Why I'm unable to print the string "abc\abc" with povray (at least in this
Solaris compile)?
  If I try this:

#debug "abc\abc"

I get a beep and "abcbc" is printed. Ok, \a is some bell or something like
that.
  Then I thought that it has to be printed this way:

#debug "abc\\abc"

  Same result! A beep and "abcbc" was printed. Strange.
  Then I tried:

#debug "abc\\\abc"

  Now there's no beep but it prints "abc\\abc".

  It seems that I'm unable to print "abc\abc". Is this a bug?

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main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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Probably will have to go with "abc","\","abc".

Bob

"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message news:3944ac59@news.povray.org...
|   Why I'm unable to print the string "abc\abc" with povray (at least in this
| Solaris compile)?
|   If I try this:
|
| #debug "abc\abc"
|
| I get a beep and "abcbc" is printed. Ok, \a is some bell or something like
| that.
|   Then I thought that it has to be printed this way:
|
| #debug "abc\\abc"
|
|   Same result! A beep and "abcbc" was printed. Strange.
|   Then I tried:
|
| #debug "abc\\\abc"
|
|   Now there's no beep but it prints "abc\\abc".
|
|   It seems that I'm unable to print "abc\abc". Is this a bug?

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Bob Hughes wrote:

> Probably will have to go with "abc","\","abc".

Doesn't work - bug? probably

Pabs

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On 12 Jun 2000 05:24:41 -0400 Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>  Why I'm unable to print the string "abc\abc" with povray (at least in this
>Solaris compile)?

  Hi, Warp. I thought I'd go ahead and post what we both agreed was a
'kludge' workaround.

#debug "abc\\ \babc"

  will print the desired "abc\abc" but we agree that the parser seems to
be a little inconsistent in this regard.

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Alan Kong <ako### [at] povrayno-spamorg> wrote:
:   Hi, Warp. I thought I'd go ahead and post what we both agreed was a
: 'kludge' workaround.

: #debug "abc\\ \babc"

  This certainly may work when outputting to stdout (or is it stderr?
whatever), but I wonder what happens if the debug stream is redirected to a
file...

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main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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