I have a big string, precisely - an XSLT code - that I would like to hardcode in my VB.net program. I tried with putting " before every quotation mark, but it still didn't work out, and it's pretty mocking to place it 100 times. Using Chr(34) is also not the best solution.
Is there some way, like to put # (or another character) before the string itself that will define and work for all the characters in the string that need to be escaped ?
If it is a large string. Why not save it to file and then read the file into memory before you want to use it. That way you don't have to do any escaping and it will be easy to modify if you decide to change it.
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In vue, is there a way to have a value span multiple lines in an .env file. Ex:
Instead of:
someValue=[{"someValue":"Here is a really really long piece which should be split into multiple lines"}]
I want to do something like:
someValue=`[{"someValue":"Here is a really
really long piece which
should be split into multiple lines"}]`
Doing the latter gives me a JSON parsing error if I try to do JSON.parse(someValue) in my code
I don't know if this will work, but I can't format a comment appropriately enough to get the point across so see if this will work:
someValue=[{"someValue":"Here is a really\
really long piece which\
should be split into multiple lines"}]
Where "\" should escape the newline similar to how you can write long bash commands while escaping the newline. I'm not certain the .env interpreter will support it though.
EDIT
Looks like this won't work. This syntax was actually proposed, but I don't think it was incorporated. See motdotla/dotenv#333 (which is what Vue uses to parse .env).
Like #zero298 said, this isn't possible. Likely you could delimit the entry with a character that wouldn't show up normally in the text (^ is a good candidate), then parse it within the application using string.replace('^', '\n');
I'm trying to write a simple multi-line Alias that says several predefined strings of characters in mIRC. The problem is that the strings can contain:
{
}
|
which are all used in the scripting language to group sections of code/commands. So I was wondering if there was an escape character I could use.
In lack of that, is there a method, or alternative way to be able to "say" multiple lines of these strings, so that this:
alias test1 {
/msg #　samplestring}contains_chars|
/msg # _that|break_continuity}{
}
Outputs this on typing /test1 on a channel:
<MyName> samplestring}contains_chars|
<MyName> _that|break_continuity}{
It doesn't have to use the /msg command specifically, either, as long as the output is the same.
So basically:
Is there an escape character of sorts I can use to differentiate code from a string in mIRC scripting?
Is there a way to tell a script to evaluate all characters in a string as a literal? Think " " quotes in languages like Java.
Is the above even possible using only mIRC scripting?
"In lack of that, is there a method, or alternative way to be able to "say" multiple lines of these strings, so that this:..."
I think you have to have to use msg # every time when you want to message a channel. Alterativelty you can use the /say command to message the active window.
Regarding the other 3 questions:
Yes, for example you can use $chr(123) instead of a {, $chr(125) instead of a } and $chr(124) instead of a | (pipe). For a full list of numbers you can go to http://www.atwebresults.com/ascii-codes.php?type=2. The code for a dot is 46 so $chr(46) will represent a dot.
I don't think there is any 'simple' way to do this. To print identifiers as plain text you have to add a ! after the $. For example '$!time' will return the plain text '$time' as $time will return the actual value of $time.
Yes.
I am trying to index data present in csv file to elasticsearch server. The problem is the string itself contain multiple "," so during indexing it is giving indexoutofbound exception.
How to handle commas using csv-river plugin.
Edit:
The example file would be:
MESSAGE_ID,PARENT_MESSAGE_ID,THREAD_ID,FORUM_ID,FORUMINDEX,USER_ID,SUBJECT,BODY,MODVALUE,FORUM_NAME,CATEGORY_NAME,LIKES,DISLIKES,IS_ROOT_MESSAGE,IS_QUESTION
244,195,103,4,3,341,Re: The most stupidest program I've ever seen--Amazon,"I know nothing of your case, but I do know that throwing around terms like ""stupid idiot"" doesn't exactly help your side any.",1,"Order Management, Shipping, Feedback & Returns",Sell on Amazon,,,no,no
you need to enclose your fields in quotes. If the field contains a quote, you need to escape it with a preceding quote.
For example:
"field1","field2","field3 with, commas","field4","field ""5"" with quotes","field6"
I am trying to take a string like "Hello my name is Nick" and transform it to "Hello+my+name+is+Nick" to be passed through a URL. This would be easily done by replacing all the spaces with a + char however I also need to replace all special characters (. , ! &) with their ASCII values. I have searched the net but cannot find anything. I wonder if anyone knows of existing code to do this as its a fairly common task?
I think you're looking for this: HttpUtility.UrlEncode Method (String)
Handles non-URL compliant characters and spaces.
I have a string that is quite long and complicated, with special characters inside. I want to define this string as a variable, but don't want to escape each of them (because there are so many). I remember that in XML they have a special syntax for that, is there something similar for Objective-C?
Edit: I know I can save the thing in a file and load it easily, but is it possible to do so without a new file? I'm having quite some of them...
No, you have to escape the characters (though you only have to escape ", \, and control characters... is the string mostly control characters and quotes?)
A better idea might be to put the string in a file. Load it using +[NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:].