Re: 'safe' printing to the terminal

[email protected] (Michiel Beijen) Wed, 13 May 2026 10:46:17 +0000
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
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On Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 at 17:13, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 02:02:21PM +0000, Michiel Beijen wrote:
> > ... I'm partially inclined to see if I can make a CPAN module
> > that implements printf with %q ;-)
> 
> What about %q in core Perl?

Yeah eventually, that would be great! I mean, bash has it but perl doesn't ;-) But then it will be available in the _next_ version of perl, and I think also having a module makes sense.

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Michiel