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Visual77
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Old 02-10-2018 , 12:41   Line break isn't working in convar.
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I was certain I had asked this before but I couldn't find it from search.

How do you read a (line break) \n in a convar?

The line break is not treated as a line break when the message is printed to the client.

Code:
Server.cfg -> convar_message "Hi. \nThis is my line break."

ConVar hintMsg;

public void OnPluginStart()
{
	hintMsg = CreateConVar("convar_message", "", "Hint message");
}

void PrintMessage(int client)
{
	char buffer[256];
        hintMsg.GetString(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
	if (!strlen(buffer)) return;
	PrintHintText(client, buffer);
}

Last edited by Visual77; 02-10-2018 at 13:22.
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Old 02-10-2018 , 13:22   Re: Line break isn't working in convar.
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Omg, fixed it.
Code:
ReplaceString(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "\\n", "\n");
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Old 02-10-2018 , 21:27   Re: Line break isn't working in convar.
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Leaving this here for future people:
The problem was that C++ was applying an automatic escape delimiter to special characters: (ex: <back-slash>, <double quote>) before handing the string off to the calling code.

Example:
Text file: Hello user, "ALPHA", please provide input: \ERROR
Calling code receives: "Hello user, \"ALPHA\", please provide input: \\ERROR"

Note: Manually writing in escape sequences (ex: '\t', '\n') in a file is treated as 2 characters instead of a single character, this trips the automatic escape feature on the backslash.
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