On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 02:17:22PM -0500, Markus Pueschel wrote to GAP-forum: > Hello, > > I have the following problem (GAP3). When printing a > long string to a file using the function PrintTo, the > string is broken at a certain length and a "\" is inserted. > It looks like: (this was a single string) > > 246810121416182022242628303234363840424446485052545658606264666870727476788082\ > 848688909294969810010210410610811011211411611812012212412612813013213413613814\ > 014214414614815015215415615816016216416616817017217417617818018218418618819019\ > 2194196198200 > > How can I avoid the line-breaking or at least the insertion of > backslashes?
Dear Markus,
There is the switch -x with which you can set the length of lines before
GAP inserts a \ and a linebreak. If you have some idea of an upper limit
on the length of your strings this should do you e.g. start GAP with
gap -x 1024
(and this is available in GAP3).
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