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Charbile
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 Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject: Strings - Special Characters |
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| How do you show the forward slash "\" or quotes in strings? Is there an escape character or some way to append it? |
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Calehay
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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You can use the append ascii command to do that:
| Code: | | append ascii (string ID, ascii char #) |
Replace "string ID" with ID of the string you want to add it to and replace "ascii char #" with the quotation or \'s ascii number. You'll find that number on the lower left of the Edit Font screen.
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Bob the Hamster
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| Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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That is a backslash. This one / is the forward slash.
Anyway, the backslash is the escape character.
For example:
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$0="\"Puppies and Kittens\""
show string(0)
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will produce
| Quote: | | "Puppies and Kittens" |
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$0="C:\\OHRRPGCE\\"
show string(0)
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will produce
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msw188
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 7:34 am Post subject: |
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Wait, are you saying that the backslash \ is the character used to say "treat my next symbol as an ascii, even if it is supposed to be reserved for something else"? I'm sorry, but I have no clue what "escape" character actually means. After trying to figure out your examples for a few minutes, my quote is the best I could come up with.
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Bob the Hamster
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Yes, that is a pretty great summary of what an escape character does.
There are a couple special cases where a backslash followed by a certain character can do something magical. In many programming languages, \n gets translated into ASCII 10 which is a newline. \t gets translated into a TAB and there are a few other common ones.
The OHRRPGCE doesn't support any of those magical "escape codes" in strings, but it probably will someday. Right now all the backslash is used for is to "protect" quotes (and other backslashes) |
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