How do I use Newline in strings?

Hello.

I'm setting up menus for my project. how I have it set up is I have a sprite object with two strings. It is set up so that when the mouse collides with a button it will look at it's strings to see what to make the active feature. the buttons are the same object with different frames that I will change in the layout view.

The first string tells the game what game mode the button sets up. So this string could be "KOTH, CTF, ect"

the second contains a description of the game type. a text object to the side will change to the text in this field.

The problem I'm having is when you set a string inside an instance variable, double-quotes no longer seem to work. the issue this has is the command "newline" won't work. Meaning I can't paragraph rules that change how the game flows. And I don't want it to be a contentious string.

Is there a way to have the system still look at the expressions inside an instance variable?

One way to split up a string would be to use tokenat(string,index,seperator)

In the string add a separator where you'd like the newline to be:

TextVariable = "Hi everyone,\Glad to see you..\Wanna have some fun?"

on button clicked

set text to: tokenat(Textvariable,0,"\")&newline&tokenat(Textvariable,1,"\")&newline&tokenat(Textvariable,2,"\")

the textobject would display

Hi everyone,

Glad to see you..

Wanna have some fun?

You could also use a for loop from 0 to tokencount(Textvariable,"\")-1 and set an action to append tokenat(Textvariable,loopindex,"\")&newline&

This all might sound a bit complicated, but when you get the hang of tokenat() and tokencount() , you can do so much with it..

perhaps you could use tokenat to split your text and then add in a newline as required ?

see https://www.scirra.com/manual/126/system-expressions

edit - ok so I see LittleStain has beaten me to it again.

edit 2 - and his answer is so much more informative than mine, don't you just hate some people ? <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

Wow. Good work — I will need to work with this with the loop idea. Thanks a lot.

RamPackWobble hehe Some people seem to be on top of stuff like crazy.

perhaps you could use tokenat to split your text and then add in a newline as required ?

see https://www.scirra.com/manual/126/system-expressions

edit - ok so I see LittleStain has beaten me to it again.

edit 2 - and his answer is so much more informative than mine, don't you just hate some people ? <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">

No, I don't hate anyone..

Is that strange?

I think he was just having a little fun (I hope so?)

but I got the loop to work. so now I can edit my description and just add the \ were I want breaks.

Thanks a ton man. that helped a lot.

'twas so, at least I hope so

'twas so, at least I hope so

Lot of hoping happening here, I hope that hope brings hope..