Is it important that return and cr are two different things, depending on the OS? I was told that return means cr/lf on a Mac system and maybe windows, while Linux/Unix systems interpret it as something different. CR is a single carriage return. Do I have this right? Does this matter to your particular application?
Bob Sent from my iPad On May 21, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Keith Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > I'm experimenting with scripting the building of a POST message. So, I'm > creating a set of lines that take the form "<opening_tag_string>" & tVariable > & "</closing_tag_string>" and using a repeat loop to build each component of > each lines into a variable tMessage. > > When I use 'add return & "opening–tag–string" & tVariable after tMessage' to > create a partial XML node statement, I get what I would expect to see in the > message box when I put tMessage. > > However, when I attempt to 'add return & "opening–tag–string" & tVariable & > "closing_tag_string" after tMessage' to create the full statement, the > opening and closing tag strings disappear and I'm left with just the list of > tVariable in tMessage. > > I guess there is some wrapping or encoding that I need to apply to the tag > strings to preserve them inside the variable, but I can't seem to find > anything in the docs or the lists - I'm obviously using the wrong search > terms. > > Any clues gratefully received. > Best, > Keith.. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
