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Re: Disappearing backslash? (was: parts i'd like to see in Lcad/MLcad)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:38:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> 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.
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> It's worth noting that I couldn't find any mention of backslashes anywhere in
> the FTX documentation.
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> --Travis
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 generate other special characters (like the
backslash itself).
It's similar to HTML and the less-than-char < (or the greater-than-char >) for
tags. To really print them to the screen, you have to use < and >
respectively.
But it's just a thought.
Leg Godt!
Rene
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