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7684 :: Converter string to raw

• modolo (orginal) [2021-03-23T12:24:06+01:00] view original

  Hi!

  I know it is possible to create raw strings with r or R like:

  let msg = r"tHellon" # raw string

  But if I have a string that was not created as raw, is it possible to make it raw?

  let msg = "tHellon" # string

  let raw_msg = MakeStringRaw(msg) # my wish

  It is possible? I looked in the documentation and did not find anything relating.

  Thanks,

  Marcelo Módolo

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• PMunch (orginal) [2021-03-23T13:45:08+01:00] view original

  Raw strings are just the same as a normal string. Only difference is how they are created. With normal strings it will escape things like \\t to be a tab, but with raw string literals it will be the two characters \\ and t. But I assume what you want is to replace all the escape characters by their escape sequence in which case you can do something like this:

  let msg = "\tHello world\n"
  var escaped = ""
  for c in msg:
    escaped.addEscapedChar(c)
  
  echo escaped
  Run

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• ynfle (orginal) [2021-03-23T13:46:17+01:00] view original

  I believe you are looking for addEscapedChar

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• modolo (orginal) [2021-03-26T13:44:55+01:00] view original

  Thanks!

  This is exactly what I was looking for! I started programming a little while ago with nim!

  Regards, Marcelo Módolo

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