At 1:38 PM +0000 5/16/02, Joe Yates (via RT) wrote:
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>Dear all,
>
>In parrot code, I'm trying to print the following string:
>
>       \0
>
>I.e. the output of the perl instruction
>
>       print "\\0";
>
>It's getting treated as a string terminator.
>
>See attached test.
>
>Am I escaping incorrectly, or is it incorrect treatment of "\0" at some point?

We're using printf to print, so it's taking the null as a string 
terminator. This'll be fixed when we've got the Parrot IO support 
rolled out.
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                                         Dan

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