Subj : Re: Help, It's my fault this time
To   : DesotoFireflite
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Jul 22 2022 13:46:37

  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.

Nightfox

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