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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Symbol pronunciation (Re: awk comments)
Keywords: awk #
Message-ID: <1991May1.152841.27968@mccc.edu>
Date: 1 May 91 15:28:41 GMT
References: <751@uswnvg.UUCP> <3896@dali> <1991Apr30.085700.10664@grep.co.uk>
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In article <1991Apr30.085700.10664@grep.co.uk> vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) writes:
=In article <3896@dali> icsu7039@attila.cs.montana.edu (Spannring) writes:
=>>In article <6188@flint4.UUCP>, tang@motcid.UUCP (Sam D. Tang) writes:
=>> How does one add comments to an awk program?
=>You use the pound sign (#) for a comment.
=
=This hasn't been mentioned for a while so thought I'd resurrect it.
=
=The # has several ``names''. Octothorpe, pound, mesh, hash are just a few.

Isn't "sharp" pretty universal?  "Hash" does nothing for me.  ;-)

Pete
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