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Re: `printf %q` but more human readable
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Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev |
Subject: |
Re: `printf %q` but more human readable |
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Sun, 14 Mar 2021 15:54:48 +0100 |
well yes, two things
1) gawk is a data processing language
but yes it should be internal
bash has it partly
if array elements contain \34 it ( declare -p ) shows $'..' otherwise its
double quoted, .. yet i havent seen no quotes usage yet
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 3:52 PM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
wrote:
> sounds to me like a [too] big thing to code
> a tokenizer to internal codes then to output format
>
> On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 3:48 PM Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/14/21, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > about self coding a solution, i started in gawk, but question: do you
>> want
>> > \t and \n be shortened or printed
>>
>> I am not sure. That is where the ambiguity comes from. It will depend
>> on the real usage. If the string's main purpose is to show tab and
>> newline explicitly, then they should be encoded in an escaped form,
>> but if the main purpose is not to show them, then they should not be
>> escaped. But this is context-dependent. So it may need some trial and
>> error to be sure which choice is the best. Or it may need to
>> empirically determine which is the case based on the content of the
>> whole string.
>>
>> > and only \34 codes be placed in $' .. '
>> > otherwise " " otherwise no quotes
>>
>> It is more than these three cases. '' is also useful in certain cases.
>> Also, sometimes, splitting the whole string into segments and use a
>> different style for each segment may also improve readability.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peng
>>
>
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, (continued)
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/03/14
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/03/14
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Peng Yu, 2021/03/14
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Marco Ippolito, 2021/03/14
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/03/14
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Marco Ippolito, 2021/03/14
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/03/14
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Pier Paolo Grassi, 2021/03/15
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Peng Yu, 2021/03/14
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/03/14
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- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/03/14
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Peng Yu, 2021/03/14
- Re: `printf %q` but more human readable, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev, 2021/03/14