escape characters in strings and text objects

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ErikG
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escape characters in strings and text objects

Postby ErikG » Wed Dec 09, 2015 5:14 am

Hi,

Is it possible to include escape characters such as tabs or line breaks in strings that will be treated as such in a text object. For instance:

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%s = "X" + "\t" + "Y"
text MytextObject
MyTextObject.append %s


My aim is that the text object should then contain X and Y with a tab inbetween.

Thanks,
Erik. (up to date version)

johansamuelsson
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Re: escape characters in strings and text objects

Postby johansamuelsson » Wed Dec 09, 2015 5:24 am

Hi, for example

WfCreate u 1
%s = "X" + @Chr(09) + "Y"
%s2 = "X" + @Chr(10) + "Y"
Text MytextObject
MyTextObject.append %s
MyTextObject.append %s2

ASCII table: http://www.theasciicode.com.ar/

Regards Johan

ErikG
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Re: escape characters in strings and text objects

Postby ErikG » Thu Dec 10, 2015 4:55 am

Thanks Johan! :D


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