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sprintf formatting with quotes


whitelobster

whitelobster
Jun 10, 2013 at 10:17am

sprintf formatting with quotes

I am attempting to create an instance of sprintf that always formats a section of the message with quotations around it

right now I have this as my sprintf object
sprintf script newobject newobj @text ā€œ%sā€ @patching_rect 20. 500. 50. 20. @varname icecreamery222

BUT the problem with this is even though I type in ā€œ%sā€, after I click outside of the sprintf object it reduces the “%s” to %s, how can I format this/use sprintf in such a way that it will preserve the quotation marks? I can’t use the symout argument as this will put quotations around the entire string when it only need have quotes around a chunk in the middle of the message

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Emmanuel Jourdan

Emmanuel Jourdan
Jun 10, 2013 at 10:34am

a symbol only has the double quotes when there’s a space, so “%s” shouldn’t exists. You can just combines the strings with prepend/append.

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metamax

metamax
Jun 23, 2013 at 11:32pm

hey thanks.. this is exactly what I needed.

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