Subj : Re: Help, It's my fault this time
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jul 23 2022 15:11:37

  Re: Re: Help, It's my fault this time
  By: Nightfox to DesotoFireflite on Fri Jul 22 2022 01:46 pm

 >   Re: Re: Help, It's my fault this time
 >   By: DesotoFireflite to Nightfox on Fri Jul 22 2022 02:15 pm
 >
 >  Ni>> I started getting into the habit of using \x01 in any strings
 >  Ni>> rather than using literal Ctrl-A codes. That can help prevent
 >  Ni>> editors from changing those characters.
 >
 >  De> Yes, I'm starting to do that too, but some of the older ones I've done,
 >  De> still have the leteral code, and I don't see it till I edit it, then I
 >  De> have to go back and change it :)
 >
 > Why not do a search & replace in your editor?
 > One caveat that I've found though is that if you're using background codes
 > (which are numeric), I ended up splitting the string; otherwise it would
 > interpret the nex number wrong.
 >
 > For instance, if you want to output a blue background (Ctrl-A + 4), then I'd
 > do this in JavaScript:
 >
 > "\x01" + "4";
 >
 > Otherwise, if you have "\x014", then that would be interpreted as hex number
 > 14, which would be interpreted as a different character.

That's true for "\x14" (hex 14), but not for "\x014" (hex 01, followed by a '4'). "\x014" works fine, you don't need to split string or any other tricks.
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