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Re: print built-in doesn't print this.

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From: Norbert Zeh <norbert.zeh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: print built-in doesn't print this.
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 15:27:57 -0400
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/users/27340>
In-reply-to: <20211114111957.4514@sachi>
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References: <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@xxxxxxxxx

> On Nov 14, 2021, at 3:19 PM, jdh <dhenman@xxxxxxxxx> 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
>

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