The GNU Awk User’s Guide issue

[Mark Quinlan]

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Foreword3

The GNU Awk User’s Guide

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I am new but I have looked at this documentation several times. Shouldn't it 
read > not < ?

the text:


Print the length of the longest line in data:

expand data | awk '{ if (x < length($0)) x = length($0) }
                   END { print "maximum line length is " x }'

Sincerely,
Mark Quinlan