escape charactors for Blitz strings?

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Craig H. Nisbet (Posted 2007) [#1]

Hey, Do you guys know what the escape charactors are that will allow me to print quotes within a sting in blitz?

jfk EO-11110 (Posted 2007) [#2]

print "like this: " + chr$(34) + " ??" If so, then you need an ascii table.

Craig H. Nisbet (Posted 2007) [#3]

That's it! Thanks a bunch!

Jellon (Posted 2008) [#4]

I tried this and it doesn't work for a newline or a tab. instead it spits out this funky looking E thing. Anyway to tell it to insert a tab or a new line (other than giving the print command a void string)?

Dreamora (Posted 2008) [#5]

A newline on windows is CHR(10)+chr(13) not a single one. and no, there are no escape characters in Blitz3D, use an ascii table and CHR

Beaker (Posted 2008) [#6]

Newline etc don't work for the Text command.

_33 (Posted 2008) [#7]

Adding ANSI to Blitz3D is not impossible. I have written an ANSI parser myself, but I also wrote a 2D on 3D textmode to go with it. So it's a lot of hard work.

Jellon (Posted 2008) [#8]

I just can't seem to get it working. Global q$ = ("line 1 = " +(Chr(10)+Chr(13))) Print "line 2 = " + (Chr(10)+Chr(13)) Print q$ WaitKey() this prints{ line 1 = EE line 2 = EE } but weird looking E's. No newlines other than those added automatically by the print. I don't need a complete ANSI thing. The only thing I need to be able to do is write "\n" escape sequence say into a bank or file when poking/writing stuff into them one byte at a time. Been trying to solve this on my own awhile. Any solutions? thx in advance.