No blank line in TEXT...ENDTEXT in a LIBRARY function

[Joe Caverly]

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TCC  26.01.40 x64   Windows 10 [Version 10.0.18362.836]

Can anyone duplicate this?

When using TEXT..ENDTEXT in a LIBRARY function, I cannot get a blank line. Example;

Test {
text
1

2

3
endtext
}

...returns...

e:\utils>which test
test is a library function

e:\utils>test
text
1
2
3

FONT for both TCMD and TCC;

e:\utils>echo %@font[0] %@font[1] %@font[2] %@font[3] %@font[4] %@font[5]
Consolas 15 32 700 54 0

Joe

 

[vefatica]

No surprise. Blank lines are removed when library routines are stored in memory.

d:\data\tcclibrary> type test.btm
test {
text
1

2

3
endtext
}

d:\data\tcclibrary> library /u /r test.btm

d:\data\tcclibrary> library /f test
test {
text
1
2
3
endtext
}

 

[Rick Reinckens]

Does it still happen if the line isn't "empty" but consists of one space or tab?

 

[vefatica]

Does it still happen if the line isn't "empty" but consists of one space or tab?

Yes.

 

[rconn]

TCC strips all leading & trailing whitespace from the line. If the line is (then) empty, TCC doesn't save it in memory. If you want to display blank lines, use escape sequences.

 

[vefatica]

TCC strips all leading & trailing whitespace from the line. If the line is (then) empty, TCC doesn't save it in memory. If you want to display blank lines, use escape sequences.

How, exactly? Neither of these, ^r^n and ^e[0m, seem to work.

LIBRARY /F

COMMENT
for  i = 0, 1, 2, ...^r^n
s[i]   = process name
s[i+1] = process start time as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu±ZZZ
^e[0m
s[i+2] = process ID
ENDCOMMENT

If I can get a real ESC in there (not easy with my editor) it'll work.

EDITOR:

LIBRARY /F

COMMENT
for  i = 0, 1, 2, ...
s[i]   = process name
s[i+1] = process start time as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu±ZZZ

s[i+2] = process ID
ENDCOMMENT

 

[Joe Caverly]

Thanks @rconn and @vefatica !

From Notepad++, I used ALT 027 from the numeric keypad, which gives me the following;

...and all of them provide a blank line;

Joe

 

[vefatica]

That doesn't work in TextPad, my preferred editor (or notepad). And even in NPP you must NumLock.

 

[ben]

In TextPad you can replace a character with escape, in regex mode, using \x1b . Tedious, but possible.