1. command_line() is smarter than I thought
I was writing a short program to prepend text to each line of
STDIN and write it to STDOUT.
ex prepend ABC <example1 >example2
Worked fine until I had to prepend a space character, I'd always
assumed that a command line like...ex prepend " " would result
in a command_line() return value of 4 sequences, the 3rd and 4th
being speech marks. But I was wrong.
ex prepend "ABC " <example1 >example2
return value 3 of command_line() is {65,66,67,32}
ex prepend " " <example1 >example2
return value 3 of command_line() is {32}
I didn't have to modify the program after all.
Matthew McNamara _
mat at iconz.co.nz o( )
The Internet Company of New Zealand / /\
