... is anyone's guess. And that is a travesty. I will admit that the oxford comma is not always a necessary component of a clearly understood sentence. The following sentence, for example, is simple enough to ... more aesthetic sentence structure. Why wouldn't everyone consistently use the Oxford comma? The unfortunate thing is that, sadly, not everyone sees it that way. People omit ...

... the contract and the millions of dollars at stake all came down to one point -- the second comma in the sentence. Had it not been there, the right to cancel wouldn't have applied to the first five years of the contract and ... it now faces. "Based on the rules of punctuation," the comma in question "allows for the termination of the at any time, without cause, upon one-year's ...

... comma: I went to the store to buy oatmeal, milk, and cookies. Without the serial comma: I went to the store to buy oatmeal, milk and cookies. There are arguments to be made for ... about the piece — the headline summarizes it well enough. But reader Jon brings it to my attention because of the comma issue. Here’s a direct quotation from the piece. The lack of a serial comma gives ...

... hit me. The lyrics are cryptic, like most of their lyrics. I’m not sure what an Oxford comma (great title, by the way) has to do with coal or chapstick. But who cares when it sounds this ... your diction dripping with disdain Through the pain I always tell the truth Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma? I climbed to dharamsala too, I did I met the highest lama His accent sounded fine ...

If you’re having trouble with format-number function in XSLT data view – it’s probably because of decimal comma. The server returns data with decimal comma, and the format-number function works with decimal dot. The workaround is to translate the values (in the example above the @NumberField represents the internal name of the field that ...

I'm working on learning how a particular script works. The script imports a comma-delimited text file, and outputs the contents to an HTML table. The file contains a name field, i.e., "Doe, John" (with comma). The CSV files are comma-delimited, so I cannot use another character for the delimiter. Is there a solution to this? Thanks, Dave