--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Spreadsheet_HowTo.tex 2006/08/08 17:47:27 1.3
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Spreadsheet_HowTo.tex 2015/12/26 04:35:17 1.5
@@ -2,16 +2,18 @@
\textbf{Summing up columns}
-To take the sum of column ``M'', for example, use \texttt{\&SUM(``M*'')}\index{SUM}
+To take the sum of column M, for example, use \texttt{\&SUM(`M*')}\index{SUM}
+\noindent
\textbf{Spreadsheet Lists}
+
When you have a list of numbers in a cell, how it is displayed depends
on how you separate the numbers and how Perl interprets the results.
-\textbf{35 45 12} will not generate any result because this is an
+\texttt{35 45 12} will not generate any result because this is an
invalid Perl statement.
-\textbf{35,45,12} will have a result of 12 because Perl has a comma
+\texttt{35,45,12} will have a result of 12 because Perl has a comma
operator similar to the comma operator\index{comma operator} in C.
The comma operator is binary and returns the value on its right. Thus