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From:
Rich Morin
Date:
March 6, 2002 21:09
Subject:
Re: rethinking printf
Message ID:
p05100305b8aca4b08e44@[192.168.254.205]
At 11:24 PM -0500 3/6/02, Uri Guttman wrote:
>.... qn would be just like qq but not allow any
>direct hash interpolations (%foo or %foo{bar}). you can always get those
>with $() if needed. this solves the common case with a minimal of noise
>and the uncommon case has a simple out of using $(). no need for wacko
>ways to put in \n. it is double quotish in all ways but one and mainly
>to be used for printf format strings.
I also like this because it allows a typical format string to be converted
merely by adding a two-character prefix:
printf("The value is %7.2f\n", $foo);
---
printf(qn"The value is %7.2f\n", $foo);
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