Steve Brett wrote:
don't echo and printf do different jobs ?
as i understand it echo will dump anything to screen, fprint will accept
formatted text args like you owe me %d dollars,$owed_amount) or something
like that.
i kind of use print by itself (harking back to the old days of
print, echo, and printf are all available to help different coders code in
their own style. So if you're used to just using echo in shell, or print
in perl/basic or perhaps printf, in c/c++/java/asp, there you go. Make a
language easy to get stuff out of, and you can have a really quick user
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