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[eletrofone]

I managed to do it that way:

1″Hello, world!n”;
1″KDB+ – Q Languagen”;
1″/n”;
exit 0;

Is there another way to display a string without quotes?

[dcrossey]

Hi @eletrofone,

As you’ve mentioned, to print strings without the quotes you will need to send the string(s) to the file handle 1 (stdout).

If you to avoid ambiguity with ‘1’ in your code, you could set a variable for re-use e.g.

 

q)stdout:1; 
q)stdout each (("hello";"world"),:"n"); 
hello world // use negative to append newline by default 
q)stdout:neg 1; 
q)stdout ("hello";"world"); 
hello world // note, trailing semi-colon to supress outputting the file handle

 

Please see here for more info: Handles to files and processes | Basics | q and kdb+ documentation – Kdb+ and q documentation (kx.com)

Cheers,

David

[jason_fealy]

negating the handle will append the newline

q)-1"hello, world";
hello, world
q)
q)-1("hello";"world");
hello
world

[dcrossey]

Note on the trailing semi-colon too; this supresses the file handle (1 or -1) being displayed