\\ and \, the harbingers of doom

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\\ and \, the harbingers of doom

Postby Darvin on Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:43 pm

Link to dev blog

Missed this one when it went up and only saw it now (there's also a verbatim post for extra pixels)


Your problem with \n is that you're double-dipping. In your external data file, you're using the "new line" delimiter to represent a new data entry, while once imported you are using the "new line" to represent a new line of text within the same data entry. Because of this you've effectively mandated some sort of arbitrary mapping to resolve the fact that "new line" has a different meaning in the two contexts. You'd need to change the layout of your text file to resolve the issue cleanly, which from the sounds of things is not a box you want to reopen at this point. The best solution would be tags to represent the bounds of text bodies, and then treating new lines as new lines.
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Re: \\ and \, the harbingers of doom

Postby Lujo on Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:56 pm

I whish this forum had the "Like" function, so I can approve both of the devs blog post and you reposting it here without inflating my post count or spamming my name all over the place, but anyway my support is here :)
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Re: \\ and \, the harbingers of doom

Postby dislekcia on Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:54 pm

Yeah, we have a string token system already in place to handle colouring. There's just a new token that looks like "\\n" now :)
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Re: \\ and \, the harbingers of doom

Postby Aequitas on Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:40 am

@Darvin Oh, I know exactly what the problem is. I just thought you'd all find the tragic tale amusing and maybe slightly enlightening :P
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