http://software-lab.de/doc/ref.html#symbol
"Control characters can be written with a preceding hat '^' character." You probably want to escape it: : (prinl "hello \^ world") hello ^ world -> "hello \^ world" -Michel On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Chris Double <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the special magic that ^ does in strings? If I do the following: > > (prinl "hello ^ world") > > Then only "hello " is printed. If I read using (read) a string > containing '^' it is similarly truncated. > > -- > http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz > -- > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe >
