Re: BUG? - 4.0.2 - parameter substitution won't double backslashes in values

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Derek Peschel wrote:
> I want to write the elements of $dirstack out to a file, separated by
> newlines.  If an element in $dirstack contains a newline, I want to write
> a backslash before the newline in the file.  Parameter substitution
> managed that:
> 
> print ${dirstack[0]/
> /\\\\
> }
>...

I haven't looked at this in detail, but you might be coming a bit unstuck
by using `print' instead of `print -r'.  The latter will avoid interpreting
the backslashes at that point, which is almost certainly closer to what you
want.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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