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print built-in doesn't print this.

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From: "jdh" <dhenman@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: print built-in doesn't print this.
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 11:19:57 -0800
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/27339>
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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

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