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Re: Printf builtin missing v flag support

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From: Eric Cook <llua@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Printf builtin missing v flag support
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:55:41 -0500
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On 12/31/2015 02:16 AM, Starms, William Albert (MU-Student) wrote:

> Is this just a feature that nobody noticed/cared about, or was there a reason for its omission? I couldn’t find anything on the subject, but I may just be bad at googling. I know printf can just be run in a subshell and captured, but forking for this seems like overkill, I say without any knowledge of the zsh backend.

You can avoid the overhead of a subshell with something like
% print -zf 'hello %s\n' foo;read -zr var; typeset -p var
typeset var=foo

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