Printing a quoted string
Amit
a at a.a
Sun Jan 2 21:16:55 UTC 2022
On Sunday, 2 January 2022 at 19:26:50 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote:
> as a hack I always do:
> ```d
> writeln([s]);
> ```
> because arrays get serialized like D strings, there will be
> additional `[` and `]` though.
>
> Sample output:
> ```
> ["Hello there \"uwu\" ``\x1B[Dabc\n"]
> ```
On Sunday, 2 January 2022 at 19:37:38 UTC, JG wrote:
> Also a bit of a hack.
>
> ```
> import std.stdio : writeln;
> import std.format : format;
>
>
> void main()
> {
> string s = "one \"two\"\nthree four";
> writeln(format("%(%s%)",[s]));
>
> }
> ```
Yes! That's what I needed.
I wrapped it in a function like so:
```d
string quote(string s) {
return format("%s", [s])[1 .. $ - 1];
}
unittest {
assert(quote("one \"two\"\nthree four") == `"one
\"two\"\nthree four"`);
}
```
Thanks for your responses ^_^
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