On Sunday, 2 January 2022 at 17:27:53 UTC, Amit wrote:
Hi!
I would like to print a string in the same format that I would
write it in the code (with quotes and with special characters
escaped). Similar to [Go's %q
format](https://pkg.go.dev/fmt#hdr-Printing). Is there a safe,
built-in way to do that?
For example:
```
string s = "one \"two\"\nthree four";
writeln(/* ??? */);
```
And get as output
```
"one \"two\"\nthree four"
```
Instead of
```
one "two"
three four
```
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"]
```
