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Re: Can format procedure output unquoted strings?


From: Mark H Weaver
Subject: Re: Can format procedure output unquoted strings?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:38:49 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)

"Whitlock, Bradley D" <address@hidden> writes:
> I am trying to get the format procedure to behave like the display
> procedure where it will not surround output to stdout with quotes

Use "~A" in the format string, which formats the corresponding argument
like `display', whereas "~S" formats like `write'.  For example:

  (format #t "The value is ~A~%" "test") outputs: The value is test
  (format #t "The value is ~S~%" "test") outputs: The value is "test"

     Mark



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