[Gambas-user] Split and escape characters

[Maximillian Von Kloisterheim]

richard terry wrote:
> "Escape is an escape character. Any separator characters enclosed between two 
> escape characters are ignored in the splitting process. If Escape contains 
> two characters, then the first is the starting escape character, and the 
> second the ending one. "
> 
> So says the Docs, escape is even underlined.
> 
> For a dummy line me What are escape characters? (I mean not just what they do, 
> but can someone list them, show an example)
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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Hey Richard - Try this:

Dim SPL as String[]
Dim MSG as string

MSG = "This Line,Is Split at,The Commas"

SPL = Split(MSG, ",")

You can now read the contents of SPL[0] etc

The comma is used as an escape char in this case, although it can be 
quite a few other symbols. Be careful though, because not all of the 
symbols you can type can be used it seems, but # @ ~ ^ all seem to work.

Regards

Max