[Gretl-users] Re: printf for string array
Am 23.04.2025 um 14:33 schrieb Artur T.:
Am 23.04.25 um 13:48 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
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True, but one could just decide to print the array in some way.
Personally, I would go for "vertically".
> ...
Yes, my (not explicitly mentioned before) point is that this is not so
obvious for (most?) users, I would assume. You have to know about the
flatten() function just for a formatted printing of a string array. I
think that can be simplified.
Well, what does "just work" is to do simply:
print S
Of course, that's unformatted printing, but is as simple as it gets. I'd
argue that if people have special formatting needs and are using array
types in their code, it's not too much to ask that they learn a little
how to handle arrays in hansl.
But anyway, I'm certainly not against new features, just saying that
IMHO it's not high priority.
> In the end I don't think that more syntax than that is needed. Note
> also the difference to gretl's specialized %m formatting feature for
> matrix-es: A matrix is 2-dim, so flatten() would mess that up in
> general. In contrast, a strings array is only 1-dim, so no problem.
>
In the best case, there is no need to have another syntactic sugar. By
the way, for a matrix (also an array) you can use the following which
works for any numeric data type (apart from "matrices", I think):
Yeah, that's what I meant. The '%m' I mentioned was rubbish, though.
-s
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