Hi David,
actually ⎕PW works quite differently than its output suggests. Just
resetting
the print position after \n works for simple text vectors but not for
text matrices,
mixed values or nested values.
My proposal would rather be to use FILE_IO[22] (aka *printf()*) in your
use case:
* (⊂"hello world\nnext line\n") FILE_IO[22] 1**
**hello world**
**next line**
**22**
*
I could also add a "boxing" function to dyadic ⎕CR or to FILE_IO that
converts
strings containing \n to nested vectors of strings. I believe that the
traditional
APL format of text matrices is less suitable for longer texts and that
nested vectors
of strings should be used for that.
/// Jürgen
On 05/25/2014 03:43 AM, David B. Lamkins wrote:
Enhancement request: Can quad-PW be made aware of newlines?
Use case: I'd like to dump a text file to the screen using FILEIO[26],
which (for a text file) returns a blob of text containing embedded
newlines. Emitting a newline to the session display does not reset the
print position. The session adds an additional APL wrap (newline plus
indent) every quad-PW characters even though the newlines in the text
keep the display well withing the quad-PW limits.
