I forgot to reply all. Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 12:19:29 -0500 From: "G. Wade Johnson" <gwadej@anomaly.org> To: Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [OpenSCAD] Feature request: recognize the line break in multi line string On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:21:33 -0700 Jerry Davis <jdawgaz@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought in most projects, the \n did the right thing DEPENDING UPON > the platform it was running on. > > So if you are on windows, \n becomes technically a \r\n, on mac and > linux, just \n. > > \r shouldn't even be in there, IMO. Whichever tool you are working with normally handles line endings correctly for the platform they are on (modulo little issues like Windows text/binary modes). The problem comes when you get files from a different system... Some tools can handle the variations, and we are talking about adding that feature to OpenSCAD. It isn't really as much of a problem in the whitespace, but when a newline occur in a string, more thought is needed. Just my 0.02. G. Wade > > > > -- > Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ > Registered Linux User: 275424 > Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer > > > *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds > new discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. > Asimov > > *I* > *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if > you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a > lifetime. *- Anonymous > > > *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing > really excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson > > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 20:22:19 -0500 > > "G. Wade Johnson" <gwadej@anomaly.org> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015 19:49:53 -0400 > > > doug moen <doug@moens.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Alan Cox said "There are systems that just use \r." > > > > > > > > Not any more, and not for a long time. Apple dropped support > > > > for Mac OS 9 in 2002, and OpenSCAD seems to have started in > > > > 2009. Xt has also never supported MacOS 9. You've never been > > > > able to create a text file with \r line separators on any > > > > system that supports OpenSCAD, and those systems likely only > > > > exist in computer museums nowadays. > > > > > > Less than a month ago, I got an example data file from a company > > > that was using \r as a line separator. I don't know for sure > > > where they got it. (Of course a quick one-liner converted it to > > > something reasonable for me.) > > > > > > Until that time, I believed that you were correct. Now, I'm not > > > sure I would discount Alan's comment so quickly. > > > > Ignoring the \r isn't the way to do it. The logic is trivial to do > > it right > > > > \r\n -> one newline > > else > > \r -> one newline > > else > > \n -> one newline > > else > > literal character > > > > Alan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenSCAD mailing list > > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org > > -- There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly. -- Alan Perlis -- If there's no problem, there's no solution. -- Rick Hoselton