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From: Norbert Zeh <norbert.zeh@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: print built-in doesn't print this.
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 15:27:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0BF7A901-17AD-4E2E-9AB8-1D66FD1710F7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211114111957.4514@sachi>

Print seems to parse the ‘-----------------‘ as command line options, which you can test using “print ‘------------------0’”.  If you type “print -- ‘-----------------‘“, you get the result you want.

Cheers,

Norbert Zeh
norbert.zeh@gmail.com



> On Nov 14, 2021, at 3:19 PM, jdh <dhenman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie.
> 
> I wanted to insert a string of '-'s to visually show a change in a list.
> But  I found out that
> 
>     print "--------"
> 
> Does not print anything out. Well maybe a \n.
> Is this intentional?  Or a well known feature?
> 
> DH
> 



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-14 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-14 19:19 jdh
2021-11-14 19:27 ` Norbert Zeh [this message]
2021-11-14 19:29 ` Peter Stephenson
2021-11-15  5:30   ` Mikael Magnusson
2021-11-15 16:31   ` Bart Schaefer
2021-11-15 16:46     ` Peter Stephenson
2021-11-14 19:29 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-11-14 19:33 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-11-14 21:20 ` zzapper
2021-11-15  9:50 ` zzapper

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