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Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:55 pm**

That way we could do something like

msg.s = "Hello\nThere!"

instead of having to do

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msg.s = "Hello" + Chr(13) + Chr(10) + "There!"

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:01 pm**

Yes, this would be good! I like those Escape squences, also for TABS, ....

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:08 pm**

So all filenames must be written like this: "C:\\Program Files\\..." brrr!

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:23 pm**

I personally don't think that's a good idea.
For users, maybe. But not for programmers...

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:27 pm**

I like verbatim strings as found in C# ....

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string s=@"bla bla bla c:\folder\file.ext
and I can continue on next line 
and another line ";

Ok, the @ is used for getting the address. In PB we just need to find another character.

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:37 pm**

freak wrote:So all filenames must be written like this: "C:\\Program Files\\..." brrr!

and URL: "http:////www.purebasic.com//index.html"

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:24 pm**

ts-soft wrote:and URL: "http:////www.purebasic.com//index.html"

lol no, why do you think that?

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:52 pm**

msg.s = "This is useful\nPlease add this

"

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:55 pm**

Tipperton wrote:That way we could do something like
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msg.s = "Hello\nThere!"
instead of having to do
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msg.s = "Hello" + Chr(13) + Chr(10) + "There!"

Just do like me!

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msg.s = "Hello"+#LF$+"There!"

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:55 pm**

No I don't want it.

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msg.s = "Hello" + #CRLF$ + "There!"

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:02 pm**

Maybe as a compiler option?

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:03 pm**

Trond wrote:No I don't want it.

Agreed.

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:10 pm**

SCRJ wrote:Maybe as a compiler option?

That's even worse! It should be EnableEscape and DisableEscape in the source file.

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:10 am**

I must say that sometimes escape sequences are useful.

but a simple procedure do the trick.

pb team might include this function as an optimized one - something like that :

String$ = EscapeString(EscapedString$)

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Procedure.s EscapeString(string.s) ; purebasic function (in string library)
  string = ReplaceString(string, "\\", "\")
  string = ReplaceString(string, "\t", #TAB$)
  string = ReplaceString(string, "\n", #CRLF$)
  ProcedureReturn string
EndProcedure

Macro esc(string) ; user defined
  EscapeString(string)
EndMacro

MessageRequester("", esc("*\tHello\t\t*\n*\tThere!\t\t*"))
MessageRequester("", esc("C:\\Program Files\\PureBasic\\"))

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:16 am**

2Flype: Khe-khm... Try this: "\\no problems ?"

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