Re: Documentation nits

[arnold]

Hi.

Thanks for the note. While "quotation mark" may be the official name
of the character, I don't feel that using it necessarily makes the
manual more clear. Instead I have gone through and clarified if
single- or double-quotes re under discussion.

Thanks,

Arnold

Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com> wrote:

> Concerning https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html, valid for
> 5.3.
> (a) Section 4.7.1, 1st paragraph, 1st line:
> s/contains/contain/
> (b) I suggest that this
>    s/double quote/quotation mark/g
> should be applied to the entire document because this is the official name
> of U+0022. It will improve, in particular, Section 4.5.4, Working With
> Comma Separated Value Files, where the duplication of double quotes is
> discussed.
> (c) Regarding 4.7 and the initial note I think that the section need not be
> rewritten; however, it might be extended with suitable notes that (1) it
> does not apply at all if --csv is used, (2) would apply if a non-standard
> variant of CSV needs to be implemented, (3 - optional) it addresses legacy
> code, prior to version 5.3.
>
> Regards
> Wolfgang