On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:06 PM, cdm <cdmclean....@gmail.com> wrote: > > in the terminal: > > julia> a = "i have \$100 ..." > "i have \$100 ..." > > julia> aa = eval(a) > "i have \$100 ..."
^^ FWIW, this is a no-op > > julia> a == aa > true ^^ Which should make this not very surprising. > > julia> b = println(a) > i have $100 ... `println` prints it, and does not return the string it prints > > julia> b == a > false > ^^ Which is why this does not mean anything at all. > > > so, more "stuff" is happening > within the println() function ... No. println/print output the string, show/display prints it as an object and do so in a way that shows more detail about the string itself. Note that the quote isn't part of the string either so it shouldn't be surprising that the character `$` is printed as `\$` when showing a quoted string. > >
