On 8/5/10 2:56 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > Couldn't you have limited to single quotes -- reserving to them the > function of literalizing what is between them.
No. That's not the difference between single and double quotes. Why would I complicate things further? > Otherwise, could you think other characters you'd prefer to use to > group words separated by white-space, together to be matched in a pattern? And introduce another special character or two? Thank you, no. > Or, why should double quotes be functionally the same as single quotes > in that situation? Why should they not? Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/