Solved Special characters in string

[CreeperOverLord7]

How can I put special character such as \r, \f, \b, etc. in a string?

set {_myString} to "\r"
send {_myString} # outputs "\r"

I want it to output the actual \r (CARRIAGE RETURN) character rather than the literal text "\r", without using skript-mirror if possible.
I know that skript has newline expression for \n, but I don't see any way to put other characters.

 

[BaeFell]

I don't believe other characters are accepted. Skript is just looking for \n to turn it into a new line. What would you need to use \r for?

 

[CreeperOverLord7]

I don't believe other characters are accepted. Skript is just looking for \n to turn it into a new line. What would you need to use \r for?

I am using it to parse a string that can have escaped characters, inside of Skript.
Please inform me if there is a way to directly do that.
E.g.

set {_str} to "hello\nthis is the next line\rafter carriage return\nA double right arrow: \u00BB"
broadcast {_str} #output with \ processed as literally '\'
broadcast parseEscape({_str}) #output with \n \r etc. converted to their special character

P.S. What would happen if I read data from a file or website, and it had those special character? Would Skript just ignore them, or convert them to other character?

 

[TPGamesNL]

I am using it to parse a string that can have escaped characters, inside of Skript.
Please inform me if there is a way to directly do that.
E.g.

set {_str} to "hello\nthis is the next line\rafter carriage return\nA double right arrow: \u00BB"
broadcast {_str} #output with \ processed as literally '\'
broadcast parseEscape({_str}) #output with \n \r etc. converted to their special character

P.S. What would happen if I read data from a file or website, and it had those special character? Would Skript just ignore them, or convert them to other character?

You'd have to use an addon to get most of those characters in Skript (I don't know many addons that can get you all the characters, some addons like SkQuery or skUtilities have line break characters, but I can only think of one having them all: skript-reflect / skript-mirror).

The characters are treated as any other character in Skript, the only difference being that you can't actually type it in a string within a script file. This means that if you get the content from a file, website or anything that can have these characters, Skript will treat them as normal characters.