageTag()),
+	}
+}
+
+func (formatter *formatterToSeparatedInt) Format(mv *Mlrval) *Mlrval {
+	intValue, isInt := mv.GetIntValue()
+	if isInt {
+		formatted := formatter.printer.Sprintf(formatter.goFormatString, intValue)
+		return TryFromIntString(formatted)
+	}
+	floatValue, isFloat := mv.GetFloatValue()
+	if isFloat {
+		formatted := formatter.printer.Sprintf(formatter.goFormatString, int(floatValue))
+		return TryFromIntString(formatted)
+	}
+	return mv
+}
+
+func (formatter *formatterToSeparatedInt) FormatFloat(floatValue float64) string {
+	return formatter.printer.Sprintf(formatter.goFormatString, int(floatValue))
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------
+
+type formatterToSeparatedFloat struct {
+	goFormatString string
+	printer        *message.Printer
+}
+
+func newFormatterToSeparatedFloat(goFormatString string) IFormatter {
+	return &formatterToSeparatedFloat{
+		goFormatString: goFormatString,
+		printer:        message.NewPrinter(getLanguageTag()),
+	}
+}
+
+func (formatter *formatterToSeparatedFloat) Format(mv *Mlrval) *Mlrval {
+	floatValue, isFloat := mv.GetFloatValue()
+	if isFloat {
+		formatted := formatter.printer.Sprintf(formatter.goFormatString, floatValue)
+		return TryFromFloatString(formatted)
+	}
+	intValue, isInt := mv.GetIntValue()
+	if isInt {
+		formatted := formatter.printer.Sprintf(formatter.goFormatString, float64(intValue))
+		return TryFromFloatString(formatted)
+	}
+	return mv
+}
+
+func (formatter *formatterToSeparatedFloat) FormatFloat(floatValue float64) string {
+	return formatter.printer.Sprintf(formatter.goFormatString, floatValue)
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------
+
 type formatterToInt struct {
 	goFormatString string
 }
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_get.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_get.go
index 2eb6bfb66..9c681229d 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_get.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_get.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // It's essential that we use mv.Type() not mv.mvtype, or use an Is...()
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_get_test.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_get_test.go
index 9107fbdc9..90abc8598 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_get_test.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_get_test.go
@@ -12,23 +12,23 @@ import (
 
 func TestGetString(t *testing.T) {
 	mv := FromInferredType("234")
-	stringval, ok := mv.GetStringValue()
+	_, ok := mv.GetStringValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromDeferredType("234")
-	stringval, ok = mv.GetStringValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetStringValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromInferredType("234.5")
-	stringval, ok = mv.GetStringValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetStringValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromDeferredType("234.5")
-	stringval, ok = mv.GetStringValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetStringValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromInferredType("abc")
-	stringval, ok = mv.GetStringValue()
+	stringval, ok := mv.GetStringValue()
 	assert.Equal(t, "abc", stringval)
 	assert.True(t, ok)
 
@@ -60,33 +60,33 @@ func TestGetIntValue(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.True(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromInferredType("123.4")
-	intval, ok = mv.GetIntValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetIntValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromDeferredType("123.4")
-	intval, ok = mv.GetIntValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetIntValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromInferredType("abc")
-	intval, ok = mv.GetIntValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetIntValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromDeferredType("abc")
-	intval, ok = mv.GetIntValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetIntValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 }
 
 func TestGetFloatValue(t *testing.T) {
 	mv := FromInferredType("234")
-	floatval, ok := mv.GetFloatValue()
+	_, ok := mv.GetFloatValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromDeferredType("234")
-	floatval, ok = mv.GetFloatValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetFloatValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromInferredType("234.5")
-	floatval, ok = mv.GetFloatValue()
+	floatval, ok := mv.GetFloatValue()
 	assert.Equal(t, 234.5, floatval)
 	assert.True(t, ok)
 
@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ func TestGetFloatValue(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.True(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromInferredType("abc")
-	floatval, ok = mv.GetFloatValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetFloatValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromDeferredType("abc")
-	floatval, ok = mv.GetFloatValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetFloatValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 }
 
@@ -126,38 +126,38 @@ func TestGetNumericToFloatValue(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.True(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromInferredType("abc")
-	floatval, ok = mv.GetNumericToFloatValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetNumericToFloatValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromDeferredType("abc")
-	floatval, ok = mv.GetNumericToFloatValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetNumericToFloatValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 }
 
 func TestGetBoolValue(t *testing.T) {
 	mv := FromInferredType("234")
-	boolval, ok := mv.GetBoolValue()
+	_, ok := mv.GetBoolValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromDeferredType("234")
-	boolval, ok = mv.GetBoolValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetBoolValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromInferredType("abc")
-	boolval, ok = mv.GetBoolValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetBoolValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromDeferredType("abc")
-	boolval, ok = mv.GetBoolValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetBoolValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromInferredType("true")
-	boolval, ok = mv.GetBoolValue()
+	boolval, ok := mv.GetBoolValue()
 	assert.True(t, boolval)
 	assert.True(t, ok)
 
 	mv = FromDeferredType("false")
-	boolval, ok = mv.GetBoolValue()
+	_, ok = mv.GetBoolValue()
 	assert.False(t, ok, "from-data-file \"false\" should infer to string")
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_infer.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_infer.go
index ada3792bd..2c9a20064 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_infer.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_infer.go
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package mlrval
 import (
 	"strconv"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/scan"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/scan"
 )
 
 // TODO: comment no infer-bool from data files. Always false in this path.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ func SetInferrerOctalAsInt() {
 	packageLevelInferrer = inferWithOctalAsInt
 }
 
-// SetInferrerStringOnly is for mlr -A.
+// SetInferrerIntAsFloat is for mlr -F.
 func SetInferrerIntAsFloat() {
 	packageLevelInferrer = inferWithIntAsFloat
 }
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_is.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_is.go
index 5b3fcd9e8..0cdfdadde 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_is.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_is.go
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package mlrval
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // It's essential that we use mv.Type() not mv.mvtype since types are
@@ -112,10 +112,10 @@ func (mv *Mlrval) IsBool() bool {
 }
 
 func (mv *Mlrval) IsTrue() bool {
-	return mv.Type() == MT_BOOL && mv.intf.(bool) == true
+	return mv.Type() == MT_BOOL && mv.intf.(bool)
 }
 func (mv *Mlrval) IsFalse() bool {
-	return mv.Type() == MT_BOOL && mv.intf.(bool) == false
+	return mv.Type() == MT_BOOL && !mv.intf.(bool)
 }
 
 func (mv *Mlrval) IsArray() bool {
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_json.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_json.go
index c657815ec..1a193aa14 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_json.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_json.go
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
+	"strconv"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 const JSON_INDENT_STRING string = "  "
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ func (mv *Mlrval) UnmarshalJSON(inputBytes []byte) error {
 	decoder := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(inputBytes))
 	pmv, eof, err := MlrvalDecodeFromJSON(decoder)
 	if eof {
-		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF.")
+		return fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF")
 	}
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ func TryUnmarshalJSON(inputBytes []byte) (pmv *Mlrval, err error) {
 	decoder := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(inputBytes))
 	pmv, eof, err := MlrvalDecodeFromJSON(decoder)
 	if eof {
-		err = fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF.")
+		err = fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF")
 	}
 	return pmv, err
 }
@@ -188,7 +189,9 @@ func MlrvalDecodeFromJSON(decoder *json.Decoder) (
 			)
 		}
 
-		mv := FromPending()
+		// Will be assigned as an array or a map
+		var mv *Mlrval
+
 		if isArray {
 			mv = FromEmptyArray()
 
@@ -196,14 +199,13 @@ func MlrvalDecodeFromJSON(decoder *json.Decoder) (
 				element, eof, err := MlrvalDecodeFromJSON(decoder)
 				if eof {
 					// xxx constify
-					return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF.")
+					return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF")
 				}
 				if err != nil {
 					return nil, false, err
 				}
 				mv.ArrayAppend(element)
 			}
-
 		} else {
 			mv = FromEmptyMap()
 
@@ -211,7 +213,7 @@ func MlrvalDecodeFromJSON(decoder *json.Decoder) (
 				key, eof, err := MlrvalDecodeFromJSON(decoder)
 				if eof {
 					// xxx constify
-					return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF.")
+					return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF")
 				}
 				if err != nil {
 					return nil, false, err
@@ -219,14 +221,14 @@ func MlrvalDecodeFromJSON(decoder *json.Decoder) (
 				if !key.IsString() {
 					return nil, false, fmt.Errorf(
 						// TODO: print out what was gotten
-						"mlr JSON reader: object keys must be string-valued.",
+						"mlr JSON reader: object keys must be string-valued",
 					)
 				}
 
 				value, eof, err := MlrvalDecodeFromJSON(decoder)
 				if eof {
 					// xxx constify
-					return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF.")
+					return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF")
 				}
 				if err != nil {
 					return nil, false, err
@@ -245,7 +247,7 @@ func MlrvalDecodeFromJSON(decoder *json.Decoder) (
 
 		endToken, err := decoder.Token()
 		if err == io.EOF {
-			return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF.")
+			return nil, false, fmt.Errorf("mlr: JSON parser: unexpected premature EOF")
 		}
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, false, err
@@ -352,9 +354,17 @@ func (mv *Mlrval) marshalJSONString(outputIsStdout bool) (string, error) {
 }
 
 // Wraps with double-quotes and escape-encoded JSON-special characters.
+//
+// Per https://www.json.org/json-en.html:
+//
+// * Escapes: \b \f \n \r \t \u
+// * Acceptable ranges: 0x20..0x10FFFF
+//
+// Since these are bytes here, we only need to check < 0x20, and special-case the five valid
+// escapes, and then \u the rest.
+
 func millerJSONEncodeString(input string) string {
 	var buffer bytes.Buffer
-
 	buffer.WriteByte('"')
 
 	for _, b := range []byte(input) {
@@ -362,15 +372,15 @@ func millerJSONEncodeString(input string) string {
 		case '\\':
 			buffer.WriteByte('\\')
 			buffer.WriteByte('\\')
-		case '\n':
-			buffer.WriteByte('\\')
-			buffer.WriteByte('n')
 		case '\b':
 			buffer.WriteByte('\\')
 			buffer.WriteByte('b')
 		case '\f':
 			buffer.WriteByte('\\')
 			buffer.WriteByte('f')
+		case '\n':
+			buffer.WriteByte('\\')
+			buffer.WriteByte('n')
 		case '\r':
 			buffer.WriteByte('\\')
 			buffer.WriteByte('r')
@@ -381,19 +391,32 @@ func millerJSONEncodeString(input string) string {
 			buffer.WriteByte('\\')
 			buffer.WriteByte('"')
 		default:
-			buffer.WriteByte(b)
+			if b < 0x20 {
+				s := fmt.Sprintf("\\u%04x", b)
+				buffer.WriteString(s)
+			} else {
+				buffer.WriteByte(b)
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
 	buffer.WriteByte('"')
-
 	return buffer.String()
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 func (mv *Mlrval) marshalJSONInt(outputIsStdout bool) (string, error) {
 	lib.InternalCodingErrorIf(mv.mvtype != MT_INT)
-	return colorizer.MaybeColorizeValue(mv.String(), outputIsStdout), nil
+	// Other formats would use mv.String(): for example, if the user used hex
+	// format, we would emit whatever they set. However, for JSON, we are
+	// required to disrespect the user's formatting, and only emit decimal.
+	// See also https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1761.
+	ival, ok := mv.GetIntValue()
+	if !ok {
+		panic("Internal coding error: int-typed mlrval denied int access")
+	}
+	s := strconv.FormatInt(ival, 10)
+	return colorizer.MaybeColorizeValue(s, outputIsStdout), nil
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_new.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_new.go
index cb548c3d0..9d63989b1 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_new.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_new.go
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // TODO: comment for JSON-scanner context.
@@ -197,6 +197,15 @@ func FromInt(input int64) *Mlrval {
 	}
 }
 
+func FromIntShowingOctal(input int64) *Mlrval {
+	return &Mlrval{
+		mvtype:        MT_INT,
+		printrepValid: true,
+		printrep:      fmt.Sprintf("0%o", input),
+		intf:          input,
+	}
+}
+
 // TryFromIntString is used by the mlrval Formatter (fmtnum DSL function,
 // format-values verb, etc).  Each mlrval has printrep and a printrepValid for
 // its original string, then a type-code like MT_INT or MT_FLOAT, and
@@ -280,7 +289,7 @@ func FromPrevalidatedFloatString(input string, floatval float64) *Mlrval {
 }
 
 func FromBool(input bool) *Mlrval {
-	if input == true {
+	if input {
 		return TRUE
 	} else {
 		return FALSE
@@ -309,7 +318,7 @@ func (mv *Mlrval) SetFromPrevalidatedBoolString(input string, boolval bool) *Mlr
 
 // The user-defined function is of type 'interface{}' here to avoid what would
 // otherwise be a package-dependency cycle between this package and
-// github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl/cst.
+// github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl/cst.
 //
 // Nominally the name argument is the user-specified name if `func f(a, b) {
 // ... }`, or some autogenerated UUID like `fl0052` if `func (a, b) { ... }`.
diff --git a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_output.go b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_output.go
index d864806b3..b6fd84e0f 100644
--- a/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_output.go
+++ b/pkg/mlrval/mlrval_output.go
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func (mv *Mlrval) setPrintRep() {
 			mv.printrep = strconv.FormatFloat(mv.intf.(float64), 'f', -1, 64)
 
 		case MT_BOOL:
-			if mv.intf.(bool) == true {
+			if mv.intf.(bool) {
 				mv.printrep = "true"
 			} else {
 				mv.printrep = "false"
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ func (mv *Mlrval) StringifyValuesRecursively() {
 	switch mv.mvtype {
 
 	case MT_ARRAY:
-		for i, _ := range mv.intf.([]*Mlrval) {
+		for i := range mv.intf.([]*Mlrval) {
 			mv.intf.([]*Mlrval)[i].StringifyValuesRecursively()
 		}
 
diff --git a/pkg/output/channel_writer.go b/pkg/output/channel_writer.go
index e7b0e802e..ac025398b 100644
--- a/pkg/output/channel_writer.go
+++ b/pkg/output/channel_writer.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 func ChannelWriter(
@@ -66,10 +66,11 @@ func channelWriterHandleBatch(
 
 		if !recordAndContext.EndOfStream {
 			record := recordAndContext.Record
+			context := &recordAndContext.Context
 
 			// XXX more
 			// XXX also make sure this results in exit 1 & goroutine cleanup
-			if writerOptions.FailOnDataError {
+			if writerOptions.FailOnDataError && record != nil {
 				ok := true
 				for pe := record.Head; pe != nil; pe = pe.Next {
 					if pe.Value.IsError() {
@@ -94,7 +95,7 @@ func channelWriterHandleBatch(
 			}
 
 			if record != nil {
-				err := recordWriter.Write(record, bufferedOutputStream, outputIsStdout)
+				err := recordWriter.Write(record, context, bufferedOutputStream, outputIsStdout)
 				if err != nil {
 					fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr: %v\n", err)
 					return true, true
@@ -115,7 +116,8 @@ func channelWriterHandleBatch(
 			// queued up. For example, PPRINT needs to see all same-schema
 			// records before printing any, since it needs to compute max width
 			// down columns.
-			err := recordWriter.Write(nil, bufferedOutputStream, outputIsStdout)
+			context := &recordAndContext.Context
+			err := recordWriter.Write(nil, context, bufferedOutputStream, outputIsStdout)
 			if err != nil {
 				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr: %v\n", err)
 				return true, true
diff --git a/pkg/output/file_output_handlers.go b/pkg/output/file_output_handlers.go
index d21cfb812..31f6b89a0 100644
--- a/pkg/output/file_output_handlers.go
+++ b/pkg/output/file_output_handlers.go
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ func NewPipeWriteOutputHandler(
 ) (*FileOutputHandler, error) {
 	writePipe, err := lib.OpenOutboundHalfPipe(commandString)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not launch command \"%s\" for pipe-to.", commandString)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf(`could not launch command "%s" for pipe-to`, commandString)
 	}
 
 	return newOutputHandlerCommon(
@@ -399,13 +399,11 @@ func (handler *FileOutputHandler) Close() (retval error) {
 		done := false
 		for !done {
 			select {
-			case _ = <-handler.recordErroredChannel:
+			case <-handler.recordErroredChannel:
 				done = true
 				retval = errors.New("exiting due to data error") // details already printed
-				break
-			case _ = <-handler.recordDoneChannel:
+			case <-handler.recordDoneChannel:
 				done = true
-				break
 			}
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer.go b/pkg/output/record_writer.go
index 3ce49743d..e3c224667 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer.go
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ package output
 import (
 	"bufio"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // IRecordWriter is the abstract interface for all record-writers.  They are
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ import (
 type IRecordWriter interface {
 	Write(
 		outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+		context *types.Context,
 		bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 		outputIsStdout bool,
 	) error
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_csv.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_csv.go
index b71af63d2..ca51cd325 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_csv.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_csv.go
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 
-	csv "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/go-csv"
+	csv "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/go-csv"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type RecordWriterCSV struct {
 	writerOptions     *cli.TWriterOptions
-	ofs0              byte // Go's CSV library only lets its 'Comma' be a single character
 	csvWriter         *csv.Writer
 	needToPrintHeader bool
 	firstRecordKeys   []string
@@ -41,11 +41,12 @@ func NewRecordWriterCSV(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (*RecordWriterCSV, er
 
 func (writer *RecordWriterCSV) Write(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	_ *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) error {
-	// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 	if outrec == nil {
+		// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_csv_colorizer.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_csv_colorizer.go
index 9cb103b6a..a9efd0b30 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_csv_colorizer.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_csv_colorizer.go
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
 )
 
 var errInvalidDelim = errors.New("csv: invalid field or comment delimiter")
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_csvlite.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_csvlite.go
index c59556b30..ac36a8270 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_csvlite.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_csvlite.go
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ import (
 	"bufio"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type RecordWriterCSVLite struct {
@@ -27,11 +28,12 @@ func NewRecordWriterCSVLite(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (*RecordWriterCSV
 
 func (writer *RecordWriterCSVLite) Write(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	_ *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) error {
-	// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 	if outrec == nil {
+		// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_dkvp.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_dkvp.go
index d27420ede..692fa9480 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_dkvp.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_dkvp.go
@@ -3,9 +3,10 @@ package output
 import (
 	"bufio"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type RecordWriterDKVP struct {
@@ -20,11 +21,12 @@ func NewRecordWriterDKVP(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (*RecordWriterDKVP,
 
 func (writer *RecordWriterDKVP) Write(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	_ *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) error {
-	// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 	if outrec == nil {
+		// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_factory.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_factory.go
index ae7941490..bb6aba5fa 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_factory.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_factory.go
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ package output
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
 )
 
 func Create(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (IRecordWriter, error) {
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ func Create(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (IRecordWriter, error) {
 		return NewRecordWriterDKVP(writerOptions)
 	case "json":
 		return NewRecordWriterJSON(writerOptions)
+	case "jsonl":
+		return NewRecordWriterJSONLines(writerOptions)
 	case "md":
 		return NewRecordWriterMarkdown(writerOptions)
 	case "markdown":
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_json.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_json_jsonl.go
similarity index 64%
rename from pkg/output/record_writer_json.go
rename to pkg/output/record_writer_json_jsonl.go
index e832f169e..8c43d43ff 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_json.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_json_jsonl.go
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ type RecordWriterJSON struct {
 	jvQuoteAll     bool
 
 	// State:
-	onFirst bool
+	wroteAnyRecords bool
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -27,16 +28,30 @@ func NewRecordWriterJSON(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (*RecordWriterJSON,
 		jsonFormatting = mlrval.JSON_MULTILINE
 	}
 	return &RecordWriterJSON{
-		writerOptions:  writerOptions,
-		jsonFormatting: jsonFormatting,
-		jvQuoteAll:     writerOptions.JVQuoteAll,
-		onFirst:        true,
+		writerOptions:   writerOptions,
+		jsonFormatting:  jsonFormatting,
+		jvQuoteAll:      writerOptions.JVQuoteAll,
+		wroteAnyRecords: false,
+	}, nil
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------
+func NewRecordWriterJSONLines(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (*RecordWriterJSON, error) {
+	wopt := *writerOptions
+	wopt.WrapJSONOutputInOuterList = false
+	wopt.JSONOutputMultiline = false
+	return &RecordWriterJSON{
+		writerOptions:   &wopt,
+		jsonFormatting:  mlrval.JSON_SINGLE_LINE,
+		jvQuoteAll:      writerOptions.JVQuoteAll,
+		wroteAnyRecords: false,
 	}, nil
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 func (writer *RecordWriterJSON) Write(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	context *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) error {
@@ -45,9 +60,9 @@ func (writer *RecordWriterJSON) Write(
 	}
 
 	if writer.writerOptions.WrapJSONOutputInOuterList {
-		writer.writeWithListWrap(outrec, bufferedOutputStream, outputIsStdout)
+		writer.writeWithListWrap(outrec, context, bufferedOutputStream, outputIsStdout)
 	} else {
-		writer.writeWithoutListWrap(outrec, bufferedOutputStream, outputIsStdout)
+		writer.writeWithoutListWrap(outrec, context, bufferedOutputStream, outputIsStdout)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -55,11 +70,12 @@ func (writer *RecordWriterJSON) Write(
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 func (writer *RecordWriterJSON) writeWithListWrap(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	context *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) {
 	if outrec != nil { // Not end of record stream
-		if writer.onFirst {
+		if !writer.wroteAnyRecords {
 			bufferedOutputStream.WriteString("[\n")
 		}
 
@@ -71,25 +87,32 @@ func (writer *RecordWriterJSON) writeWithListWrap(
 			os.Exit(1)
 		}
 
-		if !writer.onFirst {
+		if writer.wroteAnyRecords {
 			bufferedOutputStream.WriteString(",\n")
 		}
 
 		bufferedOutputStream.WriteString(s)
 
-		writer.onFirst = false
+		writer.wroteAnyRecords = true
 
 	} else { // End of record stream
-		if writer.onFirst { // zero records in the entire output stream
-			bufferedOutputStream.WriteString("[")
+
+		if !writer.wroteAnyRecords {
+			if context.JSONHadBrackets {
+				bufferedOutputStream.WriteString("[")
+				bufferedOutputStream.WriteString("\n]\n")
+			}
+		} else {
+			bufferedOutputStream.WriteString("\n]\n")
 		}
-		bufferedOutputStream.WriteString("\n]\n")
+
 	}
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 func (writer *RecordWriterJSON) writeWithoutListWrap(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	_ *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) {
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_markdown.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_markdown.go
index 6c2983a59..b3b96089a 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_markdown.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_markdown.go
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ import (
 	"bufio"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type RecordWriterMarkdown struct {
 	writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions
-	ors           string
 
 	numHeaderLinesOutput int
 	lastJoinedHeader     string
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ func NewRecordWriterMarkdown(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (*RecordWriterMa
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 func (writer *RecordWriterMarkdown) Write(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	_ *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) error {
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_nidx.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_nidx.go
index 551fe47aa..45d01c45b 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_nidx.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_nidx.go
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ package output
 import (
 	"bufio"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type RecordWriterNIDX struct {
@@ -19,11 +20,12 @@ func NewRecordWriterNIDX(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (*RecordWriterNIDX,
 
 func (writer *RecordWriterNIDX) Write(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	_ *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) error {
-	// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 	if outrec == nil {
+		// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_pprint.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_pprint.go
index b9f48cd93..acb3366e2 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_pprint.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_pprint.go
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type RecordWriterPPRINT struct {
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ func NewRecordWriterPPRINT(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (*RecordWriterPPRI
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 func (writer *RecordWriterPPRINT) Write(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	_ *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) error {
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_tsv.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_tsv.go
index 2a79793b2..17f1ce563 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_tsv.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_tsv.go
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type RecordWriterTSV struct {
@@ -35,11 +36,12 @@ func NewRecordWriterTSV(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (*RecordWriterTSV, er
 
 func (writer *RecordWriterTSV) Write(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	_ *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) error {
-	// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 	if outrec == nil {
+		// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/output/record_writer_xtab.go b/pkg/output/record_writer_xtab.go
index 27f3b1bcb..5d1b52fa0 100644
--- a/pkg/output/record_writer_xtab.go
+++ b/pkg/output/record_writer_xtab.go
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -43,11 +44,12 @@ func NewRecordWriterXTAB(writerOptions *cli.TWriterOptions) (*RecordWriterXTAB,
 
 func (writer *RecordWriterXTAB) Write(
 	outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap,
+	_ *types.Context,
 	bufferedOutputStream *bufio.Writer,
 	outputIsStdout bool,
 ) error {
-	// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 	if outrec == nil {
+		// End of record stream: nothing special for this output format
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/parsing/errors.go.template b/pkg/parsing/errors.go.template
index 5c39ede1d..11d8a4539 100644
--- a/pkg/parsing/errors.go.template
+++ b/pkg/parsing/errors.go.template
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
 )
 
 type ErrorSymbol interface {
diff --git a/pkg/parsing/errors/errors.go b/pkg/parsing/errors/errors.go
index 5c39ede1d..11d8a4539 100644
--- a/pkg/parsing/errors/errors.go
+++ b/pkg/parsing/errors/errors.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
 )
 
 type ErrorSymbol interface {
diff --git a/pkg/parsing/lexer/acttab.go b/pkg/parsing/lexer/acttab.go
index 18917879f..b8150ad23 100644
--- a/pkg/parsing/lexer/acttab.go
+++ b/pkg/parsing/lexer/acttab.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ package lexer
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
 )
 
 type ActionTable [NumStates]ActionRow
diff --git a/pkg/parsing/lexer/lexer.go b/pkg/parsing/lexer/lexer.go
index d106a08a3..74ac942b1 100644
--- a/pkg/parsing/lexer/lexer.go
+++ b/pkg/parsing/lexer/lexer.go
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
 )
 
 const (
diff --git a/pkg/parsing/mlr.bnf b/pkg/parsing/mlr.bnf
index 39d6c0c3b..bd9602f81 100644
--- a/pkg/parsing/mlr.bnf
+++ b/pkg/parsing/mlr.bnf
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 // GRAMMAR FOR THE MILLER DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGE
 //
 // This is the Miller DSL's BNF grammar, using the awesome GOCC tool framework
-// from https://github.com/goccmack/gocc.
+// from https://github.com/goccmack/gocc (forked at https://github.com/johnkerl/gocc).
 //
 // The first section is lexical elements and the second section is syntactical
 // elements. These are the analogs of lex and yacc, respectively, using a
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ panic : '%' '%' '%' 'p' 'a' 'n' 'i' 'c' '%' '%' '%' ;
 // ================================================================
 
 // Import the AST/ASTNode types and functions
-<< import "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl" >>
+<< import "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl" >>
 
 // ================================================================
 // TOP-LEVEL PRODUCTION RULE FOR THE MILLER DSL
diff --git a/pkg/parsing/parser/parser.go b/pkg/parsing/parser/parser.go
index 444e9f495..b984087af 100644
--- a/pkg/parsing/parser/parser.go
+++ b/pkg/parsing/parser/parser.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 
-	parseError "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/errors"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/parsing/token"
+	parseError "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/errors"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/parsing/token"
 )
 
 const (
diff --git a/pkg/parsing/parser/productionstable.go b/pkg/parsing/parser/productionstable.go
index f4b61fd50..93ea03996 100644
--- a/pkg/parsing/parser/productionstable.go
+++ b/pkg/parsing/parser/productionstable.go
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 package parser
 
-import "github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
+import "github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
 
 type (
 	ProdTab      [numProductions]ProdTabEntry
diff --git a/pkg/parsing/token/token.go b/pkg/parsing/token/token.go
index 50282b2c3..69fe0404c 100644
--- a/pkg/parsing/token/token.go
+++ b/pkg/parsing/token/token.go
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ func (t *Token) Int64Value() (int64, error) {
 func (t *Token) UTF8Rune() (rune, error) {
 	r, _ := utf8.DecodeRune(t.Lit)
 	if r == utf8.RuneError {
-		err := fmt.Errorf("Invalid rune")
+		err := fmt.Errorf("invalid rune")
 		return r, err
 	}
 	return r, nil
diff --git a/pkg/platform/getargs_windows.go b/pkg/platform/getargs_windows.go
index 4349e4346..7a2f1af3d 100644
--- a/pkg/platform/getargs_windows.go
+++ b/pkg/platform/getargs_windows.go
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ func GetArgs() []string {
 	//printArgs(retargs, "NEW")
 
 	globbed := make([]string, 0)
-	for i, _ := range retargs {
+	for i := range retargs {
 		// Expand things like *.csv
 		matches, err := filepath.Glob(retargs[i])
 		if matches != nil && err == nil {
diff --git a/pkg/runtime/stack.go b/pkg/runtime/stack.go
index b32cd06dd..a71f83379 100644
--- a/pkg/runtime/stack.go
+++ b/pkg/runtime/stack.go
@@ -26,12 +26,11 @@
 package runtime
 
 import (
-	"container/list"
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -68,7 +67,7 @@ func (sv *StackVariable) GetName() string {
 
 type Stack struct {
 	// list of *StackFrameSet
-	stackFrameSets *list.List
+	stackFrameSets []*StackFrameSet
 
 	// Invariant: equal to the head of the stackFrameSets list. This is cached
 	// since all sets/gets in between frameset-push and frameset-pop will all
@@ -77,9 +76,9 @@ type Stack struct {
 }
 
 func NewStack() *Stack {
-	stackFrameSets := list.New()
+	stackFrameSets := make([]*StackFrameSet, 1)
 	head := newStackFrameSet()
-	stackFrameSets.PushFront(head)
+	stackFrameSets[0] = head
 	return &Stack{
 		stackFrameSets: stackFrameSets,
 		head:           head,
@@ -89,13 +88,13 @@ func NewStack() *Stack {
 // For when a user-defined function/subroutine is being entered
 func (stack *Stack) PushStackFrameSet() {
 	stack.head = newStackFrameSet()
-	stack.stackFrameSets.PushFront(stack.head)
+	stack.stackFrameSets = append([]*StackFrameSet{stack.head}, stack.stackFrameSets...)
 }
 
 // For when a user-defined function/subroutine is being exited
 func (stack *Stack) PopStackFrameSet() {
-	stack.stackFrameSets.Remove(stack.stackFrameSets.Front())
-	stack.head = stack.stackFrameSets.Front().Value.(*StackFrameSet)
+	stack.stackFrameSets = stack.stackFrameSets[1:]
+	stack.head = stack.stackFrameSets[0]
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -180,9 +179,8 @@ func (stack *Stack) UnsetIndexed(
 }
 
 func (stack *Stack) Dump() {
-	fmt.Printf("STACK FRAMESETS (count %d):\n", stack.stackFrameSets.Len())
-	for entry := stack.stackFrameSets.Front(); entry != nil; entry = entry.Next() {
-		stackFrameSet := entry.Value.(*StackFrameSet)
+	fmt.Printf("STACK FRAMESETS (count %d):\n", len(stack.stackFrameSets))
+	for _, stackFrameSet := range stack.stackFrameSets {
 		stackFrameSet.dump()
 	}
 }
@@ -407,7 +405,7 @@ func (frame *StackFrame) defineTyped(
 		return nil
 	} else {
 		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"%s: variable %s has already been defined in the same scope.",
+			"%s: variable %s has already been defined in the same scope",
 			"mlr", stackVariable.name,
 		)
 	}
@@ -429,7 +427,7 @@ func (frame *StackFrame) setIndexed(
 			return frame.set(stackVariable, newval)
 		} else {
 			return fmt.Errorf(
-				"%s: map indices must be int or string; got %s.\n",
+				"%s: map indices must be int or string; got %s",
 				"mlr", leadingIndex.GetTypeName(),
 			)
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/runtime/state.go b/pkg/runtime/state.go
index cfd9e11a7..3fe93aa18 100644
--- a/pkg/runtime/state.go
+++ b/pkg/runtime/state.go
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ package runtime
 import (
 	"container/list"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type State struct {
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ type State struct {
 	// This is necessary for the stateful semantics of `=~` and "\1", "\2", etc.
 	// Those are avoided when the user calls `matchx`, which is newer, and
 	// stateless. However, `=~` exists in the Miller DSL and we must support it.
-	regexCapturesByFrame *list.List // list of []string
+	regexCapturesByFrame [][]string
 
 	Options *cli.TOptions
 
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ type State struct {
 func NewEmptyState(options *cli.TOptions, strictMode bool) *State {
 
 	// See lib.MakeEmptyCaptures for context.
-	regexCapturesByFrame := list.New()
-	regexCapturesByFrame.PushFront(lib.MakeEmptyCaptures())
+	regexCapturesByFrame := make([][]string, 1)
+	regexCapturesByFrame[0] = lib.MakeEmptyCaptures()
 
 	oosvars := mlrval.NewMlrmap()
 	return &State{
@@ -72,25 +72,24 @@ func (state *State) Update(
 ) {
 	state.Inrec = inrec
 	state.Context = context
-	state.regexCapturesByFrame.Front().Value = lib.MakeEmptyCaptures()
+	state.regexCapturesByFrame[0] = lib.MakeEmptyCaptures()
 }
 
 func (state *State) SetRegexCaptures(
 	captures []string,
 ) {
-	state.regexCapturesByFrame.Front().Value = lib.CopyStringArray(captures)
+	state.regexCapturesByFrame[0] = lib.CopyStringArray(captures)
 }
 
 func (state *State) GetRegexCaptures() []string {
-	regexCaptures := state.regexCapturesByFrame.Front().Value.([]string)
+	regexCaptures := state.regexCapturesByFrame[0]
 	return lib.CopyStringArray(regexCaptures)
 }
 
 func (state *State) PushRegexCapturesFrame() {
-	state.regexCapturesByFrame.PushFront(lib.MakeEmptyCaptures())
+	state.regexCapturesByFrame = append([][]string{lib.MakeEmptyCaptures()}, state.regexCapturesByFrame...)
 }
 
 func (state *State) PopRegexCapturesFrame() {
-	// There is no PopFront
-	state.regexCapturesByFrame.Remove(state.regexCapturesByFrame.Front())
+	state.regexCapturesByFrame = state.regexCapturesByFrame[1:]
 }
diff --git a/pkg/scan/find_benchmark_test.go b/pkg/scan/find_benchmark_test.go
index e905bb735..ee3d2b744 100644
--- a/pkg/scan/find_benchmark_test.go
+++ b/pkg/scan/find_benchmark_test.go
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 )
 
-// go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/scan/...
+// go test -run=nonesuch -bench=. github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/scan/...
 
 func BenchmarkFromNormalCases(b *testing.B) {
 
diff --git a/pkg/stream/stream.go b/pkg/stream/stream.go
index 9f2cbe805..1aafe95c9 100644
--- a/pkg/stream/stream.go
+++ b/pkg/stream/stream.go
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"io"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // Since Go is concurrent, the context struct (AWK-like variables such as
@@ -95,13 +95,10 @@ func Stream(
 		select {
 		case ierr := <-inputErrorChannel:
 			retval = ierr
-			break
-		case _ = <-dataProcessingErrorChannel:
+		case <-dataProcessingErrorChannel:
 			retval = errors.New("exiting due to data error") // details already printed
-			break
-		case _ = <-doneWritingChannel:
+		case <-doneWritingChannel:
 			done = true
-			break
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/terminals/help/entry.go b/pkg/terminals/help/entry.go
index 4666adfa9..47d3f6e9d 100644
--- a/pkg/terminals/help/entry.go
+++ b/pkg/terminals/help/entry.go
@@ -10,14 +10,14 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/mattn/go-isatty"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/auxents"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl/cst"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/auxents"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl/cst"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
diff --git a/pkg/terminals/regtest/invoker.go b/pkg/terminals/regtest/invoker.go
index febbbbfa3..7f58d7d9e 100644
--- a/pkg/terminals/regtest/invoker.go
+++ b/pkg/terminals/regtest/invoker.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/platform"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/platform"
 )
 
 // RunMillerCommand runs a string like 'mlr cat foo.dat', with specified mlr
diff --git a/pkg/terminals/regtest/regtester.go b/pkg/terminals/regtest/regtester.go
index 8b5231c8e..749002b89 100644
--- a/pkg/terminals/regtest/regtester.go
+++ b/pkg/terminals/regtest/regtester.go
@@ -56,15 +56,14 @@
 package regtest
 
 import (
-	"container/list"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"runtime"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 const CmdName = "cmd"
@@ -110,8 +109,8 @@ type RegTester struct {
 	casePassCount      int
 	caseFailCount      int
 
-	failDirNames      *list.List
-	failCaseNames     *list.List
+	failDirNames      []string
+	failCaseNames     []string
 	firstNFailsToShow int
 }
 
@@ -132,8 +131,8 @@ func NewRegTester(
 		directoryFailCount: 0,
 		casePassCount:      0,
 		caseFailCount:      0,
-		failDirNames:       list.New(),
-		failCaseNames:      list.New(),
+		failDirNames:       make([]string, 0),
+		failCaseNames:      make([]string, 0),
 		firstNFailsToShow:  firstNFailsToShow,
 	}
 }
@@ -182,13 +181,13 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) Execute(
 		regtester.executeSinglePath(path)
 	}
 
-	if regtester.failCaseNames.Len() > 0 && regtester.firstNFailsToShow > 0 {
+	if len(regtester.failCaseNames) > 0 && regtester.firstNFailsToShow > 0 {
 		fmt.Println()
 		fmt.Println("RERUNS OF FIRST FAILED CASE FILES:")
 		verbosityLevel := 3
 		i := 0
-		for e := regtester.failCaseNames.Front(); e != nil; e = e.Next() {
-			regtester.executeSingleCmdFile(e.Value.(string), verbosityLevel)
+		for _, e := range regtester.failCaseNames {
+			regtester.executeSingleCmdFile(e, verbosityLevel)
 			i++
 			if i >= regtester.firstNFailsToShow {
 				break
@@ -196,11 +195,11 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) Execute(
 		}
 	}
 
-	if !regtester.plainMode && regtester.failDirNames.Len() > 0 {
+	if !regtester.plainMode && len(regtester.failDirNames) > 0 {
 		fmt.Println()
 		fmt.Println("FAILED CASE DIRECTORIES:")
-		for e := regtester.failDirNames.Front(); e != nil; e = e.Next() {
-			fmt.Printf("  %s/\n", e.Value.(string))
+		for _, e := range regtester.failDirNames {
+			fmt.Printf("  %s/\n", e)
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -248,7 +247,7 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) executeSinglePath(
 				regtester.directoryPassCount++
 			} else {
 				regtester.directoryFailCount++
-				regtester.failDirNames.PushBack(path)
+				regtester.failDirNames = append(regtester.failDirNames, path)
 			}
 		}
 		return passed
@@ -260,7 +259,7 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) executeSinglePath(
 				regtester.casePassCount++
 			} else {
 				regtester.caseFailCount++
-				regtester.failCaseNames.PushBack(path)
+				regtester.failCaseNames = append(regtester.failCaseNames, path)
 			}
 			return passed
 		}
@@ -478,8 +477,7 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) executeSingleCmdFile(
 
 	// Copy any files requested by the test. (Most don't; some do, e.g. those
 	// which test the write-in-place logic of mlr -I.)
-	for pe := preCopySrcDestPairs.Front(); pe != nil; pe = pe.Next() {
-		pair := pe.Value.(stringPair)
+	for _, pair := range preCopySrcDestPairs {
 		src := pair.first
 		dst := pair.second
 		if verbosityLevel >= 3 {
@@ -564,8 +562,7 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) executeSingleCmdFile(
 			}
 		}
 
-		for pe := postCompareExpectedActualPairs.Front(); pe != nil; pe = pe.Next() {
-			pair := pe.Value.(stringPair)
+		for _, pair := range postCompareExpectedActualPairs {
 			expectedFileName := pair.first
 			actualFileName := pair.second
 
@@ -686,8 +683,7 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) executeSingleCmdFile(
 		// Compare any additional output files. Most test cases don't have
 		// these (just stdout/stderr), but some do: for example, those which
 		// test the tee verb/function.
-		for pe := postCompareExpectedActualPairs.Front(); pe != nil; pe = pe.Next() {
-			pair := pe.Value.(stringPair)
+		for _, pair := range postCompareExpectedActualPairs {
 			expectedFileName := pair.first
 			actualFileName := pair.second
 			ok, expectedContents, actualContents, err := regtester.compareFiles(expectedFileName, actualFileName, caseDir)
@@ -725,8 +721,7 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) executeSingleCmdFile(
 		}
 
 		// Clean up any requested file-copies so that we're git-clean after the regression-test run.
-		for pe := preCopySrcDestPairs.Front(); pe != nil; pe = pe.Next() {
-			pair := pe.Value.(stringPair)
+		for _, pair := range preCopySrcDestPairs {
 			dst := pair.second
 			os.Remove(dst)
 			if verbosityLevel >= 3 {
@@ -735,8 +730,7 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) executeSingleCmdFile(
 		}
 
 		// Clean up any extra output files so that we're git-clean after the regression-test run.
-		for pe := postCompareExpectedActualPairs.Front(); pe != nil; pe = pe.Next() {
-			pair := pe.Value.(stringPair)
+		for _, pair := range postCompareExpectedActualPairs {
 			actualFileName := pair.second
 			os.Remove(actualFileName)
 			if verbosityLevel >= 3 {
@@ -855,7 +849,7 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) loadEnvFile(
 		fields := strings.SplitN(line, "=", 2)
 		if len(fields) != 2 {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: could not parse line \"%s\" from file \"%s\".\n",
+				`mlr: could not parse line "%s" from file "%s"`,
 				line, filename,
 			)
 		}
@@ -868,12 +862,13 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) loadEnvFile(
 func (regtester *RegTester) loadStringPairFile(
 	filename string,
 	caseDir string,
-) (*list.List, error) {
+) ([]stringPair, error) {
+	pairs := make([]stringPair, 0)
 	// If the file doesn't exist that's the normal case -- most cases do not
 	// have a .precopy or .postcmp file.
 	_, err := os.Stat(filename)
 	if os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		return list.New(), nil
+		return pairs, nil
 	}
 
 	// If the file does exist and isn't loadable, that's an error.
@@ -882,7 +877,7 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) loadStringPairFile(
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	pairs := list.New()
+	pairs = make([]stringPair, 0)
 	lines := strings.Split(contents, "\n")
 	for _, line := range lines {
 		line = strings.TrimSuffix(line, "\r")
@@ -892,12 +887,12 @@ func (regtester *RegTester) loadStringPairFile(
 		fields := strings.SplitN(line, " ", 2) // TODO: split on multi-space
 		if len(fields) != 2 {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr: could not parse line \"%s\" from file \"%s\".\n",
+				`mlr: could not parse line "%s" from file "%s"`,
 				line, filename,
 			)
 		}
 		pair := stringPair{first: fields[0], second: fields[1]}
-		pairs.PushBack(pair)
+		pairs = append(pairs, pair)
 	}
 	return pairs, nil
 }
diff --git a/pkg/terminals/repl/dsl.go b/pkg/terminals/repl/dsl.go
index 8f3a2a046..78f3b98bb 100644
--- a/pkg/terminals/repl/dsl.go
+++ b/pkg/terminals/repl/dsl.go
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl/cst"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl/cst"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/terminals/repl/entry.go b/pkg/terminals/repl/entry.go
index d2403ccdf..95d01f385 100644
--- a/pkg/terminals/repl/entry.go
+++ b/pkg/terminals/repl/entry.go
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import (
 	"path"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ func ReplMain(args []string) int {
 	// --auto-flatten is on by default. But if input and output formats are both JSON,
 	// then we don't need to actually do anything. See also mlrcli_parse.go.
 	options.WriterOptions.AutoFlatten = cli.DecideFinalFlatten(&options.WriterOptions)
-	options.WriterOptions.AutoUnflatten = cli.DecideFinalUnflatten(options)
+	options.WriterOptions.AutoUnflatten = cli.DecideFinalUnflatten(options, [][]string{})
 
 	recordOutputFileName := "(stdout)"
 	recordOutputStream := os.Stdout
diff --git a/pkg/terminals/repl/prompt.go b/pkg/terminals/repl/prompt.go
index bfcb46d2c..be2de0e10 100644
--- a/pkg/terminals/repl/prompt.go
+++ b/pkg/terminals/repl/prompt.go
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ import (
 
 	"golang.org/x/term"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/version"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/version"
 )
 
 const ENV_PRIMARY_PROMPT = "MLR_REPL_PS1"
diff --git a/pkg/terminals/repl/session.go b/pkg/terminals/repl/session.go
index 03ef0f6b4..2f25beb31 100644
--- a/pkg/terminals/repl/session.go
+++ b/pkg/terminals/repl/session.go
@@ -25,14 +25,14 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl/cst"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl/cst"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ func (repl *Repl) handleSession(istream *os.File) error {
 		doneDraining := false
 		for {
 			select {
-			case _ = <-repl.appSignalNotificationChannel:
+			case <-repl.appSignalNotificationChannel:
 				line = "" // Ignore any partially-entered line -- a ^C should do that
 			default:
 				doneDraining = true
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ func (repl *Repl) closeBufferedOutputStream() error {
 	if repl.recordOutputStream != os.Stdout {
 		err := repl.recordOutputStream.Close()
 		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("mlr repl: error on redirect close of %s: %v\n",
+			return fmt.Errorf("mlr repl: error on redirect close of %s: %v",
 				repl.recordOutputFileName, err,
 			)
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/terminals/repl/types.go b/pkg/terminals/repl/types.go
index b0da1b9d3..76f8507f0 100644
--- a/pkg/terminals/repl/types.go
+++ b/pkg/terminals/repl/types.go
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ import (
 	"container/list"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl/cst"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl/cst"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
 )
 
 // ================================================================
diff --git a/pkg/terminals/repl/verbs.go b/pkg/terminals/repl/verbs.go
index 92d9046ff..c2b992746 100644
--- a/pkg/terminals/repl/verbs.go
+++ b/pkg/terminals/repl/verbs.go
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl/cst"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl/cst"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -442,11 +442,8 @@ func handleSkipOrProcessN(repl *Repl, n int64, processingNotSkipping bool) {
 	for i := int64(1); i <= n; i++ {
 		select {
 		case recordsAndContexts = <-repl.readerChannel:
-			break
 		case err = <-repl.errorChannel:
-			break
-		case _ = <-repl.appSignalNotificationChannel: // user typed control-C
-			break
+		case <-repl.appSignalNotificationChannel: // user typed control-C
 		}
 
 		if err != nil {
@@ -505,13 +502,11 @@ func handleSkipOrProcessUntil(repl *Repl, dslString string, processingNotSkippin
 		doubleBreak := false
 		select {
 		case recordsAndContexts = <-repl.readerChannel:
-			break
 		case err = <-repl.errorChannel:
-			break
-		case _ = <-repl.appSignalNotificationChannel: // user typed control-C
+		case <-repl.appSignalNotificationChannel: // user typed control-C
 			doubleBreak = true
-			break
 		}
+
 		if doubleBreak {
 			break
 		}
@@ -566,7 +561,7 @@ func skipOrProcessRecord(
 	repl.runtimeState.Update(recordAndContext.Record, &recordAndContext.Context)
 
 	// End-of-stream marker
-	if recordAndContext.EndOfStream == true {
+	if recordAndContext.EndOfStream {
 		fmt.Println("End of record stream")
 		repl.readerChannel = nil
 		repl.errorChannel = nil
@@ -639,7 +634,8 @@ func writeRecord(repl *Repl, outrec *mlrval.Mlrmap) {
 			outrec.Unflatten(repl.options.WriterOptions.FLATSEP)
 		}
 	}
-	repl.recordWriter.Write(outrec, repl.bufferedRecordOutputStream, true /*outputIsStdout*/)
+	// XXX TEMP
+	repl.recordWriter.Write(outrec, nil, repl.bufferedRecordOutputStream, true /*outputIsStdout*/)
 	repl.bufferedRecordOutputStream.Flush()
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/terminals/terminals.go b/pkg/terminals/terminals.go
index 78ec0dd3f..9e11e1e71 100644
--- a/pkg/terminals/terminals.go
+++ b/pkg/terminals/terminals.go
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/terminals/help"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/terminals/regtest"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/terminals/repl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/version"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/terminals/help"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/terminals/regtest"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/terminals/repl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/version"
 )
 
 // tTerminalMain is a function-pointer type for the entrypoint handler for a given terminal,
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/aaa_chain_transformer.go b/pkg/transformers/aaa_chain_transformer.go
index e367ab883..a4137b763 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/aaa_chain_transformer.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/aaa_chain_transformer.go
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ package transformers
 import (
 	"container/list"
 	"fmt"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 	"os"
 )
 
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ func runSingleTransformerBatch(
 		// the output channel without involving the record-transformer, since
 		// there is no record to be transformed.
 
-		if inputRecordAndContext.EndOfStream == true || inputRecordAndContext.Record != nil {
+		if inputRecordAndContext.EndOfStream || inputRecordAndContext.Record != nil {
 			recordTransformer.Transform(
 				inputRecordAndContext,
 				outputRecordsAndContexts,
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/aaa_record_transformer.go b/pkg/transformers/aaa_record_transformer.go
index 1be4fc917..516a11a31 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/aaa_record_transformer.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/aaa_record_transformer.go
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ import (
 	"container/list"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // IRecordTransformer is the interface satisfied by all transformers, i.e.,
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/aaa_transformer_table.go b/pkg/transformers/aaa_transformer_table.go
index ed98af07f..b1a41ae17 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/aaa_transformer_table.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/aaa_transformer_table.go
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/colorizer"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/colorizer"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ var TRANSFORMER_LOOKUP_TABLE = []TransformerSetup{
 	SkipTrivialRecordsSetup,
 	SortSetup,
 	SortWithinRecordsSetup,
+	SparsifySetup,
 	SplitSetup,
 	SsubSetup,
 	Stats1Setup,
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ var TRANSFORMER_LOOKUP_TABLE = []TransformerSetup{
 	StepSetup,
 	SubSetup,
 	SummarySetup,
+	SurvSetup,
 	TacSetup,
 	TailSetup,
 	TeeSetup,
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/altkv.go b/pkg/transformers/altkv.go
index a97c3127e..cb1d5c8d2 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/altkv.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/altkv.go
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/bar.go b/pkg/transformers/bar.go
index 0aaafd8f1..09713c272 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/bar.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/bar.go
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 const barDefaultFillString = "*"
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/bootstrap.go b/pkg/transformers/bootstrap.go
index 9450a425e..47a200499 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/bootstrap.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/bootstrap.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/case.go b/pkg/transformers/case.go
index 4d02617c4..1020876e4 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/case.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/case.go
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ import (
 	"golang.org/x/text/cases"
 	"golang.org/x/text/language"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ func NewTransformerCase(
 		tr.caserFunc = cases.Title(language.Und).String
 	default:
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-			"mlr %s: case option must be specified using one of -u, -l, -s, -t.",
+			"mlr %s: case option must be specified using one of -u, -l, -s, -t",
 			verbNameCase,
 		)
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/cat.go b/pkg/transformers/cat.go
index c065aa536..74df80eca 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/cat.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/cat.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/check.go b/pkg/transformers/check.go
index 9f3600190..ed68d0afa 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/check.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/check.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/clean_whitespace.go b/pkg/transformers/clean_whitespace.go
index 3ffdd3862..bdb032f66 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/clean_whitespace.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/clean_whitespace.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/count.go b/pkg/transformers/count.go
index 623855ac9..107dbec6d 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/count.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/count.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/count_similar.go b/pkg/transformers/count_similar.go
index 2fafe2d70..b8c0a1819 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/count_similar.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/count_similar.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/cut.go b/pkg/transformers/cut.go
index f3039f65a..e9e57d438 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/cut.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/cut.go
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
 package transformers
 
 import (
+	"cmp"
 	"container/list"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"regexp"
+	"slices"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ func transformerCutUsage(
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, " -r Treat field names as regular expressions. \"ab\", \"a.*b\" will\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "   match any field name containing the substring \"ab\" or matching\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "   \"a.*b\", respectively; anchors of the form \"^ab$\", \"^a.*b$\" may\n")
-	fmt.Fprintf(o, "   be used. The -o flag is ignored when -r is present.\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "   be used.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-h|--help Show this message.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Examples:\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "  %s %s -f hostname,status\n", "mlr", verbNameCut)
@@ -129,6 +131,7 @@ type TransformerCut struct {
 	fieldNameSet  map[string]bool
 
 	doComplement bool
+	doArgOrder   bool
 	regexes      []*regexp.Regexp
 
 	recordTransformerFunc RecordTransformerFunc
@@ -143,6 +146,8 @@ func NewTransformerCut(
 
 	tr := &TransformerCut{}
 
+	tr.doArgOrder = doArgOrder
+
 	if !doRegexes {
 		tr.fieldNameList = fieldNames
 		tr.fieldNameSet = lib.StringListToSet(fieldNames)
@@ -257,6 +262,11 @@ func (tr *TransformerCut) exclude(
 	outputRecordsAndContexts.PushBack(inrecAndContext)
 }
 
+type entryIndex struct {
+	index int
+	entry *mlrval.MlrmapEntry
+}
+
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 func (tr *TransformerCut) processWithRegexes(
 	inrecAndContext *types.RecordAndContext,
@@ -267,11 +277,14 @@ func (tr *TransformerCut) processWithRegexes(
 	if !inrecAndContext.EndOfStream {
 		inrec := inrecAndContext.Record
 		newrec := mlrval.NewMlrmapAsRecord()
+		var entries []entryIndex
 		for pe := inrec.Head; pe != nil; pe = pe.Next {
 			matchesAny := false
-			for _, regex := range tr.regexes {
+			var index int
+			for i, regex := range tr.regexes {
 				if regex.MatchString(pe.Key) {
 					matchesAny = true
+					index = i
 					break
 				}
 			}
@@ -279,7 +292,19 @@ func (tr *TransformerCut) processWithRegexes(
 			if matchesAny != tr.doComplement {
 				// Pointer-motion is OK since the inrec is being hereby discarded.
 				// We're simply transferring ownership to the newrec.
-				newrec.PutReference(pe.Key, pe.Value)
+				if tr.doArgOrder {
+					entries = append(entries, entryIndex{index, pe})
+				} else {
+					newrec.PutReference(pe.Key, pe.Value)
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		if tr.doArgOrder {
+			slices.SortStableFunc(entries, func(a, b entryIndex) int {
+				return cmp.Compare(a.index, b.index)
+			})
+			for _, ei := range entries {
+				newrec.PutReference(ei.entry.Key, ei.entry.Value)
 			}
 		}
 		outputRecordsAndContexts.PushBack(types.NewRecordAndContext(newrec, &inrecAndContext.Context))
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/decimate.go b/pkg/transformers/decimate.go
index 8535c1d4b..112d9395e 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/decimate.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/decimate.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/fill_down.go b/pkg/transformers/fill_down.go
index b9ab079dc..cf779e336 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/fill_down.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/fill_down.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ func transformerFillDownParseCLI(
 type TransformerFillDown struct {
 	// input
 	fillDownFieldNames []string
-	doAll              bool
 	onlyIfAbsent       bool
 
 	// state
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/fill_empty.go b/pkg/transformers/fill_empty.go
index e893ef334..833ed5b12 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/fill_empty.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/fill_empty.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/flatten.go b/pkg/transformers/flatten.go
index a2f4d1a97..86c4c0fd1 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/flatten.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/flatten.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/format_values.go b/pkg/transformers/format_values.go
index d91041c27..edaf0389f 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/format_values.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/format_values.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/fraction.go b/pkg/transformers/fraction.go
index fb90ab2bf..432d600cf 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/fraction.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/fraction.go
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -264,9 +264,12 @@ func (tr *TransformerFraction) Transform(
 						} else {
 							numerator = value
 						}
-
 						denominator := sumsForGroup[fractionFieldName]
-						if !mlrval.Equals(value, tr.zero) {
+
+						// Return 0 for 0/n
+						if mlrval.Equals(numerator, tr.zero) {
+							outputValue = tr.zero
+						} else if !mlrval.Equals(denominator, tr.zero) {
 							outputValue = bifs.BIF_divide(numerator, denominator)
 							outputValue = bifs.BIF_times(outputValue, tr.multiplier)
 						} else {
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/gap.go b/pkg/transformers/gap.go
index 345780f4e..9bec0b2ab 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/gap.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/gap.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/grep.go b/pkg/transformers/grep.go
index 46d01244c..38942d650 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/grep.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/grep.go
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/group_by.go b/pkg/transformers/group_by.go
index f210969ad..bf5441cb5 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/group_by.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/group_by.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/group_like.go b/pkg/transformers/group_like.go
index a7ede9a59..73a7dc347 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/group_like.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/group_like.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/having_fields.go b/pkg/transformers/having_fields.go
index b17e6cecc..467c0a7d3 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/having_fields.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/having_fields.go
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type tHavingFieldsCriterion int
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/head.go b/pkg/transformers/head.go
index 4626ddead..6f7ff5a19 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/head.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/head.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/histogram.go b/pkg/transformers/histogram.go
index a7d6241fb..32f581107 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/histogram.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/histogram.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/join.go b/pkg/transformers/join.go
index deeea1623..61d8a47a5 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/join.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/join.go
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers/utils"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers/utils"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ func transformerJoinUsage(
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "expected to be headerless as well unless you put '--no-implicit-csv-header' after 'join'.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Please use \"%s --usage-separator-options\" for information on specifying separators.\n",
 		"mlr")
-	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs.html#join for more information\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs#join for more information\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "including examples.\n")
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/json_parse.go b/pkg/transformers/json_parse.go
index 1a00ccf08..0690b410e 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/json_parse.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/json_parse.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/json_stringify.go b/pkg/transformers/json_stringify.go
index ca515f0a0..c6b5642a8 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/json_stringify.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/json_stringify.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/label.go b/pkg/transformers/label.go
index b14be1b6d..3ad653595 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/label.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/label.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ func NewTransformerLabel(
 	for _, newName := range newNames {
 		_, ok := uniquenessChecker[newName]
 		if ok {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr label: labels must be unique; got duplicate \"%s\"\n", newName)
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf(`mlr label: labels must be unique; got duplicate "%s"`, newName)
 		}
 		uniquenessChecker[newName] = true
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/latin1_to_utf8.go b/pkg/transformers/latin1_to_utf8.go
index b3dca48b5..0dd509f39 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/latin1_to_utf8.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/latin1_to_utf8.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/merge_fields.go b/pkg/transformers/merge_fields.go
index 7ee2d9fad..f16a9d31e 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/merge_fields.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/merge_fields.go
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers/utils"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers/utils"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ func NewTransformerMergeFields(
 	for _, accumulatorName := range accumulatorNameList {
 		if !utils.ValidateStats1AccumulatorName(accumulatorName) {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr %s: accumulator \"%s\" not found.\n",
+				`mlr %s: accumulator "%s" not found`,
 				verbNameMergeFields, accumulatorName,
 			)
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/most_or_least_frequent.go b/pkg/transformers/most_or_least_frequent.go
index 1381e81d9..a47ba80dc 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/most_or_least_frequent.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/most_or_least_frequent.go
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/nest.go b/pkg/transformers/nest.go
index bced869df..31d58bf3e 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/nest.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/nest.go
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/nothing.go b/pkg/transformers/nothing.go
index 9c5b72f1a..b64688352 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/nothing.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/nothing.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/put_or_filter.go b/pkg/transformers/put_or_filter.go
index 1437c8b15..648595ce2 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/put_or_filter.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/put_or_filter.go
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/dsl/cst"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/runtime"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/dsl/cst"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/runtime"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -52,6 +52,14 @@ func transformerPutOrFilterUsage(
 	verb string,
 ) {
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Usage: %s %s [options] {DSL expression}\n", "mlr", verb)
+	if verb == "put" {
+		fmt.Fprintf(o, "Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically alter stream records.\n")
+	} else if verb == "filter" {
+		fmt.Fprintf(o, "Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically filter which\n")
+		fmt.Fprintf(o, "stream records will be output.\n")
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Options:\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o,
 		`-f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
@@ -65,7 +73,7 @@ func transformerPutOrFilterUsage(
 Since the expression pieces are simply concatenated, please be sure to use intervening
 semicolons to separate expressions.)
 
--s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have 
+-s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have
     Thus mlr put -s foo=97 '$column += @foo' is like
     mlr put 'begin {@foo = 97} $column += @foo'.
     The value part is subject to type-inferencing.
@@ -239,14 +247,28 @@ func transformerPutOrFilterParseCLI(
 		} else if opt == "-f" {
 			// Get a DSL string from the user-specified filename
 			filename := cli.VerbGetStringArgOrDie(verb, opt, args, &argi, argc)
-			theseDSLStrings, err := lib.LoadStringsFromFileOrDir(filename, ".mlr")
-			if err != nil {
-				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s %s: cannot load DSL expression from file \"%s\": ",
-					"mlr", verb, filename)
-				fmt.Println(err)
-				os.Exit(1)
+
+			// Miller has a two-pass command-line parser. If the user does
+			//   `mlr put -f foo.mlr`
+			// then that file can be parsed both times. But if the user does
+			//   `mlr put -f <( echo 'some expression goes here' )`
+			// that will read stdin. (The filename will come in as "dev/fd/63" or what have you.)
+			// But this file _cannot_ be read twice. So, if doConstruct==false -- we're
+			// on the first pass of the command-line parser -- don't bother to parse
+			// the DSL-contents file.
+			//
+			// See also https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues/1515
+
+			if doConstruct {
+				theseDSLStrings, err := lib.LoadStringsFromFileOrDir(filename, ".mlr")
+				if err != nil {
+					fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "%s %s: cannot load DSL expression from file \"%s\": ",
+						"mlr", verb, filename)
+					fmt.Println(err)
+					os.Exit(1)
+				}
+				dslStrings = append(dslStrings, theseDSLStrings...)
 			}
-			dslStrings = append(dslStrings, theseDSLStrings...)
 			haveDSLStringsHere = true
 
 		} else if opt == "-e" {
@@ -451,7 +473,7 @@ func NewTransformerPut(
 		for _, preset := range presets {
 			pair := strings.SplitN(preset, "=", 2)
 			if len(pair) != 2 {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing \"=\" in preset expression \"%s\".", preset)
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf(`missing "=" in preset expression "%s"`, preset)
 			}
 			key := pair[0]
 			svalue := pair[1]
@@ -520,7 +542,7 @@ func (tr *TransformerPut) Transform(
 
 		// If there were no input records then we never executed the
 		// begin-blocks. Do so now.
-		if tr.executedBeginBlocks == false {
+		if !tr.executedBeginBlocks {
 			err := tr.cstRootNode.ExecuteBeginBlocks(tr.runtimeState)
 			if err != nil {
 				fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/regularize.go b/pkg/transformers/regularize.go
index c75d261f0..d39ffbad8 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/regularize.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/regularize.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/remove_empty_columns.go b/pkg/transformers/remove_empty_columns.go
index ce9b5a5dc..3b6b74263 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/remove_empty_columns.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/remove_empty_columns.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/rename.go b/pkg/transformers/rename.go
index 7880b6ead..39f252827 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/rename.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/rename.go
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ func transformerRenameUsage(
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "           first-match replacement.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-h|--help Show this message.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Examples:\n")
-	fmt.Fprintf(o, "%s %s old_name,new_name'\n", exeName, verb)
-	fmt.Fprintf(o, "%s %s old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2'\n", exeName, verb)
-	fmt.Fprintf(o, "%s %s -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date,'  Rename all such fields to be \"Date\"\n", exeName, verb)
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "%s %s old_name,new_name\n", exeName, verb)
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "%s %s old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2\n", exeName, verb)
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "%s %s -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date'  Rename all such fields to be \"Date\"\n", exeName, verb)
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "%s %s -r '\"Date_[0-9]+\",Date' Same\n", exeName, verb)
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "%s %s -r 'Date_([0-9]+).*,\\1' Rename all such fields to be of the form 20151015\n", exeName, verb)
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "%s %s -r '\"name\"i,Name'       Rename \"name\", \"Name\", \"NAME\", etc. to \"Name\"\n", exeName, verb)
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/reorder.go b/pkg/transformers/reorder.go
index 141b55c19..44e915a80 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/reorder.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/reorder.go
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/repeat.go b/pkg/transformers/repeat.go
index eab1725f4..a9761415a 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/repeat.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/repeat.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 type tRepeatCountSource int
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/reshape.go b/pkg/transformers/reshape.go
index 4c0cffc07..1cc96f64f 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/reshape.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/reshape.go
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/sample.go b/pkg/transformers/sample.go
index b1eef576b..b8e798c65 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/sample.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/sample.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/sec2gmt.go b/pkg/transformers/sec2gmt.go
index 0dfbbe5df..33cbad387 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/sec2gmt.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/sec2gmt.go
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/sec2gmtdate.go b/pkg/transformers/sec2gmtdate.go
index d09defffa..ee440f607 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/sec2gmtdate.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/sec2gmtdate.go
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/seqgen.go b/pkg/transformers/seqgen.go
index 2d1c3b188..9d77e7173 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/seqgen.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/seqgen.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ func NewTransformerSeqgen(
 		if fstart == fstop {
 			doneComparator = bifs.BIF_equals
 		} else {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr seqgen: step must not be zero unless start == stop.")
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr seqgen: step must not be zero unless start == stop")
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -192,9 +192,7 @@ func (tr *TransformerSeqgen) Transform(
 		case b := <-inputDownstreamDoneChannel:
 			outputDownstreamDoneChannel <- b
 			keepGoing = false
-			break
 		default:
-			break
 		}
 		if !keepGoing {
 			break
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/shuffle.go b/pkg/transformers/shuffle.go
index 7aad23641..77659e5a8 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/shuffle.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/shuffle.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/skip_trivial_records.go b/pkg/transformers/skip_trivial_records.go
index 91c8bd242..4a0245edb 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/skip_trivial_records.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/skip_trivial_records.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/sort.go b/pkg/transformers/sort.go
index d28009ae4..6342192bb 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/sort.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/sort.go
@@ -48,10 +48,10 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ func transformerSortUsage(
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-nf {comma-separated field names}  Same as -n\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-nr {comma-separated field names}  Numerical descending; nulls sort first\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-t  {comma-separated field names}  Natural ascending\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-b                                 Move sort fields to start of record, as in reorder -b\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-tr|-rt {comma-separated field names}  Natural descending\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-h|--help Show this message.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "\n")
@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ func transformerSortParseCLI(
 
 	groupByFieldNames := make([]string, 0)
 	comparatorFuncs := make([]mlrval.CmpFuncInt, 0)
+	doMoveToHead := false
 
 	for argi < argc /* variable increment: 1 or 2 depending on flag */ {
 		opt := args[argi]
@@ -255,6 +257,9 @@ func transformerSortParseCLI(
 				comparatorFuncs = append(comparatorFuncs, mlrval.NumericDescendingComparator)
 			}
 
+		} else if opt == "-b" {
+			doMoveToHead = true
+
 		} else {
 			transformerSortUsage(os.Stderr)
 			os.Exit(1)
@@ -274,6 +279,7 @@ func transformerSortParseCLI(
 	transformer, err := NewTransformerSort(
 		groupByFieldNames,
 		comparatorFuncs,
+		doMoveToHead,
 	)
 	if err != nil {
 		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
@@ -304,6 +310,7 @@ type TransformerSort struct {
 	// -- Input
 	groupByFieldNames []string
 	comparatorFuncs   []mlrval.CmpFuncInt
+	doMoveToHead      bool
 
 	// -- State
 	// Map from string to *list.List:
@@ -316,11 +323,13 @@ type TransformerSort struct {
 func NewTransformerSort(
 	groupByFieldNames []string,
 	comparatorFuncs []mlrval.CmpFuncInt,
+	doMoveToHead bool,
 ) (*TransformerSort, error) {
 
 	tr := &TransformerSort{
 		groupByFieldNames: groupByFieldNames,
 		comparatorFuncs:   comparatorFuncs,
+		doMoveToHead:      doMoveToHead,
 
 		recordListsByGroup: lib.NewOrderedMap(),
 		groupHeads:         lib.NewOrderedMap(),
@@ -346,6 +355,13 @@ func (tr *TransformerSort) Transform(
 	if !inrecAndContext.EndOfStream {
 		inrec := inrecAndContext.Record
 
+		if tr.doMoveToHead {
+			n := len(tr.groupByFieldNames)
+			for i := n - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
+				inrec.MoveToHead(tr.groupByFieldNames[i])
+			}
+		}
+
 		groupingKey, selectedValues, ok := inrec.GetSelectedValuesAndJoined(
 			tr.groupByFieldNames,
 		)
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/sort_within_records.go b/pkg/transformers/sort_within_records.go
index 398ca5372..50ce51bc2 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/sort_within_records.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/sort_within_records.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/sparsify.go b/pkg/transformers/sparsify.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d6212a33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/transformers/sparsify.go
@@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
+package transformers
+
+import (
+	"container/list"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
+)
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------
+const verbNameSparsify = "sparsify"
+
+var SparsifySetup = TransformerSetup{
+	Verb:         verbNameSparsify,
+	UsageFunc:    transformerSparsifyUsage,
+	ParseCLIFunc: transformerSparsifyParseCLI,
+	IgnoresInput: false,
+}
+
+func transformerSparsifyUsage(
+	o *os.File,
+) {
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Usage: %s %s [options]\n", "mlr", verbNameSparsify)
+	fmt.Fprint(o,
+		`Unsets fields for which the key is the empty string (or, optionally, another
+specified value). Only makes sense with output format not being CSV or TSV.
+`)
+
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Options:\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-s {filler string} What values to remove. Defaults to the empty string.\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-f {a,b,c} Specify field names to be operated on; any other fields won't be\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "           modified. The default is to modify all fields.\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-h|--help  Show this message.\n")
+
+	fmt.Fprint(o,
+		`Example: if input is a=1,b=,c=3 then output is a=1,c=3.
+`)
+}
+
+func transformerSparsifyParseCLI(
+	pargi *int,
+	argc int,
+	args []string,
+	_ *cli.TOptions,
+	doConstruct bool, // false for first pass of CLI-parse, true for second pass
+) IRecordTransformer {
+
+	// Skip the verb name from the current spot in the mlr command line
+	argi := *pargi
+	verb := args[argi]
+	argi++
+
+	fillerString := ""
+	var specifiedFieldNames []string = nil
+
+	for argi < argc /* variable increment: 1 or 2 depending on flag */ {
+		opt := args[argi]
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(opt, "-") {
+			break // No more flag options to process
+		}
+		if args[argi] == "--" {
+			break // All transformers must do this so main-flags can follow verb-flags
+		}
+		argi++
+
+		if opt == "-h" || opt == "--help" {
+			transformerSparsifyUsage(os.Stdout)
+			os.Exit(0)
+
+		} else if opt == "-s" {
+			fillerString = cli.VerbGetStringArgOrDie(verb, opt, args, &argi, argc)
+
+		} else if opt == "-f" {
+			specifiedFieldNames = cli.VerbGetStringArrayArgOrDie(verb, opt, args, &argi, argc)
+
+		} else {
+			transformerSparsifyUsage(os.Stderr)
+			os.Exit(1)
+		}
+	}
+
+	*pargi = argi
+	if !doConstruct { // All transformers must do this for main command-line parsing
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	transformer, err := NewTransformerSparsify(
+		fillerString,
+		specifiedFieldNames,
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	return transformer
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------
+type TransformerSparsify struct {
+	fillerString          string
+	fieldNamesSet         map[string]bool
+	recordTransformerFunc RecordTransformerFunc
+}
+
+func NewTransformerSparsify(
+	fillerString string,
+	specifiedFieldNames []string,
+) (*TransformerSparsify, error) {
+
+	tr := &TransformerSparsify{
+		fillerString:  fillerString,
+		fieldNamesSet: lib.StringListToSet(specifiedFieldNames),
+	}
+	if specifiedFieldNames == nil {
+		tr.recordTransformerFunc = tr.transformAll
+	} else {
+		tr.recordTransformerFunc = tr.transformSome
+	}
+
+	return tr, nil
+}
+
+func (tr *TransformerSparsify) Transform(
+	inrecAndContext *types.RecordAndContext,
+	outputRecordsAndContexts *list.List, // list of *types.RecordAndContext
+	inputDownstreamDoneChannel <-chan bool,
+	outputDownstreamDoneChannel chan<- bool,
+) {
+	HandleDefaultDownstreamDone(inputDownstreamDoneChannel, outputDownstreamDoneChannel)
+
+	if !inrecAndContext.EndOfStream {
+		tr.recordTransformerFunc(
+			inrecAndContext,
+			outputRecordsAndContexts,
+			inputDownstreamDoneChannel,
+			outputDownstreamDoneChannel,
+		)
+	} else {
+		outputRecordsAndContexts.PushBack(inrecAndContext) // end-of-stream marker
+	}
+}
+
+func (tr *TransformerSparsify) transformAll(
+	inrecAndContext *types.RecordAndContext,
+	outputRecordsAndContexts *list.List, // list of *types.RecordAndContext
+	inputDownstreamDoneChannel <-chan bool,
+	outputDownstreamDoneChannel chan<- bool,
+) {
+	inrec := inrecAndContext.Record
+	outrec := mlrval.NewMlrmapAsRecord()
+
+	for pe := inrec.Head; pe != nil; pe = pe.Next {
+		if pe.Value.String() != tr.fillerString {
+			// Reference OK because ownership transfer
+			outrec.PutReference(pe.Key, pe.Value)
+		}
+	}
+
+	outrecAndContext := types.NewRecordAndContext(outrec, &inrecAndContext.Context)
+	outputRecordsAndContexts.PushBack(outrecAndContext)
+}
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------
+func (tr *TransformerSparsify) transformSome(
+	inrecAndContext *types.RecordAndContext,
+	outputRecordsAndContexts *list.List, // list of *types.RecordAndContext
+	inputDownstreamDoneChannel <-chan bool,
+	outputDownstreamDoneChannel chan<- bool,
+) {
+	inrec := inrecAndContext.Record
+	outrec := mlrval.NewMlrmapAsRecord()
+
+	for pe := inrec.Head; pe != nil; pe = pe.Next {
+		if tr.fieldNamesSet[pe.Key] {
+			if pe.Value.String() != tr.fillerString {
+				// Reference OK because ownership transfer
+				outrec.PutReference(pe.Key, pe.Value)
+			}
+		} else {
+			outrec.PutReference(pe.Key, pe.Value)
+		}
+	}
+
+	outrecAndContext := types.NewRecordAndContext(outrec, &inrecAndContext.Context)
+	outputRecordsAndContexts.PushBack(outrecAndContext)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/split.go b/pkg/transformers/split.go
index 7834931e9..7295fa174 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/split.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/split.go
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/stats1.go b/pkg/transformers/stats1.go
index b58129691..1f924aa2d 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/stats1.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/stats1.go
@@ -8,11 +8,11 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers/utils"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers/utils"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Options:
 	fmt.Fprintln(o,
 		"Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size -g shape")
 	fmt.Fprintln(o,
-		"Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' -gr '^k.*$'")
+		"Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' --gr '^k.*$'")
 	fmt.Fprintln(o,
 		`        This computes count and mode statistics on all field names beginning
          with a through h, grouped by all field names starting with k.`)
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ func NewTransformerStats1(
 ) (*TransformerStats1, error) {
 	for _, name := range accumulatorNameList {
 		if !utils.ValidateStats1AccumulatorName(name) {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr stats1: accumulator \"%s\" not found.", name)
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf(`mlr stats1: accumulator "%s" not found`, name)
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/stats2.go b/pkg/transformers/stats2.go
index a30141021..f1e9d94de 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/stats2.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/stats2.go
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers/utils"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers/utils"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ func NewTransformerStats2(
 ) (*TransformerStats2, error) {
 	for _, name := range accumulatorNameList {
 		if !utils.ValidateStats2AccumulatorName(name) {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr stats2: accumulator \"%s\" not found.", name)
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf(`mlr stats2: accumulator "%s" not found`, name)
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/step.go b/pkg/transformers/step.go
index 56539cb90..e003aaf3f 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/step.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/step.go
@@ -73,12 +73,12 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers/utils"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers/utils"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // For EWMA
@@ -260,7 +260,6 @@ type TransformerStep struct {
 	// STATE
 
 	// Scratch space used per-record
-	valueFieldValues []mlrval.Mlrval
 	// Map from group-by field names to value-field names to stepper name to stepper object.  See
 	// the Transform method below for more details.
 	groups map[string]map[string]map[string]tStepper
@@ -282,12 +281,12 @@ func NewTransformerStep(
 ) (*TransformerStep, error) {
 
 	if len(stepperInputs) == 0 || len(valueFieldNames) == 0 {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr %s: -a and -f are both required arguments.", verbNameStep)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr %s: -a and -f are both required arguments", verbNameStep)
 	}
 	if len(stringAlphas) != 0 && len(ewmaSuffixes) != 0 {
 		if len(ewmaSuffixes) != len(stringAlphas) {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf(
-				"mlr %s: If -d and -o are provided, their values must have the same length.", verbNameStep,
+				"mlr %s: If -d and -o are provided, their values must have the same length", verbNameStep,
 			)
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/subs.go b/pkg/transformers/subs.go
index e57469d91..b5530bb17 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/subs.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/subs.go
@@ -7,11 +7,11 @@ import (
 	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ func transformerSubUsage(
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "See also the `gsub` and `ssub` verbs.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Options:\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-a          Convert all fields.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-h|--help   Show this message.\n")
 }
 
@@ -61,6 +63,8 @@ func transformerGsubUsage(
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "See also the `sub` and `ssub` verbs.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Options:\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-a          Convert all fields.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-h|--help   Show this message.\n")
 }
 
@@ -72,6 +76,8 @@ func transformerSsubUsage(
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "the old string, like the `ssub` DSL function. See also the `gsub` and `sub` verbs.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Options:\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-a          Convert all fields.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-h|--help   Show this message.\n")
 }
 
@@ -308,7 +314,7 @@ func (tr *TransformerSubs) fieldAcceptorByNames(
 	return tr.fieldNamesSet[fieldName]
 }
 
-// fieldAcceptorByNames implements -r
+// fieldAcceptorByRegexes implements -r
 func (tr *TransformerSubs) fieldAcceptorByRegexes(
 	fieldName string,
 ) bool {
@@ -320,7 +326,7 @@ func (tr *TransformerSubs) fieldAcceptorByRegexes(
 	return false
 }
 
-// fieldAcceptorByNames implements -a
+// fieldAcceptorAll implements -a
 func (tr *TransformerSubs) fieldAcceptorAll(
 	fieldName string,
 ) bool {
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/summary.go b/pkg/transformers/summary.go
index 1b1db3df4..6f386ab62 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/summary.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/summary.go
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers/utils"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers/utils"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ func transformerSummaryUsage(
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-a {mean,sum,etc.} Use only the specified summarizers.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-x {mean,sum,etc.} Use all summarizers, except the specified ones.\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "--all              Use all available summarizers.\n")
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "--transpose        Show output with field names as column names..\n")
 	fmt.Fprintf(o, "-h|--help Show this message.\n")
 }
 
@@ -427,7 +428,7 @@ func (tr *TransformerSummary) emitTransposed(
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
-// maybeEmitPercentileNameTransposed is a helper method for emitTransposed,
+// maybeEmitAccumulatorTransposed is a helper method for emitTransposed,
 // for "count", "sum", "mean", etc.
 func (tr *TransformerSummary) maybeEmitAccumulatorTransposed(
 	oracs *list.List, // list of *types.RecordAndContext
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/surv.go b/pkg/transformers/surv.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6d4b38f09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/transformers/surv.go
@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+package transformers
+
+import (
+	"container/list"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/kshedden/statmodel/duration"
+	"github.com/kshedden/statmodel/statmodel"
+)
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------
+const verbNameSurv = "surv"
+
+// SurvSetup defines the surv verb: Kaplan-Meier survival curve.
+var SurvSetup = TransformerSetup{
+	Verb:         verbNameSurv,
+	UsageFunc:    transformerSurvUsage,
+	ParseCLIFunc: transformerSurvParseCLI,
+	IgnoresInput: false,
+}
+
+func transformerSurvUsage(o *os.File) {
+	fmt.Fprintf(o, "Usage: %s %s -d {duration-field} -s {status-field}\n", "mlr", verbNameSurv)
+	fmt.Fprint(o, `
+Estimate Kaplan-Meier survival curve (right-censored).
+Options:
+  -d {field}   Name of duration field (time-to-event or censoring).
+  -s {field}   Name of status field (0=censored, 1=event).
+  -h, --help   Show this message.
+`)
+}
+
+func transformerSurvParseCLI(
+	pargi *int,
+	argc int,
+	args []string,
+	_ *cli.TOptions,
+	doConstruct bool,
+) IRecordTransformer {
+	argi := *pargi
+	verb := args[argi]
+	argi++
+
+	var durationField, statusField string
+
+	for argi < argc {
+		opt := args[argi]
+		if !strings.HasPrefix(opt, "-") {
+			break
+		}
+		if opt == "-h" || opt == "--help" {
+			transformerSurvUsage(os.Stdout)
+			os.Exit(0)
+		} else if opt == "-d" {
+			if argi+1 >= argc {
+				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr %s: %s requires an argument\n", verb, opt)
+				os.Exit(1)
+			}
+			argi++
+			durationField = args[argi]
+			argi++
+		} else if opt == "-s" {
+			if argi+1 >= argc {
+				fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr %s: %s requires an argument\n", verb, opt)
+				os.Exit(1)
+			}
+			argi++
+			statusField = args[argi]
+			argi++
+		} else {
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	*pargi = argi
+	if !doConstruct {
+		return nil
+	}
+	if durationField == "" {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr %s: -d option is required.\n", verbNameSurv)
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Please see 'mlr %s --help' for more information.\n", verbNameSurv)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	if statusField == "" {
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr %s: -s option is required.\n", verbNameSurv)
+		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Please see 'mlr %s --help' for more information.\n", verbNameSurv)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	return NewTransformerSurv(durationField, statusField)
+}
+
+// TransformerSurv holds fields for surv verb.
+type TransformerSurv struct {
+	durationField string
+	statusField   string
+	times         []float64
+	events        []bool
+}
+
+// NewTransformerSurv constructs a new surv transformer.
+func NewTransformerSurv(durationField, statusField string) IRecordTransformer {
+	return &TransformerSurv{
+		durationField: durationField,
+		statusField:   statusField,
+		times:         make([]float64, 0),
+		events:        make([]bool, 0),
+	}
+}
+
+// Transform processes each record or emits results at end-of-stream.
+func (tr *TransformerSurv) Transform(
+	inrecAndContext *types.RecordAndContext,
+	outputRecordsAndContexts *list.List,
+	inputDownstreamDoneChannel <-chan bool,
+	outputDownstreamDoneChannel chan<- bool,
+) {
+	HandleDefaultDownstreamDone(inputDownstreamDoneChannel, outputDownstreamDoneChannel)
+	if !inrecAndContext.EndOfStream {
+		rec := inrecAndContext.Record
+		mvDur := rec.Get(tr.durationField)
+		if mvDur == nil {
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr surv: duration field '%s' not found\n", tr.durationField)
+			os.Exit(1)
+		}
+		duration := mvDur.GetNumericToFloatValueOrDie()
+		mvStat := rec.Get(tr.statusField)
+		if mvStat == nil {
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr surv: status field '%s' not found\n", tr.statusField)
+			os.Exit(1)
+		}
+		status := mvStat.GetNumericToFloatValueOrDie() != 0
+		tr.times = append(tr.times, duration)
+		tr.events = append(tr.events, status)
+	} else {
+		// Compute survival using kshedden/statmodel
+		n := len(tr.times)
+		if n == 0 {
+			outputRecordsAndContexts.PushBack(inrecAndContext)
+			return
+		}
+		durations := tr.times
+		statuses := make([]float64, n)
+		for i, ev := range tr.events {
+			if ev {
+				statuses[i] = 1.0
+			} else {
+				statuses[i] = 0.0
+			}
+		}
+		dataCols := [][]float64{durations, statuses}
+		names := []string{tr.durationField, tr.statusField}
+		ds := statmodel.NewDataset(dataCols, names)
+		sf, err := duration.NewSurvfuncRight(ds, tr.durationField, tr.statusField, &duration.SurvfuncRightConfig{})
+		if err != nil {
+			fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "mlr surv: %v\n", err)
+			os.Exit(1)
+		}
+		sf.Fit()
+		times := sf.Time()
+		survProbs := sf.SurvProb()
+		for i, t := range times {
+			newrec := mlrval.NewMlrmapAsRecord()
+			newrec.PutCopy("time", mlrval.FromFloat(t))
+			newrec.PutCopy("survival", mlrval.FromFloat(survProbs[i]))
+			outputRecordsAndContexts.PushBack(types.NewRecordAndContext(newrec, &inrecAndContext.Context))
+		}
+		outputRecordsAndContexts.PushBack(inrecAndContext)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/tac.go b/pkg/transformers/tac.go
index 83ccd6876..ba25195cb 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/tac.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/tac.go
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/tail.go b/pkg/transformers/tail.go
index dcba44b67..345d09d53 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/tail.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/tail.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/tee.go b/pkg/transformers/tee.go
index 9e944df17..e5f5413ca 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/tee.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/tee.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/output"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/output"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ func (tr *TransformerTee) Transform(
 	// But 'mlr cut -f foo then tee bar.txt then head -n 10' -- one does expect
 	// bar.txt to have all the output from cut.
 	select {
-	case _ = <-inputDownstreamDoneChannel:
+	case <-inputDownstreamDoneChannel:
 		// Do not write this to the coutputDownstreamDoneChannel, as other transformers do
 		break
 	default:
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/template.go b/pkg/transformers/template.go
index 392f96377..a30bf7dae 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/template.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/template.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/top.go b/pkg/transformers/top.go
index 70119731b..9bc62fe69 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/top.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/top.go
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/transformers/utils"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/transformers/utils"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/unflatten.go b/pkg/transformers/unflatten.go
index d1e02a52c..dcf8014af 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/unflatten.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/unflatten.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/uniq.go b/pkg/transformers/uniq.go
index 5893b689a..ecd89a1c6 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/uniq.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/uniq.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/unspace.go b/pkg/transformers/unspace.go
index eb6253025..274f28fbd 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/unspace.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/unspace.go
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/unsparsify.go b/pkg/transformers/unsparsify.go
index 467b83dac..30ac1c3ee 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/unsparsify.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/unsparsify.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/utf8_to_latin1.go b/pkg/transformers/utf8_to_latin1.go
index fb658562a..bc744c8fa 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/utf8_to_latin1.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/utf8_to_latin1.go
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/utils/join_bucket.go b/pkg/transformers/utils/join_bucket.go
index 4e26e2538..f4390906f 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/utils/join_bucket.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/utils/join_bucket.go
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ package utils
 import (
 	"container/list"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/utils/join_bucket_keeper.go b/pkg/transformers/utils/join_bucket_keeper.go
index df218cc3d..237f2648b 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/utils/join_bucket_keeper.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/utils/join_bucket_keeper.go
@@ -113,11 +113,11 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/cli"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/input"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/cli"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/input"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/utils/percentile_keeper.go b/pkg/transformers/utils/percentile_keeper.go
index 0aebdc709..30701a7c3 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/utils/percentile_keeper.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/utils/percentile_keeper.go
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"sort"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 type PercentileKeeper struct {
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/utils/stats1_accumulators.go b/pkg/transformers/utils/stats1_accumulators.go
index 02756a9a3..1e5267a8a 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/utils/stats1_accumulators.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/utils/stats1_accumulators.go
@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"strings"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/bifs"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/bifs"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ var stats1AccumulatorInfos []stats1AccumulatorInfo = []stats1AccumulatorInfo{
 		"Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields",
 		NewStats1MeanAccumulator,
 	},
+	{
+		"mad",
+		"Compute mean absolute deviation",
+		NewStats1MeanAbsDevAccumulator,
+	},
 
 	{
 		"var",
@@ -504,6 +509,47 @@ func (acc *Stats1MeanAccumulator) Reset() {
 	acc.count = 0
 }
 
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------
+type Stats1MeanAbsDevAccumulator struct {
+	samples []*mlrval.Mlrval
+}
+
+func NewStats1MeanAbsDevAccumulator() IStats1Accumulator {
+	return &Stats1MeanAbsDevAccumulator{
+		samples: make([]*mlrval.Mlrval, 0, 1000),
+	}
+}
+func (acc *Stats1MeanAbsDevAccumulator) Ingest(value *mlrval.Mlrval) {
+	if value.IsNumeric() {
+		acc.samples = append(acc.samples, value)
+	}
+}
+func (acc *Stats1MeanAbsDevAccumulator) Emit() *mlrval.Mlrval {
+	n := len(acc.samples)
+	if n == 0 {
+		return mlrval.VOID
+	}
+	mn := mlrval.FromInt(int64(n))
+
+	mean := mlrval.FromInt(0)
+	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+		mean = bifs.BIF_plus_binary(mean, acc.samples[i])
+	}
+	mean = bifs.BIF_divide(mean, mn)
+
+	meanAbsDev := mlrval.FromInt(0)
+	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
+		diff := bifs.BIF_minus_binary(mean, acc.samples[i])
+		meanAbsDev = bifs.BIF_plus_binary(meanAbsDev, bifs.BIF_abs(diff))
+	}
+	meanAbsDev = bifs.BIF_divide(meanAbsDev, mn)
+
+	return meanAbsDev
+}
+func (acc *Stats1MeanAbsDevAccumulator) Reset() {
+	acc.samples = make([]*mlrval.Mlrval, 0, 1000)
+}
+
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 type Stats1MinAccumulator struct {
 	min *mlrval.Mlrval
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/utils/stats2_accumulators.go b/pkg/transformers/utils/stats2_accumulators.go
index 84fcdc030..e825af0aa 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/utils/stats2_accumulators.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/utils/stats2_accumulators.go
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ import (
 	"math"
 	"os"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/utils/top_keeper.go b/pkg/transformers/utils/top_keeper.go
index 3a3ce9e4e..4e59783d0 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/utils/top_keeper.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/utils/top_keeper.go
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 package utils
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/types"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/types"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/pkg/transformers/utils/window_keeper.go b/pkg/transformers/utils/window_keeper.go
index 2de875020..c19b33a2a 100644
--- a/pkg/transformers/utils/window_keeper.go
+++ b/pkg/transformers/utils/window_keeper.go
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package utils
 
 import (
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/lib"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/lib"
 )
 
 // WindowKeeper is a sliding-window container, nominally for use by mlr step,
diff --git a/pkg/types/context.go b/pkg/types/context.go
index 08ba3cbb6..6f82bc527 100644
--- a/pkg/types/context.go
+++ b/pkg/types/context.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"container/list"
 	"strconv"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // Since Go is concurrent, the context struct (AWK-like variables such as
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ type Context struct {
 	// NF int
 	NR  int64
 	FNR int64
+
+	// XXX 1513
+	JSONHadBrackets bool
 }
 
 // TODO: comment: Remember command-line values to pass along to CST evaluators.
diff --git a/pkg/types/mlrval_typing.go b/pkg/types/mlrval_typing.go
index e3c68b5f8..4eeb60269 100644
--- a/pkg/types/mlrval_typing.go
+++ b/pkg/types/mlrval_typing.go
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ package types
 import (
 	"fmt"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/mlrval"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/mlrval"
 )
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ func NewTypeGatedMlrvalName(
 ) (*TypeGatedMlrvalName, error) {
 	typeMask, ok := mlrval.TypeNameToMask(typeName)
 	if !ok {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("mlr: couldn't resolve type name \"%s\".", typeName)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf(`mlr: couldn't resolve type name "%s"`, typeName)
 	}
 	return &TypeGatedMlrvalName{
 		Name:     name,
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ func (tname *TypeGatedMlrvalName) Check(value *mlrval.Mlrval) error {
 		return nil
 	} else {
 		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"mlr: couldn't assign variable %s %s from value %s %s\n",
+			"mlr: couldn't assign variable %s %s from value %s %s",
 			tname.TypeName, tname.Name, value.GetTypeName(), value.String(),
 		)
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/version/version.go b/pkg/version/version.go
index 88e4fdfeb..ec9c7208a 100644
--- a/pkg/version/version.go
+++ b/pkg/version/version.go
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ package version
 // Nominally things like "6.0.0" for a release, then "6.0.0-dev" in between.
 // This makes it clear that a given build is on the main dev branch, not a
 // particular snapshot tag.
-var STRING string = "6.11.0"
+var STRING string = "6.16.0"
diff --git a/python/make-tsv.py b/python/make-tsv.py
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..bb55d0ba0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/make-tsv.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import sys
+
+nrow = 2
+ncol = 100
+if len(sys.argv) == 2:
+    ncol = int(sys.argv[1])
+if len(sys.argv) == 3:
+    nrow = int(sys.argv[1])
+    ncol = int(sys.argv[2])
+
+prefix = "k"
+for i in range(nrow):
+    for j in range(ncol):
+        if j == 0:
+            sys.stdout.write("%s%07d" % (prefix, j))
+        else:
+                sys.stdout.write("\t%s%07d" % (prefix, j))
+    sys.stdout.write("\n")
+    prefix = "v"
diff --git a/regression_test.go b/regression_test.go
index 5657d17bc..0ccaa3a15 100644
--- a/regression_test.go
+++ b/regression_test.go
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"testing"
 
-	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/pkg/terminals/regtest"
+	"github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/pkg/terminals/regtest"
 )
 
 // TestRegression is a familiar entry point for regression testing.  Miller
diff --git a/scripts/compiler-versions-build b/scripts/compiler-versions-build
index 49e2c2ad2..e575959e7 100755
--- a/scripts/compiler-versions-build
+++ b/scripts/compiler-versions-build
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 for go in go1.15.15 go1.16.12 go1.17.5 go1.18beta1; do
-  $go clean github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr
-  $go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/cmd/mlr
+  $go clean github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr
+  $go build github.com/johnkerl/miller/v6/cmd/mlr
   mv mlr mlr-$go
 done
diff --git a/snap/README.md b/snap/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2af316410
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snap/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+# Failed attempts to create a snap interactively
+
+2026-01-02 I used an Ubuntu 24.04 EC2 instance. I followed https://documentation.ubuntu.com/snapcraft/stable/. Error messages said things like
+
+```
+A network related operation failed in a context of no network access.
+Recommended resolution: Verify that the environment has internet connectivity; see https://canonical-craft-providers.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/explanation/ for further reference.
+Full execution log: '/home/ubuntu/.local/state/snapcraft/log/snapcraft-20260102-170252.488632.log'
+```
+
+when there was in fact no network problem. I remained confused.
+
+```
+$ sudo snapcraft pack
+
+$ lxc list
+
+$ snapcraft pack --destructive-mode
+
+$ snapcraft pack --use-multipass
+
+$ sudo snap install multipass
+
+$ snapcraft pack --use-multipass
+
+$ sudo lxd init --auto
+
+$ lxc network list
+
+$ sudo snapcraft pack
+
+$ sudo snap set snapcraft provider=multipass
+
+$ sudo snapcraft pack --destructive-mode
+
+[This created miller_6.15.0_arm64.snap]
+
+$ snapcraft upload --release=stable *.snap
+No keyring found to store or retrieve credentials from.
+Recommended resolution: Ensure the keyring is working or SNAPCRAFT_STORE_CREDENTIALS is correctly exported into the environment
+For more information, check out: https://documentation.ubuntu.com/snapcraft/stable/how-to/publishing/authenticate
+Full execution log: '/home/ubuntu/.local/state/snapcraft/log/snapcraft-20260102-172357.599171.log'
+
+$ ll *.snap
+-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8994816 Jan  2 17:22 miller_6.15.0_arm64.snap
+
+$ snap install *.snap
+error: access denied (try with sudo)
+
+$ sudo snap install *.snap
+error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap/component "miller_6.15.0_arm64.snap"
+```
+
+Conclusion:
+
+* I got cryptic error messages with various permutations.
+* Through trial and error I got a `.snap` file with `sudo` and `multipass` and `--destructive-mode`.
+* Even then, I got a `.snap` file only for the current machine's arch, and the resulting `.snap` file was not locally installable.
+* This led me to try a GitHub Action.
+
+# Info from Claude about auto-releasing
+
+Here's how to set up automatic Snap publishing from GitHub releases:
+
+## 1. Create snapcraft.yaml
+
+First, ensure you have a proper `snapcraft.yaml` in your repo root (or in a `snap/` directory):
+
+```yaml
+name: your-app-name
+base: core22  # or core24 for Ubuntu 24.04
+version: git  # automatically uses git tags
+summary: Single-line summary
+description: |
+  Longer description of your application
+
+grade: stable  # or devel
+confinement: strict  # or classic, devmode
+
+apps:
+  your-app-name:
+    command: bin/your-binary
+    plugs:
+      - home
+      - network
+
+parts:
+  your-app:
+    plugin: nil  # change based on your build system (go, python, etc.)
+    source: .
+    # Add build steps as needed
+```
+
+## 2. Get Snapcraft credentials
+
+Export your Snapcraft login credentials:
+
+```bash
+snapcraft export-login --snaps=miller --channels=stable,candidate,beta,edge snapcraft-token.txt
+```
+
+This creates a token file with limited permissions for just your snap.
+
+## 3. Add token to GitHub Secrets
+
+1. Go to your GitHub repo → Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions
+2. Click "New repository secret"
+3. Name: `SNAPCRAFT_TOKEN`
+4. Value: Paste the entire contents of `snapcraft-token.txt`
+
+## 4. Create GitHub Action workflow
+
+Create `.github/workflows/release.yml`:
+
+```yaml
+name: Release to Snap Store
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+jobs:
+  snap:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Build snap
+        uses: snapcore/action-build@v1
+        id: build
+
+      - name: Publish to Snap Store
+        uses: snapcore/action-publish@v1
+        env:
+          SNAPCRAFT_STORE_CREDENTIALS: ${{ secrets.SNAPCRAFT_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          snap: ${{ steps.build.outputs.snap }}
+          # release: stable  # or edge, beta, candidate
+          release: edge
+```
+
+## Tips
+
+- **Version handling**: Using `version: git` in snapcraft.yaml automatically uses your git tag as the version
+- **Channels**: Start with `edge` channel for testing, then promote to `stable` once confident
+- **Multiple architectures**: Add a build matrix if you need to support arm64, etc.
+- **Testing before stable**: Consider publishing to `candidate` or `beta` first, then manually promote to `stable` after testing
+
+Now when you create a GitHub release with a tag (e.g., `v1.0.0`), the workflow will automatically build and publish your snap!
diff --git a/snap/snapcraft.yaml b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d374a84b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+name: miller
+base: core24
+version: git
+summary: Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join and sort
+description: |
+  Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed.
+
+grade: stable
+confinement: strict
+
+adopt-info: miller
+
+website: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues
+contact: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues
+issues: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller/issues
+source-code: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
+
+license: BSD-2-Clause
+compression: lzo
+
+platforms:
+  amd64:
+    build-on: [amd64]
+    build-for: [amd64]
+  arm64:
+    build-on: [arm64]
+    build-for: [arm64]
+  armhf:
+    build-on: [armhf]
+    build-for: [armhf]
+  s390x:
+    build-on: [s390x]
+    build-for: [s390x]
+  ppc64el:
+    build-on: [ppc64el]
+    build-for: [ppc64el]
+
+apps:
+  miller:
+    command: usr/local/bin/mlr
+    plugs:
+      - home
+
+parts:
+  miller:
+    source: https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
+    source-type: git
+    plugin: make
+    build-snaps:
+      - go
+
+    override-pull: |
+      craftctl default
+      craftctl set version="$(git describe --tags | sed 's/^v//' | cut -d "-" -f1)"
diff --git a/test/cases/cli-help/0001/expout b/test/cases/cli-help/0001/expout
index b25e4a56d..19a201c62 100644
--- a/test/cases/cli-help/0001/expout
+++ b/test/cases/cli-help/0001/expout
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ Options:
  -r Treat field names as regular expressions. "ab", "a.*b" will
    match any field name containing the substring "ab" or matching
    "a.*b", respectively; anchors of the form "^ab$", "^a.*b$" may
-   be used. The -o flag is ignored when -r is present.
+   be used.
 -h|--help Show this message.
 Examples:
   mlr cut -f hostname,status
@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ Options:
 ================================================================
 filter
 Usage: mlr filter [options] {DSL expression}
+Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically filter which
+stream records will be output.
+See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs
+
 Options:
 -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
    is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded.
@@ -198,7 +202,7 @@ Options:
 Since the expression pieces are simply concatenated, please be sure to use intervening
 semicolons to separate expressions.)
 
--s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have 
+-s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have
     Thus mlr put -s foo=97 '$column += @foo' is like
     mlr put 'begin {@foo = 97} $column += @foo'.
     The value part is subject to type-inferencing.
@@ -388,6 +392,8 @@ for the old string and handling multiple matches, like the `gsub` DSL function.
 See also the `sub` and `ssub` verbs.
 Options:
 -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+-a          Convert all fields.
 -h|--help   Show this message.
 
 ================================================================
@@ -503,7 +509,7 @@ be specified CSV as well unless you override with 'mlr --csv ... join --ijson -l
 Likewise, if you have 'mlr --csv --implicit-csv-header ...' then the join-in file will be
 expected to be headerless as well unless you put '--no-implicit-csv-header' after 'join'.
 Please use "mlr --usage-separator-options" for information on specifying separators.
-Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs.html#join for more information
+Please see https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs#join for more information
 including examples.
 
 ================================================================
@@ -551,6 +557,7 @@ Options:
   antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie
   sum      Compute sums of specified fields
   mean     Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields
+  mad      Compute mean absolute deviation
   var      Compute sample variance of specified fields
   stddev   Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields
   meaneb   Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation)
@@ -661,6 +668,9 @@ Options:
 ================================================================
 put
 Usage: mlr put [options] {DSL expression}
+Lets you use a domain-specific language to programmatically alter stream records.
+See also: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference-verbs
+
 Options:
 -f {file name} File containing a DSL expression (see examples below). If the filename
    is a directory, all *.mlr files in that directory are loaded.
@@ -673,7 +683,7 @@ Options:
 Since the expression pieces are simply concatenated, please be sure to use intervening
 semicolons to separate expressions.)
 
--s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have 
+-s name=value: Predefines out-of-stream variable @name to have
     Thus mlr put -s foo=97 '$column += @foo' is like
     mlr put 'begin {@foo = 97} $column += @foo'.
     The value part is subject to type-inferencing.
@@ -770,9 +780,9 @@ Options:
            first-match replacement.
 -h|--help Show this message.
 Examples:
-mlr rename old_name,new_name'
-mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2'
-mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date,'  Rename all such fields to be "Date"
+mlr rename old_name,new_name
+mlr rename old_name_1,new_name_1,old_name_2,new_name_2
+mlr rename -r 'Date_[0-9]+,Date'  Rename all such fields to be "Date"
 mlr rename -r '"Date_[0-9]+",Date' Same
 mlr rename -r 'Date_([0-9]+).*,\1' Rename all such fields to be of the form 20151015
 mlr rename -r '"name"i,Name'       Rename "name", "Name", "NAME", etc. to "Name"
@@ -972,6 +982,7 @@ Options:
 -nf {comma-separated field names}  Same as -n
 -nr {comma-separated field names}  Numerical descending; nulls sort first
 -t  {comma-separated field names}  Natural ascending
+-b                                 Move sort fields to start of record, as in reorder -b
 -tr|-rt {comma-separated field names}  Natural descending
 -h|--help Show this message.
 
@@ -988,6 +999,18 @@ Options:
 -r        Recursively sort subobjects/submaps, e.g. for JSON input.
 -h|--help Show this message.
 
+================================================================
+sparsify
+Usage: mlr sparsify [options]
+Unsets fields for which the key is the empty string (or, optionally, another
+specified value). Only makes sense with output format not being CSV or TSV.
+Options:
+-s {filler string} What values to remove. Defaults to the empty string.
+-f {a,b,c} Specify field names to be operated on; any other fields won't be
+           modified. The default is to modify all fields.
+-h|--help  Show this message.
+Example: if input is a=1,b=,c=3 then output is a=1,c=3.
+
 ================================================================
 split
 Usage: mlr split [options] {filename}
@@ -1038,6 +1061,8 @@ Replaces old string with new string in specified field(s), without regex support
 the old string, like the `ssub` DSL function. See also the `gsub` and `sub` verbs.
 Options:
 -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+-a          Convert all fields.
 -h|--help   Show this message.
 
 ================================================================
@@ -1056,6 +1081,7 @@ Options:
   antimode Find least-frequently-occurring values for fields; first-found wins tie
   sum      Compute sums of specified fields
   mean     Compute averages (sample means) of specified fields
+  mad      Compute mean absolute deviation
   var      Compute sample variance of specified fields
   stddev   Compute sample standard deviation of specified fields
   meaneb   Estimate error bars for averages (assuming no sample autocorrelation)
@@ -1090,7 +1116,7 @@ Options:
 Example: mlr stats1 -a min,p10,p50,p90,max -f value -g size,shape
 Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size
 Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode -f size -g shape
-Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' -gr '^k.*$'
+Example: mlr stats1 -a count,mode --fr '^[a-h].*$' --gr '^k.*$'
         This computes count and mode statistics on all field names beginning
          with a through h, grouped by all field names starting with k.
 
@@ -1188,6 +1214,8 @@ for the old string and not handling multiple matches, like the `sub` DSL functio
 See also the `gsub` and `ssub` verbs.
 Options:
 -f {a,b,c}  Field names to convert.
+-r {regex}  Regular expression for field names to convert.
+-a          Convert all fields.
 -h|--help   Show this message.
 
 ================================================================
@@ -1231,8 +1259,19 @@ Options:
 -a {mean,sum,etc.} Use only the specified summarizers.
 -x {mean,sum,etc.} Use all summarizers, except the specified ones.
 --all              Use all available summarizers.
+--transpose        Show output with field names as column names..
 -h|--help Show this message.
 
+================================================================
+surv
+Usage: mlr surv -d {duration-field} -s {status-field}
+
+Estimate Kaplan-Meier survival curve (right-censored).
+Options:
+  -d {field}   Name of duration field (time-to-event or censoring).
+  -s {field}   Name of status field (0=censored, 1=event).
+  -h, --help   Show this message.
+
 ================================================================
 tac
 Usage: mlr tac [options]
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0002/experr b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0002/experr
index 49cdce4a4..49d1b3f4b 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0002/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0002/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable int i from value float 0.34679014
+mlr: couldn't assign variable int i from value float 0.34679014
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0003/experr b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0003/experr
index 93b3d02d8..88075a591 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0003/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0003/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable int function return value from value float 3.79679014
+mlr: couldn't assign variable int function return value from value float 3.79679014
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0004/experr b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0004/experr
index 8289c8c80..e3de7b5d2 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0004/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0004/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable int function return value from value float 4.45000000
+mlr: couldn't assign variable int function return value from value float 4.45000000
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0005/experr b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0005/experr
index 323a86f3f..22ff28ed1 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0005/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0005/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable int function return value from value error (error)
+mlr: couldn't assign variable int function return value from value error (error)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0007/experr b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0007/experr
index 85b8be44b..49cdce4a4 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0007/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0007/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable int i from value float 0.34679014
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0008/experr b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0008/experr
index 1dc1c87a0..4b9795ee1 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0008/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-argpass-typedecl/0008/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable num i from value string a
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0005/experr b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0005/experr
index 3f242c2b7..d2d964201 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0005/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0005/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'.
+mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0006/experr b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0006/experr
index 40195c5a1..f6f1ef0d1 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0006/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0006/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: '[[[...]]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'.
+mlr: '[[[...]]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0007/experr b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0007/experr
index 3f242c2b7..d2d964201 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0007/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0007/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'.
+mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0035/experr b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0035/experr
index 3f242c2b7..d2d964201 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0035/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0035/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'.
+mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0036/experr b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0036/experr
index 3f242c2b7..d2d964201 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0036/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0036/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'.
+mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0068/experr b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0068/experr
index 3f242c2b7..d2d964201 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0068/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0068/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'.
+mlr: '[[...]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0069/experr b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0069/experr
index 40195c5a1..f6f1ef0d1 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0069/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-array-map-indexing/0069/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: '[[[...]]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'.
+mlr: '[[[...]]]' is allowed on assignment left-hand sides only when immediately preceded by '$'
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-begin-end/0010/cmd b/test/cases/dsl-begin-end/0010/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..11bc26154
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-begin-end/0010/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --from test/input/s.dkvp put -q 'begin{print 8}; end{print 9}'
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-begin-end/0010/experr b/test/cases/dsl-begin-end/0010/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-begin-end/0010/expout b/test/cases/dsl-begin-end/0010/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..512858e60
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-begin-end/0010/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+8
+9
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0001/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0001/experr
index 153ac97b2..9ccf96101 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0001/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0001/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0002/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0002/experr
index 153ac97b2..9ccf96101 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0002/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0002/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0003/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0003/experr
index 1bf2e1cd8..2e5c850a0 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0003/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0003/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: end blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: end blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0004/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0004/experr
index 1bf2e1cd8..2e5c850a0 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0004/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0004/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: end blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: end blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0005/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0005/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0005/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0005/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0006/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0006/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0006/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0006/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0007/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0007/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0007/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0007/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0008/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0008/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0008/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0008/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0009/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0009/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0009/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0009/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0010/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0010/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0010/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0010/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0011/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0011/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0011/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0011/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0012/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0012/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0012/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0012/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0013/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0013/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0013/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0013/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0014/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0014/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0014/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0014/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0015/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0015/experr
index f70d4eb66..88c27a41c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0015/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0015/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops.
+mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0016/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0016/experr
index f70d4eb66..88c27a41c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0016/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0016/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops.
+mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0017/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0017/experr
index f70d4eb66..88c27a41c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0017/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0017/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops.
+mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0018/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0018/experr
index f70d4eb66..88c27a41c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0018/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0018/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops.
+mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0024/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0024/experr
index 0991fd583..326c8c258 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0024/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0024/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: filter expressions must not also contain the "filter" keyword.
+mlr: filter expressions must not also contain the "filter" keyword
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0025/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0025/experr
index 0991fd583..326c8c258 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0025/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-specific-validation/0025/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: filter expressions must not also contain the "filter" keyword.
+mlr: filter expressions must not also contain the "filter" keyword
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0001/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0001/experr
index 153ac97b2..9ccf96101 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0001/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0001/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0002/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0002/experr
index 1bf2e1cd8..2e5c850a0 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0002/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0002/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: end blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: end blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0003/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0003/experr
index 153ac97b2..9ccf96101 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0003/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0003/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0004/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0004/experr
index 1bf2e1cd8..2e5c850a0 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0004/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0004/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: end blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: end blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0005/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0005/experr
index 28403d108..105a572c5 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0005/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0005/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: func blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: func blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0006/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0006/experr
index aa4913898..bb100265c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0006/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0006/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0007/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0007/experr
index e8c49427b..5bfdbce14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0007/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0007/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc.
+mlr: begin/end blocks cannot refer to records via $x, $*, etc
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0008/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0008/experr
index 9979f9d90..62e02c192 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0008/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0008/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: return statements are only valid within func/subr blocks.
+mlr: return statements are only valid within func/subr blocks
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0009/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0009/experr
index f70d4eb66..88c27a41c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0009/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0009/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops.
+mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0010/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0010/experr
index f70d4eb66..88c27a41c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0010/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0010/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops.
+mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0011/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0011/experr
index f70d4eb66..88c27a41c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0011/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0011/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops.
+mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0012/experr b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0012/experr
index f70d4eb66..88c27a41c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0012/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-context-validation/0012/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops.
+mlr: break statements are only valid within for/do/while loops
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-empty-statements/0002/experr b/test/cases/dsl-empty-statements/0002/experr
index 7d441dec9..ade7a9c32 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-empty-statements/0002/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-empty-statements/0002/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: filter statement must not be empty.
+mlr: filter statement must not be empty
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-env/0008/experr b/test/cases/dsl-env/0008/experr
index c58cbb290..624b07c03 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-env/0008/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-env/0008/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: ENV[...] cannot be indexed.
+mlr: ENV[...] cannot be indexed
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-first-class-functions/sort-errors-04/experr b/test/cases/dsl-first-class-functions/sort-errors-04/experr
index 41f95ed46..4a9e7afda 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-first-class-functions/sort-errors-04/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-first-class-functions/sort-errors-04/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-mlr: function sort takes maximum argument count 2; got 4.
-
+mlr: function sort takes maximum argument count 2; got 4
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-first-class-functions/sort-errors-05/experr b/test/cases/dsl-first-class-functions/sort-errors-05/experr
index 41f95ed46..4a9e7afda 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-first-class-functions/sort-errors-05/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-first-class-functions/sort-errors-05/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-mlr: function sort takes maximum argument count 2; got 4.
-
+mlr: function sort takes maximum argument count 2; got 4
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0005/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0005/experr
index 69c0cca99..31b1667e3 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0005/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0005/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable k in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable k in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0006/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0006/experr
index 69c0cca99..31b1667e3 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0006/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0006/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable k in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable k in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0007/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0007/experr
index 5226846af..e26fb2c94 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0007/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0007/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable a in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable a in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0008/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0008/experr
index 5226846af..e26fb2c94 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0008/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0008/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable a in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable a in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0009/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0009/experr
index 014bc942f..0ec7e995f 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0009/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0009/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable b in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable b in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0010/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0010/experr
index 5226846af..e26fb2c94 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0010/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0010/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable a in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable a in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0011/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0011/experr
index 5226846af..e26fb2c94 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0011/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0011/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable a in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable a in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0012/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0012/experr
index 5226846af..e26fb2c94 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0012/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0012/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable a in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable a in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0013/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0013/experr
index 014bc942f..0ec7e995f 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0013/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0013/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable b in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable b in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0014/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0014/experr
index 014bc942f..0ec7e995f 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0014/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0014/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable b in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable b in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0015/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0015/experr
index 91d20ead9..b5ded9d15 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0015/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-oosvar-loops/0015/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: redefinition of variable c in the same scope.
+mlr: redefinition of variable c in the same scope
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0006/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0006/experr
index 148fb6f19..0c3735274 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0006/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0006/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: the triple-for continutation statement must be a bare boolean.
+mlr: the triple-for continuation statement must be a bare boolean
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0008/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0008/experr
index ad7b7a3ce..8e4a46c2e 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0008/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0008/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: the final triple-for continutation statement must be a bare boolean.
+mlr: the final triple-for continuation statement must be a bare boolean
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0009/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0009/experr
index 48da09e23..f6e32effe 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0009/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0009/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: the non-final triple-for continutation statements must be assignments.
+mlr: the non-final triple-for continuation statements must be assignments
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0010/experr b/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0010/experr
index 48da09e23..f6e32effe 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0010/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-for-variants/0010/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: the non-final triple-for continutation statements must be assignments.
+mlr: the non-final triple-for continuation statements must be assignments
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0002/experr b/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0002/experr
index 870536d9d..2d3ce42b4 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0002/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0002/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable float i from value int 0
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0004/experr b/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0004/experr
index f19d3e91b..350883003 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0004/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0004/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable int i from value float 1.50000000
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0005/experr b/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0005/experr
index 02ec7d367..bc277f19f 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0005/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-forbind-typedecl/0005/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable int i from value float 1.00000000
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-functional-tests/0051/expout b/test/cases/dsl-functional-tests/0051/expout
index d14a2c4d2..97353ee3a 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-functional-tests/0051/expout
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-functional-tests/0051/expout
@@ -60,5 +60,3 @@
     "zsgnt": "int"
   }
 ]
-[
-]
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-lashed-emitp-singles/0075/experr b/test/cases/dsl-lashed-emitp-singles/0075/experr
index abe43d98a..c90eb2309 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-lashed-emitp-singles/0075/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-lashed-emitp-singles/0075/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: lashed-emit node types must be local variables, field names, or oosvars; got map literal.
+mlr: lashed-emit node types must be local variables, field names, or oosvars; got map literal
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/cond/experr b/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/cond/experr
index 7d9b1ed3f..0993a5d51 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/cond/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/cond/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean at DSL expression line 5 column 3.
+mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean at DSL expression line 5 column 3
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/do-while/experr b/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/do-while/experr
index 2ae50c49a..4b2d5dfa8 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/do-while/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/do-while/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean at DSL expression line 6 column 12.
+mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean at DSL expression line 6 column 12
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/for/experr b/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/for/experr
index a99b7edd3..0c385cf26 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/for/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/for/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: for-loop continuation did not evaluate to boolean at DSL expression line 5 column 9.
+mlr: for-loop continuation did not evaluate to boolean at DSL expression line 5 column 9
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/if/experr b/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/if/experr
index 2c953ec07..8b4f058c6 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/if/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/if/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean at DSL expression line 5 column 7.
+mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean at DSL expression line 5 column 7
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/while/experr b/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/while/experr
index 977d70e73..eb2268d9f 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/while/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-line-number-column-number/while/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean at DSL expression line 5 column 10.
+mlr: conditional expression did not evaluate to boolean at DSL expression line 5 column 10
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-local-map-variable-typedecl/0003/experr b/test/cases/dsl-local-map-variable-typedecl/0003/experr
index 74d6d8036..35f4a78af 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-local-map-variable-typedecl/0003/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-local-map-variable-typedecl/0003/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable map a from value int 2
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-local-map-variable-typedecl/0004/experr b/test/cases/dsl-local-map-variable-typedecl/0004/experr
index 74d6d8036..35f4a78af 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-local-map-variable-typedecl/0004/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-local-map-variable-typedecl/0004/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable map a from value int 2
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-localvar-typedecl/0002/experr b/test/cases/dsl-localvar-typedecl/0002/experr
index 7bf2edfba..80caea3e4 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-localvar-typedecl/0002/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-localvar-typedecl/0002/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable str a from value int 1
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-localvar-typedecl/0003/experr b/test/cases/dsl-localvar-typedecl/0003/experr
index f2baa162e..89b17ca3e 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-localvar-typedecl/0003/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-localvar-typedecl/0003/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable int a from value string pan
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-map-funcs/0003/experr b/test/cases/dsl-map-funcs/0003/experr
index b46352b1b..aebcb76c3 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-map-funcs/0003/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-map-funcs/0003/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-mlr: function mapexcept takes minimum argument count 1; got 0.
-
+mlr: function mapexcept takes minimum argument count 1; got 0
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-map-funcs/0004/experr b/test/cases/dsl-map-funcs/0004/experr
index cdbfc0f29..a177b4adc 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-map-funcs/0004/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-map-funcs/0004/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-mlr: function mapselect takes minimum argument count 1; got 0.
-
+mlr: function mapselect takes minimum argument count 1; got 0
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-mapsum-mapdiff-mapexcept/0003/experr b/test/cases/dsl-mapsum-mapdiff-mapexcept/0003/experr
index b46352b1b..aebcb76c3 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-mapsum-mapdiff-mapexcept/0003/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-mapsum-mapdiff-mapexcept/0003/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-mlr: function mapexcept takes minimum argument count 1; got 0.
-
+mlr: function mapexcept takes minimum argument count 1; got 0
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-mapsum-mapdiff-mapexcept/0004/experr b/test/cases/dsl-mapsum-mapdiff-mapexcept/0004/experr
index cdbfc0f29..a177b4adc 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-mapsum-mapdiff-mapexcept/0004/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-mapsum-mapdiff-mapexcept/0004/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-mlr: function mapselect takes minimum argument count 1; got 0.
-
+mlr: function mapselect takes minimum argument count 1; got 0
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-mapvar-assignments/0050/experr b/test/cases/dsl-mapvar-assignments/0050/experr
index 7da47746e..c99edb2b9 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-mapvar-assignments/0050/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-mapvar-assignments/0050/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable map o from value int 1
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-mapvar-assignments/0056/experr b/test/cases/dsl-mapvar-assignments/0056/experr
index 7da47746e..c99edb2b9 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-mapvar-assignments/0056/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-mapvar-assignments/0056/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable map o from value int 1
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0006/experr b/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0006/experr
index d99ee6563..e82e26c86 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0006/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0006/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable int x from value float 0.34679014
+mlr: couldn't assign variable int x from value float 0.34679014
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0008/experr b/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0008/experr
index d99ee6563..e82e26c86 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0008/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0008/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable int x from value float 0.34679014
+mlr: couldn't assign variable int x from value float 0.34679014
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0010/experr b/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0010/experr
index d99ee6563..e82e26c86 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0010/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0010/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable int x from value float 0.34679014
+mlr: couldn't assign variable int x from value float 0.34679014
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0011/experr b/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0011/experr
index 5ee09d0dc..23c61d240 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0011/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0011/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable int function return value from value absent (absent)
+mlr: couldn't assign variable int function return value from value absent (absent)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0012/experr b/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0012/experr
index 75f9941ea..b52b23036 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0012/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-mapvars-udfs-subroutines/0012/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable var b from value error (error)
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-no-filter-in-filter/0002/experr b/test/cases/dsl-no-filter-in-filter/0002/experr
index 0991fd583..326c8c258 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-no-filter-in-filter/0002/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-no-filter-in-filter/0002/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: filter expressions must not also contain the "filter" keyword.
+mlr: filter expressions must not also contain the "filter" keyword
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-output-redirects/0071/expout b/test/cases/dsl-output-redirects/0071/expout
index 4a1435f7c..eed189aad 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-output-redirects/0071/expout
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-output-redirects/0071/expout
@@ -9,5 +9,3 @@ x
 8
 9
 10
-[
-]
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-parse/0112/experr b/test/cases/dsl-parse/0112/experr
index c83d31e2e..5e6a6bb14 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-parse/0112/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-parse/0112/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: int literal is not valid for unset statement.
+mlr: int literal is not valid for unset statement
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-sorts/sorta-natural/expout b/test/cases/dsl-sorts/sorta-natural/expout
index 01349be34..05972250a 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-sorts/sorta-natural/expout
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-sorts/sorta-natural/expout
@@ -2,5 +2,3 @@
 ["X200", "X20", "X2", "X100", "X10", "X1"]
 ["X1", "X2", "X10", "X20", "X100", "X200"]
 ["X200", "X100", "X20", "X10", "X2", "X1"]
-[
-]
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-sorts/sortmf-within/expout b/test/cases/dsl-sorts/sortmf-within/expout
index c683738c5..acb15cce5 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-sorts/sortmf-within/expout
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-sorts/sortmf-within/expout
@@ -18,5 +18,3 @@
   "b": 2,
   "c": 1
 }
-[
-]
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0021/expout b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0021/expout
index a49c0a717..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0021/expout
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0021/expout
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-[3, 4, 5]
-[3, 4]
-[3]
-[]
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0021/mlr b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0021/mlr
index 86e3dd532..32232c023 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0021/mlr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0021/mlr
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-end {
+test/cases/dsl-split-join/0021/mlrend {
   print splita("3,4,5", ",");
   print splita("3,4", ",");
   print splita("3", ",");
+  print splita(3, ",");
   print splita("", ",");
 }
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/cmd b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6add080d4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr -n put -f ${CASEDIR}/mlr
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/experr b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/expout b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..51b400812
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/expout
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+345
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/mlr b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/mlr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..08e79d8dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-split-join/0028/mlr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+end {print joinv([3,4,5], "")}
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/cmd b/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..94b141d0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --icsv --ojson put -f ${CASEDIR}/mlr ${CASEDIR}/input.csv
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/experr b/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/expout b/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dcb25f94b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[
+{
+  "path": "test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/input.csv",
+  "name": "input.csv",
+  "isdir": false
+},
+{
+  "path": "test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/",
+  "name": "0001",
+  "isdir": true
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/input.csv b/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/input.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d2731b359
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/input.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+path
+test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/input.csv
+test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/mlr b/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/mlr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..195f1c6a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-stat/0001/mlr
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+s = stat($path);
+$name  = s["name"];
+$isdir = s["isdir"];
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-subr/0007/experr b/test/cases/dsl-subr/0007/experr
index 57f65d06e..54423defa 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-subr/0007/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-subr/0007/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: return statements in subr blocks must not return a value.
+mlr: return statements in subr blocks must not return a value
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-subr/0015/experr b/test/cases/dsl-subr/0015/experr
index 96372b783..374f3bf05 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-subr/0015/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-subr/0015/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: subroutine named "s" has already been defined.
+mlr: subroutine named "s" has already been defined
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-triple-for-loops/0015/experr b/test/cases/dsl-triple-for-loops/0015/experr
index 148fb6f19..0c3735274 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-triple-for-loops/0015/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-triple-for-loops/0015/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: the triple-for continutation statement must be a bare boolean.
+mlr: the triple-for continuation statement must be a bare boolean
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-triple-for-loops/0016/experr b/test/cases/dsl-triple-for-loops/0016/experr
index 48da09e23..f6e32effe 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-triple-for-loops/0016/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-triple-for-loops/0016/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: the non-final triple-for continutation statements must be assignments.
+mlr: the non-final triple-for continuation statements must be assignments
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0004/experr b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0004/experr
index 698f98f19..d773f96b4 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0004/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0004/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable str x from value int 3
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0005/experr b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0005/experr
index d1a782622..a9603769f 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0005/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0005/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 mlr: couldn't assign variable arr x from value int 3
-
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0009/experr b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0009/experr
index d773f96b4..4294ddc2e 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0009/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0009/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable str x from value int 3
+mlr: couldn't assign variable str x from value int 3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0010/experr b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0010/experr
index a9603769f..55d3b8e4d 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0010/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0010/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable arr x from value int 3
+mlr: couldn't assign variable arr x from value int 3
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0014/experr b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0014/experr
index 83d5d73ae..84cc0ab08 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0014/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0014/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable str function return value from value int 6
+mlr: couldn't assign variable str function return value from value int 6
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0015/experr b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0015/experr
index 16aa9509e..2e3bd9694 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0015/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-typedecl/0015/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: couldn't assign variable arr function return value from value int 6
+mlr: couldn't assign variable arr function return value from value int 6
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0004/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0004/experr
index 57f65d06e..54423defa 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0004/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0004/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: return statements in subr blocks must not return a value.
+mlr: return statements in subr blocks must not return a value
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0005/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0005/experr
index 6ffaf460f..8a639f9e1 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0005/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0005/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: return statements in func blocks must return a value.
+mlr: return statements in func blocks must return a value
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0008/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0008/experr
index 7c7da7e52..17bba472c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0008/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0008/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: function named "log" must not override a built-in function of the same name.
+mlr: function named "log" must not override a built-in function of the same name
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0010/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0010/experr
index 153ac97b2..9ccf96101 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0010/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0010/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0011/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0011/experr
index 1bf2e1cd8..2e5c850a0 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0011/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0011/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: end blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: end blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0012/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0012/experr
index 153ac97b2..9ccf96101 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0012/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0012/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0013/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0013/experr
index 1bf2e1cd8..2e5c850a0 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0013/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0013/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: end blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: end blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0014/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0014/experr
index 28403d108..105a572c5 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0014/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0014/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: func blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: func blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0015/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0015/experr
index aa4913898..bb100265c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0015/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0015/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0016/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0016/experr
index 28403d108..105a572c5 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0016/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0016/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: func blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: func blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0017/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0017/experr
index aa4913898..bb100265c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0017/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0017/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0018/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0018/experr
index 153ac97b2..9ccf96101 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0018/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0018/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0019/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0019/experr
index 1bf2e1cd8..2e5c850a0 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0019/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0019/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: end blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: end blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0020/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0020/experr
index 153ac97b2..9ccf96101 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0020/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0020/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: begin blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0021/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0021/experr
index 1bf2e1cd8..2e5c850a0 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0021/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0021/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: end blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: end blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0022/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0022/experr
index 28403d108..105a572c5 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0022/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0022/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: func blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: func blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0023/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0023/experr
index aa4913898..bb100265c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0023/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0023/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0024/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0024/experr
index 28403d108..105a572c5 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0024/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0024/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: func blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: func blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0025/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0025/experr
index aa4913898..bb100265c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0025/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0025/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level.
+mlr: subr blocks can only be at top level
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0026/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0026/experr
index 7c7da7e52..17bba472c 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0026/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0026/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: function named "log" must not override a built-in function of the same name.
+mlr: function named "log" must not override a built-in function of the same name
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0027/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0027/experr
index c1c50ef4d..e7f7b7522 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0027/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0027/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: function named "f" has already been defined.
+mlr: function named "f" has already been defined
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0028/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0028/experr
index 96372b783..374f3bf05 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0028/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0028/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: subroutine named "s" has already been defined.
+mlr: subroutine named "s" has already been defined
diff --git a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0029/experr b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0029/experr
index 96372b783..374f3bf05 100644
--- a/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0029/experr
+++ b/test/cases/dsl-user-defined-functions-and-subroutines/0029/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr: subroutine named "s" has already been defined.
+mlr: subroutine named "s" has already been defined
diff --git a/test/cases/io-json-io/0036/cmd b/test/cases/io-json-io/0036/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a298f0f2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-json-io/0036/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --ijson --opprint cat test/input/binary.json
diff --git a/test/cases/io-json-io/0036/experr b/test/cases/io-json-io/0036/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/io-json-io/0036/expout b/test/cases/io-json-io/0036/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dd883f4e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-json-io/0036/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+msg
+X����Y
diff --git a/test/cases/io-json-io/0037/cmd b/test/cases/io-json-io/0037/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..abcffb242
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-json-io/0037/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr -j cat test/input/binary.json
diff --git a/test/cases/io-json-io/0037/experr b/test/cases/io-json-io/0037/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/io-json-io/0037/expout b/test/cases/io-json-io/0037/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9bf2f47be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-json-io/0037/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[
+{
+  "msg": "X\u0001\b����\u0012Y"
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/io-jsonl-io/0004/cmd b/test/cases/io-jsonl-io/0004/cmd
index 380bba0ca..8aa87f37e 100644
--- a/test/cases/io-jsonl-io/0004/cmd
+++ b/test/cases/io-jsonl-io/0004/cmd
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr --ojsonl cat test/input/json-output-options.dkvp
+mlr -o jsonl cat test/input/json-output-options.dkvp
diff --git a/test/cases/io-multi/0053/expout b/test/cases/io-multi/0053/expout
index 0d4f101c7..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/test/cases/io-multi/0053/expout
+++ b/test/cases/io-multi/0053/expout
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[
-]
diff --git a/test/cases/io-multi/0057/expout b/test/cases/io-multi/0057/expout
index 0d4f101c7..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/test/cases/io-multi/0057/expout
+++ b/test/cases/io-multi/0057/expout
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[
-]
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/cmd b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..611187612
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --skip-comments --csv --pass-comments cat test/input/pr-1346.csv
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/experr b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..10864f8ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: mlr: CSV header/data length mismatch 2 != 1 at filename test/input/pr-1346.csv row 4.
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/expout b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7872a7a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+field1,field2
+a,b
+# that was the first record
+c,d
+# that was the second record, and there is no more data
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/should-fail b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1346/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/cmd b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8ecdde63e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --csv cat test/input/pr-1787.csv
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/experr b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9e02e68bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: parse error on line 3, column 4: bare " in non-quoted-field.
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/expout b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bfde6bfa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+a,b,c
+1,2,3
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/should-fail b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-a/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-b/cmd b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-b/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c79588a16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-b/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --csv --pass-comments cat test/input/pr-1787.csv
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-b/experr b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-b/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-b/expout b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-b/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..23b8c638c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-b/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+a,b,c
+1,2,3
+# x"y
+4,5,6
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-c/cmd b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-c/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8e17a1f3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-c/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --csv --skip-comments cat test/input/pr-1787.csv
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-c/experr b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-c/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-c/expout b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-c/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..88700c714
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-c/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+a,b,c
+1,2,3
+4,5,6
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-d/cmd b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-d/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9db12e96e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-d/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --csv --skip-comments-with '##' cat test/input/pr-1787.csv
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-d/experr b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-d/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f8b7d1e1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-d/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: for CSV, the comment prefix must be a single character.
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-d/expout b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-d/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-d/should-fail b/test/cases/io-skip-pass-comments/pr-1787-d/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/io-spec-tsv/0004/experr b/test/cases/io-spec-tsv/0004/experr
index 77ead78b2..a996791ac 100644
--- a/test/cases/io-spec-tsv/0004/experr
+++ b/test/cases/io-spec-tsv/0004/experr
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
-mlr: mlr: TSV header/data length mismatch 1 != 0 at filename test/cases/io-spec-tsv/0004/single-column-with-blank.tsv line  4.
-.
+mlr: mlr: TSV header/data length mismatch 1 != 0 at filename test/cases/io-spec-tsv/0004/single-column-with-blank.tsv line 4.
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/csv/cmd b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/csv/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c0111df1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/csv/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --csv cat /nonesuch/nope/never
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/csv/experr b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/csv/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..486e326b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/csv/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: open /nonesuch/nope/never: no such file or directory.
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/csv/expout b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/csv/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/csv/should-fail b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/csv/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/dkvp/cmd b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/dkvp/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e0a95d06c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/dkvp/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --dkvp cat /nonesuch/nope/never
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/dkvp/experr b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/dkvp/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..486e326b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/dkvp/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: open /nonesuch/nope/never: no such file or directory.
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/dkvp/expout b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/dkvp/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/dkvp/should-fail b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/dkvp/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/imd/cmd b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/imd/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..53adb3fe5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/imd/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --imd cat /nonesuch/nope/never
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/imd/experr b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/imd/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..486e326b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/imd/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: open /nonesuch/nope/never: no such file or directory.
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/imd/expout b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/imd/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/imd/should-fail b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/imd/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/cmd b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..92c89b17f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --json cat /nonesuch/nope/never
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/experr b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..486e326b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: open /nonesuch/nope/never: no such file or directory.
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/expout b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d4f101c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/should-fail b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/json/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/jsonl/cmd b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/jsonl/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..551c0b0a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/jsonl/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --jsonl cat /nonesuch/nope/never
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/jsonl/experr b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/jsonl/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..486e326b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/jsonl/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: open /nonesuch/nope/never: no such file or directory.
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/jsonl/expout b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/jsonl/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/jsonl/should-fail b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/jsonl/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/nidx/cmd b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/nidx/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b5b1a2316
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/nidx/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --nidx cat /nonesuch/nope/never
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/nidx/experr b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/nidx/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..486e326b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/nidx/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: open /nonesuch/nope/never: no such file or directory.
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/nidx/expout b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/nidx/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/nidx/should-fail b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/nidx/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/pprint/cmd b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/pprint/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..51a3a4d6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/pprint/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --pprint cat /nonesuch/nope/never
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/pprint/experr b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/pprint/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..486e326b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/pprint/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: open /nonesuch/nope/never: no such file or directory.
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/pprint/expout b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/pprint/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/pprint/should-fail b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/pprint/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/tsv/cmd b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/tsv/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fbb231b7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/tsv/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --tsv cat /nonesuch/nope/never
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/tsv/experr b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/tsv/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..486e326b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/tsv/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: open /nonesuch/nope/never: no such file or directory.
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/tsv/expout b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/tsv/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/tsv/should-fail b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/tsv/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/xtab/cmd b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/xtab/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dca5d1681
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/xtab/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --xtab cat /nonesuch/nope/never
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/xtab/experr b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/xtab/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..486e326b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/xtab/experr
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr: open /nonesuch/nope/never: no such file or directory.
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/xtab/expout b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/xtab/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/xtab/should-fail b/test/cases/non-windows/file-not-found/xtab/should-fail
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/io-compressed-input/0017/cmd b/test/cases/non-windows/io-compressed-input/0017/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71f61cc5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/io-compressed-input/0017/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --csv cat test/input/whitespace*.csv
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/io-compressed-input/0017/experr b/test/cases/non-windows/io-compressed-input/0017/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/non-windows/io-compressed-input/0017/expout b/test/cases/non-windows/io-compressed-input/0017/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..88700c714
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/non-windows/io-compressed-input/0017/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+a,b,c
+1,2,3
+4,5,6
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-flatten-unflatten/0011/expout b/test/cases/verb-flatten-unflatten/0011/expout
index 9a45bc186..18f737223 100644
--- a/test/cases/verb-flatten-unflatten/0011/expout
+++ b/test/cases/verb-flatten-unflatten/0011/expout
@@ -24,6 +24,13 @@
   "wrapper": {
     "empty3": {},
     "emtpy4": []
-  }
+  },
+  "x": {
+    "y": 1
+  },
+  "@": 2,
+  "x@": 3,
+  "@y": 4,
+  "x@@y": 5
 }
 ]
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-format-values/0003/expout b/test/cases/verb-format-values/0003/expout
index 06216b5ca..9a45bc186 100644
--- a/test/cases/verb-format-values/0003/expout
+++ b/test/cases/verb-format-values/0003/expout
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [
 {
   "hostname": "localhost",
-  "pid": 0x3039,
+  "pid": 12345,
   "req": {
     "id": 6789,
     "method": "GET",
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-label/0009/experr b/test/cases/verb-label/0009/experr
index 615cfe2bf..0933a079d 100644
--- a/test/cases/verb-label/0009/experr
+++ b/test/cases/verb-label/0009/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr label: labels must be unique; got duplicate "d"
+mlr label: labels must be unique; got duplicate "d"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0001/cmd b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0001/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..38ec29b15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0001/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --c2j --from test/input/sparsify-input.csv sparsify
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0001/experr b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0001/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0001/expout b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0001/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e9c9893a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0001/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+[
+{
+  "a": 1,
+  "b": 2,
+  "c": 3
+},
+{
+  "a": 4,
+  "b": 5
+},
+{},
+{
+  "a": 7,
+  "b": 8,
+  "c": 9
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0002/cmd b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0002/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3ac1c9630
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0002/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --c2j --from test/input/sparsify-input.csv sparsify -f a
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0002/experr b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0002/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0002/expout b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0002/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8bc89d0aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0002/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+[
+{
+  "a": 1,
+  "b": 2,
+  "c": 3
+},
+{
+  "a": 4,
+  "b": 5,
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "b": "",
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": 7,
+  "b": 8,
+  "c": 9
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0003/cmd b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0003/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fc08ebef9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0003/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --c2j --from test/input/sparsify-input.csv sparsify -f b
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0003/experr b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0003/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0003/expout b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0003/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b607e3893
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0003/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+[
+{
+  "a": 1,
+  "b": 2,
+  "c": 3
+},
+{
+  "a": 4,
+  "b": 5,
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": "",
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": 7,
+  "b": 8,
+  "c": 9
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0004/cmd b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0004/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5ea1aa7bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0004/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --c2j --from test/input/sparsify-input.csv sparsify -f b,c
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0004/experr b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0004/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0004/expout b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0004/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ebf9878cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0004/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+[
+{
+  "a": 1,
+  "b": 2,
+  "c": 3
+},
+{
+  "a": 4,
+  "b": 5
+},
+{
+  "a": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": 7,
+  "b": 8,
+  "c": 9
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0005/cmd b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0005/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..012aee2b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0005/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --c2j --from test/input/sparsify-input.csv sparsify -s 1
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0005/experr b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0005/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0005/expout b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0005/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..839476d58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0005/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+[
+{
+  "b": 2,
+  "c": 3
+},
+{
+  "a": 4,
+  "b": 5,
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": "",
+  "b": "",
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": 7,
+  "b": 8,
+  "c": 9
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0006/cmd b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0006/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..42567786a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0006/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --c2j --from test/input/sparsify-input.csv sparsify -f a -s 1
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0006/experr b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0006/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0006/expout b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0006/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..839476d58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0006/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+[
+{
+  "b": 2,
+  "c": 3
+},
+{
+  "a": 4,
+  "b": 5,
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": "",
+  "b": "",
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": 7,
+  "b": 8,
+  "c": 9
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0007/cmd b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0007/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..99b590da4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0007/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --c2j --from test/input/sparsify-input.csv sparsify -f b -s 1
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0007/experr b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0007/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0007/expout b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0007/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d7f95feba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0007/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+[
+{
+  "a": 1,
+  "b": 2,
+  "c": 3
+},
+{
+  "a": 4,
+  "b": 5,
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": "",
+  "b": "",
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": 7,
+  "b": 8,
+  "c": 9
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0008/cmd b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0008/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b943d2c79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0008/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --c2j --from test/input/sparsify-input.csv sparsify -f b,c -s 1
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0008/experr b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0008/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0008/expout b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0008/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d7f95feba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-sparsify/0008/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+[
+{
+  "a": 1,
+  "b": 2,
+  "c": 3
+},
+{
+  "a": 4,
+  "b": 5,
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": "",
+  "b": "",
+  "c": ""
+},
+{
+  "a": 7,
+  "b": 8,
+  "c": 9
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-stats1/0001/cmd b/test/cases/verb-stats1/0001/cmd
index 1e5931d0f..93753529c 100644
--- a/test/cases/verb-stats1/0001/cmd
+++ b/test/cases/verb-stats1/0001/cmd
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr --oxtab stats1 -a mean,sum,count,min,max,antimode,mode -f i,x,y test/input/abixy
+mlr --oxtab stats1 -a mean,sum,count,min,max,antimode,mode,mad -f i,x,y test/input/abixy
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-stats1/0001/expout b/test/cases/verb-stats1/0001/expout
index e99cdf2b0..8c52b5166 100644
--- a/test/cases/verb-stats1/0001/expout
+++ b/test/cases/verb-stats1/0001/expout
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ i_min      1
 i_max      10
 i_antimode 1
 i_mode     1
+i_mad      2.50000000
 x_mean     0.45362938
 x_sum      4.53629384
 x_count    10
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ x_min      0.03144188
 x_max      0.75867996
 x_antimode 0.34679014
 x_mode     0.34679014
+x_mad      0.17005656
 y_mean     0.59445424
 y_sum      5.94454242
 y_count    10
@@ -19,3 +21,4 @@ y_min      0.13418874
 y_max      0.97618139
 y_antimode 0.72680286
 y_mode     0.72680286
+y_mad      0.25930133
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-stats1/0018/experr b/test/cases/verb-stats1/0018/experr
index 03f44410a..43dafc363 100644
--- a/test/cases/verb-stats1/0018/experr
+++ b/test/cases/verb-stats1/0018/experr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-mlr stats1: accumulator "nonesuch" not found.
+mlr stats1: accumulator "nonesuch" not found
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-surv/0001/cmd b/test/cases/verb-surv/0001/cmd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d50e07397
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-surv/0001/cmd
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+mlr --csv --from test/input/surv.csv surv -d duration -s status
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-surv/0001/experr b/test/cases/verb-surv/0001/experr
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/test/cases/verb-surv/0001/expout b/test/cases/verb-surv/0001/expout
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9b23a50f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/cases/verb-surv/0001/expout
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+time,survival
+1.00000000,0.80000000
+3.00000000,0.53333333
+5.00000000,0.00000000
diff --git a/test/input/binary.json b/test/input/binary.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9bf2f47be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/input/binary.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+[
+{
+  "msg": "X\u0001\b����\u0012Y"
+}
+]
diff --git a/test/input/pr-1346.csv b/test/input/pr-1346.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6a46e0994
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/input/pr-1346.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+field1,field2
+a,b
+# that was the first record
+c,d
+# that was the second record, and there is no more data
+
diff --git a/test/input/pr-1787.csv b/test/input/pr-1787.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..23b8c638c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/input/pr-1787.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+a,b,c
+1,2,3
+# x"y
+4,5,6
diff --git a/test/input/sparsify-input.csv b/test/input/sparsify-input.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..16916596e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/input/sparsify-input.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+a,b,c
+1,2,3
+4,5,
+,,
+7,8,9
diff --git a/test/input/surv.csv b/test/input/surv.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f025f6a5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/input/surv.csv
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+duration,status
+1,1
+2,0
+3,1
+4,0
+5,1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/input/unflatten-input-2.xtab b/test/input/unflatten-input-2.xtab
index 97b1941e1..21ea4bd2b 100644
--- a/test/input/unflatten-input-2.xtab
+++ b/test/input/unflatten-input-2.xtab
@@ -13,3 +13,8 @@ empty1                      {}
 empty2                      []
 wrapper@empty3              {}
 wrapper@emtpy4              []
+x@y                         1
+@                           2
+x@                          3
+@y                          4
+x@@y                        5
diff --git a/test/input/whitespace 1.csv b/test/input/whitespace 1.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bfde6bfa0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/input/whitespace 1.csv	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+a,b,c
+1,2,3
diff --git a/test/input/whitespace 2.csv b/test/input/whitespace 2.csv
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a9411aa9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/input/whitespace 2.csv	
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+a,b,c
+4,5,6
diff --git a/tools/build-dsl b/tools/build-dsl
index e2a6186d2..4cf70cbf5 100755
--- a/tools/build-dsl
+++ b/tools/build-dsl
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
   fi
 fi
 
-# Build the bin/gocc executable:
-go install github.com/goccmack/gocc
+# Build the bin/gocc executable (use my fork for performance):
+go install github.com/johnkerl/gocc
 go mod tidy
 bingocc="$HOME/go/bin/gocc"
 if [ ! -x "$bingocc" ]; then
diff --git a/xtodo.txt b/xtodo.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index e3dab2ea5..000000000
--- a/xtodo.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-* look at: mr -vvv test/cases/io-spec-tsv/0004/cmd
-
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-
-func (keeper *PercentileKeeper) EmitNamed(name string) *mlrval.Mlrval {
-    if name == "min" {
-        return keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(0.0)
-    } else if name == "p25" {
-        return keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(25.0)
-    } else if name == "median" {
-        return keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(50.0)
-    } else if name == "p75" {
-        return keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(75.0)
-    } else if name == "max" {
-        return keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(100.0)
-
-    } else if name == "iqr" {
-        p25 := keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(25.0)
-        p75 := keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(75.0)
-        if p25.IsNumeric() && p75.IsNumeric() {
-            return bifs.BIF_minus_binary(p75, p25)
-        } else {
-            return mlrval.VOID
-        }
-
-    } else if name == "lof" {
-        p25 := keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(25.0)
-        iqr := keeper.EmitNamed("iqr")
-        if p25.IsNumeric() && iqr.IsNumeric() {
-            return bifs.BIF_minus_binary(p25, bifs.BIF_times(fenceOuterK, iqr))
-        } else {
-            return mlrval.VOID
-        }
-
-    } else if name == "lif" {
-        p25 := keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(25.0)
-        iqr := keeper.EmitNamed("iqr")
-        if p25.IsNumeric() && iqr.IsNumeric() {
-            return bifs.BIF_minus_binary(p25, bifs.BIF_times(fenceInnerK, iqr))
-        } else {
-            return mlrval.VOID
-        }
-
-    } else if name == "uif" {
-        p75 := keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(75.0)
-        iqr := keeper.EmitNamed("iqr")
-        if p75.IsNumeric() && iqr.IsNumeric() {
-            return bifs.BIF_plus_binary(p75, bifs.BIF_times(fenceInnerK, iqr))
-        } else {
-            return mlrval.VOID
-        }
-
-    } else if name == "uof" {
-        p75 := keeper.EmitNonInterpolated(75.0)
-        iqr := keeper.EmitNamed("iqr")
-        if p75.IsNumeric() && iqr.IsNumeric() {
-            return bifs.BIF_plus_binary(p75, bifs.BIF_times(fenceOuterK, iqr))
-        } else {
-            return mlrval.VOID
-        }
-
-    } else {
-        return mlrval.FromError(
-            errors.New(
-                "stats1: unrecognized
-            ),
-        )
-    }
-}