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Posted: **Tue Jul 04, 2017 12:56 am**

Hello, in the STRING chapter you can see following example:

If a newline character follows a backslash, Hollywood will insert a newline character into the string also and will continue parsing the string on the next line. For example, the following two statements create the same string:

a$ = "Hello\nWorld!"
a$ = "Hello\
World!"

whenever I try the second way (with the "\") I get the error:

Error in line 2 (Unnamed1): Unknown sequence character after backslash!

Thanks

Posted: **Tue Jul 04, 2017 12:24 pm**

That seems to be a Hollywood bug. I'll fix this, thanks for reporting!

Posted: **Sat Aug 12, 2017 3:33 pm**

Code: Select all

- Fix: Using a backslash to span a string across multiple lines didn't work when a carriage return
  instead of a newline character followed the backslash

As a workaround, simply save your scripts in Amiga/Unix format, i.e. using LF instead CRLF on line breaks. Then the backslash will work in 7.0 as well.

Posted: **Sat Aug 12, 2017 7:32 pm**

Thanks.

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