Haskell: Show screwed up?

Question

The show function in Haskell doesn\'t seem to do what it should:

Prelude> let str = \"stack\\n\\noverflow\"
Prelude> putStrLn str
stack


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Answer 1

I'm not really sure the point in what your trying to do. It would help if you clarified a bit. Show is doing what it is supposed to do. Show simply produces a string containing what it was shown.