On Thursday, 28 November, 2019 09:21, Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote:
>\n and \t are not 'printf' features, but C string features, that \ is an >escape introducer for compiling a string, and if followed by a letter >like n or t it builds a string with the special value represented by >that function. The \n does NOT make it into the string itself, only the >code for a newline. You are not typing your line into a C compiler, but >the sqlite shell program, so it build strings differently. As far as I know the only place that the \ escape introducer is parsed in SQLite3 is in the arguments to the dot commands in the CLI. This is so, for example, one may use commands like: .seperator \t \n otherwise you would not be able to set the seperator characters to non-printable characters. Note that for that particular case the CLI is a "presentation" layer tool, so one would expect that behaviour. Otherwise, SQLite3 is not a "presentation" layer tool but rather a "data storage" layer tool and as such does not muck about with data that it is given or returns. -- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
