Re: Non-standard single quotes in book

[arnold]

I  have pushed the fix to the git repo. I sent you a fixed PDF in
private mail, please let me know if it works.  Thanks for the report.

Arnold

address@hidden wrote:

> 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.
>  
>