Re: [Groff] [Heirloom] bug in '.if' string comparison tests

[Keith Marshall]

On 03/09/14 20:12, Carsten Kunze wrote:
>> I've recently seen the usage of the ^G character as field
>> separator. That is a good idea, since it should avoid most
>> possible conflicts with user input. But does anyone know
>> what does this character means, and why does it seems to be
>> prefered to other control characters ?
> 
> Maybe to avoid problems with strings which contain ' or ".
> ' as separator is much better readable....

Agreed, but to answer the first part of the OP's question, ^G is the
ASCII BEL code; i.e. the code sent to ring the bell on a teletype.

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Regards,
Keith.