Newline Character in Strings

02-27-2009, 11:47 PM	#1
ShadowWolf	Can string variables not have newline characters in them? Usually in wc3, '\|n' (usually '\n' in programming languages) will cause a new line, but it isn't working in string variables. Is there a way to do this, and why doesn't \|n work?

02-27-2009, 11:54 PM	#2
Bobo_The_Kodo	Its \n not \|n

02-28-2009, 12:06 AM	#3
ShadowWolf	...but in the object editor it's '\|n'... omgwtfxbbq. edit: '\n' doesn't work either.

02-28-2009, 12:35 AM	#4
akolyt0r	just make a new line... JASS: local string text = "This text consists of 3 lines"

02-28-2009, 12:44 AM	#5
ShadowWolf	Can't be a local, it's a string array that I assign at map init and then reference periodically throughout the map. So there's no way to do this in GUI? That's dumb.

02-28-2009, 01:11 AM	#6
akolyt0r	did some testing ... "\n" works ... but GUI converts it to "\\n" so you will have to use custom script to accomplish your task ...better than nothing ;) Trigger: Actions Custom script: set udg_SomeString = "This Text is Followed by a Linebreak \n See ??"

02-28-2009, 01:13 AM	#7
Captain Griffen	GUI you can just do it without \n at all...

02-28-2009, 01:22 AM	#8
Bobo_The_Kodo	call BJDebugMsg( "Yes\nIt\nWorks" )

02-28-2009, 01:45 AM

Strilanc

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShadowWolf

...but in the object editor it's '|n'... omgwtfxbbq.

edit: '\n' doesn't work either.

Use ctrl+enter in the object editor for actual line breaks.

02-28-2009, 03:54 AM

#10

ShadowWolf

That's really strange.

Trigger:

Using custom script, the \n works, but using the GUI's set variable function, it doesn't (even though when converted they're the same exact thing)
+1 for JASS

02-28-2009, 03:58 AM	#11
Vexorian	The GUI part probably automatically converts "\n" to "\\n"