How Hollywood Prints Square Brackets
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 10:35 pm
I just discovered an interesting inconsistency with how Hollywood prints square brackets.
In order to avoid the format tag error, double brackets ("[[" and "]]") are needed in the string to make the printed text appear as single brackets ("[" and "]").
*The documentation ("5.3 Strings") states that "\[" and "\]" should work; but that does not seem to work.*
This works as expected:
Print("[[Test]]")
This also works as expected:
Print("[[Test")
But this does NOT work as expected (the brackets print as double instead of single):
Print("Test]]")
Viewed in the framework of some reasonable code, this works as expected:
But if this string is used instead...
SampleStr$="Now is the time for all [[good men]] to come to the aid of their party."
...then the problem becomes apparent.
In order to avoid the format tag error, double brackets ("[[" and "]]") are needed in the string to make the printed text appear as single brackets ("[" and "]").
*The documentation ("5.3 Strings") states that "\[" and "\]" should work; but that does not seem to work.*
This works as expected:
Print("[[Test]]")
This also works as expected:
Print("[[Test")
But this does NOT work as expected (the brackets print as double instead of single):
Print("Test]]")
Viewed in the framework of some reasonable code, this works as expected:
Code: Select all
SampleStr$="Now is the time for all [[good]] men to come to the aid of their party."
WordsTable$, count=SplitStr(SampleStr$, " ")
For x=1 To count
NPrint(WordsTable$[x-1])
Next
SampleStr$="Now is the time for all [[good men]] to come to the aid of their party."
...then the problem becomes apparent.