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Problem with newlines with AppendToNotepad
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Posted by
| Merseberger
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| Sat 22 May 2010 06:47 AM (UTC) |
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| Hi all,
I am trying to use the Notepad functionality of LUA for the first time, and have run into an issue which I have not been able to figure out.
When I try to begin a newline with \r\n in my code, such as with
AppendToNotepad("Stats", "Here are some Stats\r\nHere are some more stats")
I get this error
Compile error
World: Aardwolf
Immediate execution
[string "Alias: "]:7: unfinished string near '"Here are some Stats'
If I remove the \r\n it works great, but I can't get a newline.
Is there something I'm missing to get this to work?
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Posted by
| Twisol
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| Reply #1 on Sat 22 May 2010 06:59 AM (UTC) |
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| I assume this is in the Send box of an alias, trigger, or other thing, not in a loose script. MUSHclient preprocesses that text, converting all escape sequences and replacing %1, %2 etc with the matched text, and @var1, @var2 etc with the associated MUSHclient variable contents. So you need your escape sequences to be able to survive that intact.
After being processed, \n becomes a newline. But what becomes \n after being processed? \\n does. So you should use \\r\\n instead, when your code is being evaluated in a Send box. |
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