Escape \n

[Endercraft]

Hi,
Is it possible to make something like \\n to escape \n ? Everytime I try using it it just gets turned into a newline.
It would be great to also have this for every magic text.

 

[Jacob L]

It would be \\n

?

or "\n"

 

[Endercraft]

$\n
#\n
~\n~
`\n`
There are lots of possibilities to this.

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What I was trying to do is to replace newlines by \n.
When you modify JSON and variables have newlines they are written as \n, except when you do stuff to it with MacroDroid it is automatically evaluated. So I was trying shell script but MacroDroid's shell doesn't really like stuff like pipes. So I guess I can use a Termux script for the moment.
I have a workaround to write it in a variable but it is automatically evaluated when used.

 

[Dm114]

When needed I convert it to \¶ (or ¶) and then replace it back to \n

 

[Dimlos]

How about this kind of workaround?

 

[Dm114]

How about this kind of workaround?

As ¥ is a currecy symbol (Japanese yen) it's the reason why I use a character more discriminant such as ¶ (by itself or \¶ )

 

[Endercraft]

My original goal was to write \n in a file, which is not that easy.. Storing \n in a variable is easy compared to that.

 

[Dm114]

My original goal was to write \n in a file, which is not that easy.. Storing \n in a variable is easy compared to that.

No it's not so easy. It's the reason why I store \¶ in files when necessary and then, at retrieve time, replace all \¶ by \n

 

[Endercraft]

Apparently I can't get it to work with Termux either.. When launching the script from Termux everything is fine but when launching from Termux:Tasker it just doesn't work under any circumstances...
I've completely given up on MacroDroid's shell script.

 

[Dimlos]

@Endercraft
Please attach the Termux script if you can.
I would like to try it when I have time too.

 

[Endercraft]

Here's my script.
$1 should be the path to file (passed as argument).
You can create a macro (or text) and add a newline in a variable.
If you execute it from Termux it works but not from Termux:Tasker.

 

[sampleuserhere]

IMHO, It's better for Macrodroid to stop automatically converting "\n" into new line and start accepting new line in every field instead.

It'll break everyone's setup, but man, I can't imagine having to escape "\n". It'll another similar problem in the future.

I wonder if the Dev have ever said something about this matter? I'm kind of new here.

 

[Dimlos]

I prepared a simple script to verify this.
I found that the backslash was lost when passing the argument as is, so I enclosed it in double quotation marks.
I used double quotes in Termux.Tasker as well, and got the same output as Termux.
If you want to recognize newlines, use the -e option of echo.

 

[Endercraft]

I prepared a simple script to verify this.
I found that the backslash was lost when passing the argument as is, so I enclosed it in double quotation marks.
I used double quotes in Termux.Tasker as well, and got the same output as Termux.
If you want to recognize newlines, use the -e option of echo.

I just realized the script couldn't attach because of file extensions.
Here it is.

27 byte file on MEGA

mega.nz

 

[Dimlos]

I have improved the script a bit, but I think I am getting the results I want by running it from Termux:Tasker.

 

[Endercraft]

Oh, I haven't been using Termux with variables in a long time so I completely forgot I am supposed to use %var_name and not [lv=var_name].. I'll try with that.