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Re: Disappearing backslash? (was: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad)
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Tue, 1 Aug 2006 23:38:37 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Rene Hoffmeister wrote:
> > In FTX mode, you have to use a double backslash to be guaranteed that it will
> > show up: ldraw\\parts\\s.  I don't know why the single backslash shows up
> > before the s, but not before the p.
> > 
> > --Travis
> 
> It doesn't matter whether there is additional text within a double backlash or
> not: In FTX The first one is used to show the second one.
> 
> E.g. \ldraw\par\ts\s would become ldraw\parts\s too...

OK, now that's just plain weird.  So you're saying that every odd backslash will
show up in an FTX post, no matter where they are, right?  I confess that I fail
to see the reasoning behind this behavior.

It's worth noting that I couldn't find any mention of backslashes anywhere in
the FTX documentation.

--Travis



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  Re: Disappearing backslash? (was: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad)
 
(...) Hi Travis, sorry, but FTX/Perl isn't _my_ invention ;-) I could imagine it has something to do with Perl (AYMK, LUGNET is based upon Perl). The backslash in combination with a char is a so-called "control character" in Perl and also used to (...) (20 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Disappearing backslash? (was: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad)
 
(...) It doesn't matter whether there is additional text within a double backlash or not: In FTX The first one is used to show the second one. E.g. \ldraw\par\ts\s would become ldraw\parts\s too... -Rene (20 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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