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| author | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2020-01-19 21:04:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Arnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com> | 2020-01-19 21:04:27 +0200 |
| commit | 6105da2ea4838fe1de8241b1b42d190b48d2fbab (patch) | |
| tree | fe43c03642221a1289858c96c7c0a71b27da3d74 /doc/gawk.texi | |
| parent | 9213378d0e71bdfe4a64daccb210913fdfca9bf6 (diff) | |
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Small doc improvement.
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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index 51bb1d53..5e344e52 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -5425,7 +5425,7 @@ are processed. @cindex @code{\} (backslash) @subentry @code{\/} escape sequence @cindex backslash (@code{\}) @subentry @code{\/} escape sequence @item \/ -A literal slash (necessary for regexp constants only). +A literal slash (should be used for regexp constants only). This sequence is used when you want to write a regexp constant that contains a slash (such as @code{/.*:\/home\/[[:alnum:]]+:.*/}; the @samp{[[:alnum:]]} @@ -5437,7 +5437,7 @@ in order to tell @command{awk} to keep processing the rest of the regexp. @cindex @code{\} (backslash) @subentry @code{\"} escape sequence @cindex backslash (@code{\}) @subentry @code{\"} escape sequence @item \" -A literal double quote (necessary for string constants only). +A literal double quote (should be used for string constants only). This sequence is used when you want to write a string constant that contains a double quote (such as @code{"He said \"hi!\" to her."}). |