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diff --git a/doc/gawk.texi b/doc/gawk.texi index a1781700..4da01e05 100644 --- a/doc/gawk.texi +++ b/doc/gawk.texi @@ -7801,10 +7801,12 @@ is so-called @dfn{comma-separated values} (CSV) data. Many spreadsheet programs, for example, can export their data into text files, where each record is terminated with a newline, and fields are separated by commas. If only commas separated the data, there wouldn't be an issue. The problem comes when -one of the fields contains an @emph{embedded} comma. Although there is no -formal standard specification for CSV data,@footnote{At least, we don't know of one.} -in such cases, most programs embed the field in double quotes. So we might -have data like this: +one of the fields contains an @emph{embedded} comma. +In such cases, most programs embed the field in double quotes.@footnote{The +CSV format lacked a formal standard definition for many years. +@uref{http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt, RFC 4180} +standardizes the most common practices.} +So we might have data like this: @example @c file eg/misc/addresses.csv |