topic Re: Property Expression Line Break in GDL

Property Expression Line Break

Samuel1997 — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 08:29:19 GMT

Hey guys,

Wondering if there is a way to add line breaks into property expressions within property manager, for GDL its \n but the backslash character doesnt seem to function within property manager, and i guess it would need to be an operator or such?

Cheers Sam

Re: Property Expression Line Break

Peter Baksa — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:25:09 GMT

It seems string type properties can't be multiline, if you copy-paste a multiline string from description to value, the newline is lost.

Using TEXTJOIN ( "\n";...) inserts "n" into the string, as if it is an invalid escape character.

Using TEXTJOIN ( "\\n";...) inserts "\n" into the string which will be interpreted as a newline if you use the string's value in GDL TEXT command, but stays \n in IES.

Re: Property Expression Line Break

Samuel1997 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:35:17 GMT

Thanks for the brainstorm peter, I guess just have to wait and hope they add in a new line command feature within property expression editor. (The idea i was attempting to achieve was to split a single property expression string result, across multiple lines. )