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From: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>
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Subject: Re: printing a string
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Jim Blandy wrote:
> Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs at st.com> writes:
>>   printf "%s\n", mystring
> 
> (Not 'set print elements'?)

Well, 'set print elements 0' and 'set print repeats 0' gets you some of 
the way there, but line-feeds still get converted to '\n', and if you 
want to print shorter strings with x/s then you'll also need 'set print 
null-stop on' .....

Basically, if you want to see a string as nature intended then printf 
seems to be the easiest way, plus x/s remains useful for viewing the 
contents of the string a different way.

Andrew