From 6105da2ea4838fe1de8241b1b42d190b48d2fbab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Arnold D. Robbins" Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 21:04:27 +0200 Subject: Small doc improvement. --- doc/gawk.texi | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/gawk.texi') 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."}). -- cgit v1.2.3