Re: finding keys in a table

["Alex Davies" <alex.mania@...>]

It's funny you mentioned it though, because the first time it did that to me 
I was surprised too. I'm guessing it's because it's easier to print that 
way. Imagine reading the output of an escaped 100kB text file otherwise. It 
definitely doesn't modify the strings \n's to the host systems variants - 
that would be counterproductive. (I check lstrlib just to be sure)

- Alex

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Rogers" <rogers@innocon.com>

> It seems like using "\n" would give an exact representation of the
> string even if it is written to a file that is shared between machines
> with different line termination characteristics. My experience with this
> sort of thing is that there was a reason for it, but the only reason I
> can come up with (allowing multi-line quoted strings) is easily
> dismissed by using '[['.
>
> Is it done this way explicitly so it can automatically pick up the
> LF/CR+LF of the host system when the string is re-read?