StringFormat()

[Rescator]

I think PureBasic would be better served to support:

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Debug "He said \"hello\" to her"
;Output is:
;He said "hello" to her

And

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Debug "He said\r\n \"hello\" to her"
;Outputs is:
;He said
;"hello" to her

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Debug "He said\r\n \"hello\" to \t her"
;Outputs is:
;He said
;"hello" to         her

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Debug "He said\r\n \"hello\" to \t her \\r"
;Outputs is:
;He said
;"hello" to         her \r

(and this is the important part)

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Debug "He said\r\n \"hello\" to \t her \"
;Outputs is:
;He said
;"hello" to         her \

Note that a single \ remains such, important when dealing with file paths for example.

However, PureBasic may benefit much more from a StringFormat() function that supports this,
thus letting normal strings remain such (and fast processing since it's just concatenation),
Thus:

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text$=StringFormat("He said\n\r \"hello\" to \t her \")

Would be the same as doing:

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text$="He said"+#CRLF$+" "+#DQUOTE$+''hello"+#DQUOTE$+" to "+Chr(9)+" her \"

Oh and StringFormat() is just a suggestion on what to call this function.

[helpy]

==> see Format string with some values like sprintf (C) - Update