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| author | Tim Allen <screwtape@froup.com> | 2022-10-20 23:02:25 +1100 |
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| committer | Tim Allen <screwtape@froup.com> | 2022-10-20 23:02:25 +1100 |
| commit | 7b095a646536d78c7ee9d16c83298e51c5c79a72 (patch) | |
| tree | 76463fa2d2c6ed471e17e1b906c9bfd81e417dc9 /doc | |
| parent | cb33918fa2347746d462689bfbeb683392bfc896 (diff) | |
command-parsing: Link to Balanced Strings when we mention that section.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pages/command-parsing.asciidoc | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pages/command-parsing.asciidoc b/doc/pages/command-parsing.asciidoc index bd585292..9ab82abf 100644 --- a/doc/pages/command-parsing.asciidoc +++ b/doc/pages/command-parsing.asciidoc @@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ prompt, are parsed according to the following rules: == Quoted Strings If a word starts with `'`, `"`, or `%X` with `X` a _non-nestable_ punctuation -character (see below for nestable characters), it is parsed as a quoted -string whose delimiter is, respectively, `'`, `"`, or `X`. +character (see <<command-parsing#balanced-strings,Balanced Strings>> below for +nestable characters), it is parsed as a quoted string whose delimiter is, +respectively, `'`, `"`, or `X`. A quoted string contains every character (including whitespaces). Doubling a closing delimiter escapes it. Thus, for example, entering two closing |