From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
To: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
Cc: "Peter Stephenson" <p.stephenson@samsung.com>,
"Zsh hackers list" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>,
"joão marcos pereira bezerra" <marcospb19@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Issue with string slices
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:12:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190618181200.xrvhk7iheaij65dk@chaz.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMraKuGp0=Rs839sD+BdGhpo6kmpoeL9+kRy4_gOJ53-wA@mail.gmail.com>
2019-06-17 11:05:32 +0200, Roman Perepelitsa:
> To print $something as is, use one of these forms:
>
> echo -nE - "$something"
> print -nr -- "$something"
> printf '%s' "$something"
>
> The first two are ZSH specific, the last is portable. ZSH also allows
> you to omit quotes here unless SH_WORD_SPLIT option is set.
[...]
The second one comes from ksh, it's not zsh-specific and
predates POSIX, let alone POSIX's printf, but nowadays is not as
portable as printf.
If you want to target zsh and ksh only, "print" may be more
desirable as there are still some pdksh derivatives where printf
is not built-in.
"unless SH_WORD_SPLIT *or GLOB_SUBST* is set"
--
Stephane
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-19 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2019-06-17 8:36 ` joão marcos pereira bezerra
2019-06-17 8:51 ` Peter Stephenson
2019-06-17 9:05 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-06-17 16:15 ` joão marcos pereira bezerra
2019-06-18 18:12 ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
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