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From: Dick van Oudheusden <dvoudheus...@gmail.com>Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 02:32:15 -0800 (PST)
Local: Sun 2 Dec 2007 10:32
Subject: Re: RfD: Escaped Strings S\" (version 5)
On 30 Oct, 22:16, Peter Knaggs <pkna...@bournemouth.ac.uk> wrote:
> : parse\" \ caddr len dest -- caddr' len'
> \ *G Parses a string up to an unescaped '"', translating '\'
> \ ** escapes to characters much as C does. The
> \ ** translated string is a counted string at *\i{dest}
> \ ** The supported escapes (case sensitive) are:
> \ *D \a BEL (alert)
> \ *D \b BS (backspace)
> \ *D \e ESC (not in C99)
> \ *D \f FF (form feed)
> \ *D \l LF (ASCII 10)
> \ *D \m CR/LF pair - for HTML etc.
> \ *D \n newline - CRLF for Windows/DOS, LF for Unices
> \ *D \q double-quote
> \ *D \r CR (ASCII 13)
> \ *D \t HT (tab)
> \ *D \v VT
> \ *D \z NUL (ASCII 0)
> \ *D \" "
> \ *D \xAB Two char Hex numerical character value
> \ *D \\ backslash itself
> \ *D \ before any other character represents that character
parse\" ( -- c-addr u)
in this proposal so that programmers can use it for other words, like
.\" and ,\" and so on?
Dick
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