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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 (...) (18 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 (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.admin.general)

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