On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 03:23:52AM +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Thursday, 31 March 2016 at 03:15:49 UTC, cy wrote: > >This might be a dumb question. How do I format a string so that all > >the newlines print as \n and all the tabs as \t and such? > > http://dlang.org/spec/lex.html#WysiwygString > > r"ab\n" or `ab\n`
Or the verbose way: "abc\\ndef\\tghi" But if the string is only known at runtime, you'd probably have to use std.regex.replaceAll or something like that to manually escape characters. Or implement manual substitution with a pipeline: string myString = ...; string escapedStr = myString .chunks(1) .map!(c => (c == "\n") ? "\\n" : (c == "\r") ? "\\r" : (c == "\t") ? "\\t" : c) .joiner .array; T -- Береги платье снову, а здоровье смолоду.