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Non-standard single quotes in book
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empirical |
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Non-standard single quotes in book |
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Sun, 15 Dec 2019 08:43:05 +0700 |
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Cyrus-JMAP/3.1.7-680-g58d4e90-fmstable-20191213v1 |
This is a bug report on the book
GAWK: Effective AWK Programming
A User’s Guide for GNU Awk
Edition 5.0
March, 2019
Arnold D. Robbins
To Arnold Robbins:
Throughout the book the supposed single quotes are not real single quotes: ’ vs
'
As a result, all of the examples in the book fail to work when cut and pasted
to the Linux command line or to a program. The reader is tortured by having to
replace these garbage characters with real single quotes before the examples
will run.
In future editions, please do not torture your readers this way. Use real
single quotes.
- Non-standard single quotes in book,
empirical <=