On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Dan Shelton
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30 May 2012 01:31, David Korn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> cc: [email protected] [email protected]
>> [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Re: Re: [ast-developers] RFE: Extend ksh93 printf %q to accept
>> modifiers
>> --------
>>
>> I have added %(html)q and %(url)q to the next release.
>
> I think there was a misunderstanding for using %(...)q for egrep
There's not a standard or specification for %(...)q so there's no
misunderstanding here. I personally like the way %(ere)q and
%(pattern)q work. :)
> expressions and similar things. The goal was to QUOTE strings that
> they retain any all characters in the target format in their literal
> meaning and not to CONVERT them like the current implementation for
> %(ere)q does.
> As an example, %(ere)q should quote special characters like (, ), [,
> ], {, }, \ with a preceding backslash so they are retain their literal
> meaning:
>
> printf '%(ere)q' 'hello(world)'
> hello\(world\)
>
> %(csv)q, %(html)q and %(url)q work as expected but %(pattern)q and
> %(ere)q need to be changed to just quote the values and not convert
> them into something different.
They're not converted to something different. They're converted to
another form which means the same.
>
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