RE: FW: Manual, ch. 6.2 The Two Flavors of Variables, section simply expanded.. controlled leading whitespace, page 63

[DUDZIAK Krzysztof]

Sorry for my typo, it should read 'quote'.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Smith [mailto:paul@mad-scientist.net] 
Sent: Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2020 19:38
To: DUDZIAK Krzysztof <krzysztof.dudziak@thalesgroup.com>; bug-make@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FW: Manual, ch. 6.2 The Two Flavors of Variables, section simply 
expanded.. controlled leading whitespace, page 63

On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 17:45 +0000, DUDZIAK Krzysztof wrote:
> example
>   dir := /foo/bar    # directory to put the frobs in
> vs. 
> paragraph 1 text
>   Here the value of the variable dir is '/foo/bar    ' (with four
> trailing spaces)
> 
> Trailing spaces in front of closing quota or behind?  I see four
> trailing spaces on right side of closing quote character.  Which
> function in that elaboration has space on left side of quota-
> closing character?

I don't understand the question.  By "quota" do you mean "quote", as in
the single quote characters before and after the value string?

The value of the variable is the characters inside the quotes (that is,
the string /foo/bar plus four spaces).  The quotes aren't part of the
value; this variable doesn't have any quotes in it.  They're in the
documentation in order to show which characters are part of the value.