OK, I'll buy that -- but what exactly is it looking for? It's not just a quoted string that goes over multiple lines -- it's something more like "a multi-line string followed immediately (i.e., no intervening white space) by another string". I poked at the source but it wasn't immediately obvious to me what the condition was.
Jeff On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:58 AM, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote: > > ksh -n tries to do a little more than checking syntax. The single quote > check is intended to catch problems in which a ' is missing by assuming that > quoted strings don't go over multiple lines. It is especially useful > for catching missing quotes when writing scripts. _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
