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Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] The minus fence alone
Date: Monday, 24 Feb 2020, 07:33:31


    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > When I use a + alone as the Fi argument, it will add the Ti to the
    > beginning of the line, but if I use a - character alone as the Fi, the
    > Staff solution breaks and will not return anything. Is this normal or
    > should there be functionality where a lone - adds the Ti to the end of the
    > line?

If Fi is -, and the lower case flag is n, r, or s, then
the result is an infinite loop that strwrs need not
detect.  However, if the flag is q, then Hwk3/strwrs
stops after the first substitution.

Using the -v flag reveals this behavior.

--Stan-
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