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Strings & Newline characters

07-18-2002, 01:47 AM#1
Guest
Simple question I hope.

How do you embed newline characters in a string?

I want to be able to do something like this:

Set SomeTextVar = This is line #1.\nThis is line #2.

In C/C++ \n is a newline character. I need to know how to embed a newline char in a WC3 string so that it displays as two lines during cinematic playback:

Cinematic Send Transmission ... and displays SomeTextVar ...

Anybody run into this one yet?
07-18-2002, 03:23 AM#2
littlecramp
almost the same except |(direction pipe) is used
nextline |n
07-18-2002, 05:28 AM#3
Guest
Excellent. Works like a charm!

Curious as to how did you discovered that? I did a quick hexdump but the map files look encrypted.

Is there a list somewhere of all the embedded characters?

Thanks for the quick response!
07-18-2002, 06:22 AM#4
dataangel
Well, just a guess I but I bet littlecramp saw it in the campaign maps somewhere.

Generally war3 uses the pipe instead of the slash for all the special characters. The other ones I know of are |cXXXXXX where the x's are an HTML color code, and |r, which stops text from being colored.