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| author | Hans Bolinder <[email protected]> | 2018-06-04 13:58:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Hans Bolinder <[email protected]> | 2018-06-07 08:43:20 +0200 |
| commit | 380af78843891b0994f625d392fad674c1bc4fef (patch) | |
| tree | 89667fe524d1343727adbe9af929b38ce748a650 /lib/stdlib/doc | |
| parent | 9ae2044073e6433030ce30756658b103ce67c3c1 (diff) | |
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stdlib: Make pP insert no line breaks with field width zero
See also https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-607.
A zero field width used to insert line breaks "everywhere", but with
this patch no line breaks are inserted.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/stdlib/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml | 17 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml index f1037ec76b..d4a2713840 100644 --- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml +++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/io.xml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <erlref> <header> <copyright> - <year>1996</year><year>2017</year> + <year>1996</year><year>2018</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -332,11 +332,22 @@ Here T = [{attributes,[[{id,age,1.5}, {tag,{'PRIVATE',3}}, {mode,implicit}] ok</pre> + + <p>As from Erlang/OTP 21.0, a field width of value + <c>0</c> can be used for specifying that a line is + infinitely long, which means that no line breaks + are inserted. For example:</p> + + <pre> +5> <input>io:fwrite("~0p~n", [lists:seq(1, 30)]).</input> +[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30] +ok</pre> + <p>When the modifier <c>l</c> is specified, no detection of printable character lists takes place, for example:</p> <pre> -5> <input>S = [{a,"a"}, {b, "b"}].</input> -6> <input>io:fwrite("~15p~n", [S]).</input> +6> <input>S = [{a,"a"}, {b, "b"}], + io:fwrite("~15p~n", [S]).</input> [{a,"a"}, {b,"b"}] ok |