Thanks guys, i was unsure if i should report this issue Get Outlook for Android ________________________________ From: Roman Perepelitsa Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 6:05:32 AM To: Peter Stephenson Cc: Zsh hackers list; joćo marcos pereira bezerra Subject: Re: Issue with string slices 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. Roman.