On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 08:45:14PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 18.06.15 10:23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > The parentheses are literal characters, but what do all the ?s > > mean? > > In the manual, section: "30.2. Conditionals" > > Just searching the manual for "$?" gets there quite quickly, without any > knowledge of its existence. > > Erik > I was certain you meant "%?". But to be certain I looked at my "manual.txt" and searched for '$?'. There were tons of them. Yet there were zero '$?' in my "manual.html".
Turns out the original was written with distinctive opening and closing double quotes. When it was converted to the simpler ".txt" version there were no equivalent characters and they both became question marks "?". So everywhere there was <open_quote>$<close_quote> it became ?$? :) Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
