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Suggestion for pretty_print()

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Dec 02, 2005
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Hello Rob,

the following code snippet:

include misc.e
constant text =
               {
                 "This is\tline 1.\n",
                 "Here comes\tline 2.\n"
               }
pretty_print(1, text, {3})

prints (Eu 2.5):
{
  {'T','h','i','s',' ','i','s',9,'l','i','n','e',' ','1','.',10},
  {'H','e','r','e',' ','c','o','m','e','s',9,'l','i','n','e',' ','2','.',
10}
}

But using the option {3}, pretty_print IMHO should output a string
_whenever possible_. Of course sometimes it's not possible, but special
characters that may be entered using a back-slash (as described in
refman_2.htm#char), should be displayed by pretty_print() in the same
way, and not cause an output as shown above. The output in this case
should be identical to the data, i.e.
{
  "This is\tline 1.\n",
  "Here comes\tline 2.\n"
}

Regards,
   Juergen