Line break in SIL

[Błażej O_]

It may sound trivial, but what is a proper way to put a line break inside a string in SIL script?

I'm trying to add a multiline description to issue, but I don't want to use "\\" sign. I want a proper line break, so that when user will edit the comment he will see:

this is line one
this is line two

but not:

this is line one \\ this is line two

[Michael Partyka · Accepted solution]

Hi Blazej,

Try this one:

"string" + "\n" + "string"

[Błażej O_]

Thanks, that's exactly what I've been looking for

[Konstantin Iakovlev]

"\t\n"

[Daniel Seegräber]

Hi,

does anyone have a solution for making two line breaks in a row? Like this:


Unfortunately /n/n/n does not work :(.

thanks
daniel

[Florin Haszler _Alten Kepler_]

"This is line one\n\n\nthis is line four" should work

[Daniel Seegräber]

Unfortunately not :(

[Jari Pajunen]

If this used to work, I can't get it to work currently with JIra Description field

\n or \\ doesn't work for that.

[Błażej O_]

Hi Jari,

Does it work when you try to put it into other text fields?

Paste your code here - maybe there is some error in the code itself, and we might find it together

[Jari Pajunen]

Example of ticket creation with non-working line breaks:

https://<URL>.atlassian.net/secure/CreateIssueDetails!init.jspa?pid=12300&issuetype=11000&summary=Lorum+Ipsum+Request+&description=Line+1\n\nLine2\nLine+3+\n\nLine+4+

[Alexandra Topoloaga]

Hi Blazej,

My answer comes a little late, but you can also  escape the slashes (like below):

"string\\\\string"

Best Regards,
Alexandra 

[Błażej O_]

Well, that's what I've tried, but when user edits such comment he sees:

string\\string

And I want him to see:

string
string

What is more annoying, double slash doesn't play well with other special markups. Fo example if I want to put a line between two lines I would define a script like this:

string my_comment = "String \\\\ ---- \\\\ String";

Yet, what I achieve is:

comment.PNG

The same thing done by the following code:

string my_comment = "String\n----\nString";

works properly:

comment2.PNG

So I guess "\n" > "\\\\"

[Alexandra Topoloaga]

Ok, I got your point.