--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Spreadsheet_HowTo.tex 2003/08/29 21:08:40 1.1
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Spreadsheet_HowTo.tex 2015/12/26 04:35:17 1.5
@@ -2,19 +2,21 @@
\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}
-\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
-invalid perl statement.
+\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
\texttt{\$variable = 15, 26;} assigns \texttt{\$variable} the value
26. If you need the values to all be displayed, enclose the entire
-cell contents in quotes.
+cell contents in quote marks.