string:left (bug ?!)

[Richard Carlsson]

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Jilani Khaldi wrote:

> string:left("hello", $' ').
>
> The shell editor goes infinitely in input mode. I have to press CTRL-C
> to get back. Is this a bug result or something I ignore?

    ...(..., $' ').
             ^^
             yields the character code for '

    ...(..., $' ').
                ^
                starts a quoted atom, like 'foo'

so to end the atom you must type another ' character. Then you
will get the control back.

To get the character code for SPACE, you can write $\s
or $\040. TAB is $\t or $\011, and so on. For example:

    string:left(String, FieldWidth, $\s).

	/Richard


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