[stringtemplate-interest] Newlines...

[Terence Parr]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Hill, Robert wrote:

> When I add a separator="\n"; on the PC Stringtemplate (as part of  
> antlr
> 3.0b4) is emitting only LF's instead of the CR+LF combination.

Correct.  \n is just \n in a string.  Use \r\n.  Though of course  
it's not sensing what platform it is on, I think that is generally  
what you want in a template.  <\n> should do the right thing but I am  
not sure if separator={<\n>} works.

Ter

>
> Am I missing a setting somewhere?
> Thanks!
> Rob
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: stringtemplate-interest-bounces at antlr.org
>> [mailto:stringtemplate-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf
>> Of tom wible
>> Sent: 03 October 2006 01:32
>> To: stringtemplate-interest at antlr.org
>> Subject: Re: [stringtemplate-interest] format="random string" harmful
>>
>> hi, ter, et al,
>>
>> i've only used ST for a simple web front-end to a db, and
>> since i'm the DBA/tomcat developer/ST author/webmaster, when i
>> need a particular format (particularly dates) i just code it
>> into an object method in the servlet & call it from the
>> template (& bounce the servlet...internet eXploder loses
>> session so often the users never notice having to login just 1
>> more time;-)
>>
>> but i can see how that doesn't scale (even though i like 2
>> keep myself busy
>> coding;-) for a large project...so here's my $0.02:
>>
>>    $numbers:{$it:format="#,##0.0#;(#,##0.0#), "$}$ // using
>> DecimalFormat
>>
>>    $dates:{$it:format="dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z"$}$ // using
>> SimpleDateFormat
>>
>> no, wait:
>>
>>    $anything:{$it:format="%-10s"$}$ // using java.util.Formatter
>>
>> i've not used 1.5 yet (but now i have a reason;-) but perhaps
>> the caps this could be handled via
>>
>> 	'c', 'C'  	 character 	 The result is a
>> Unicode character
>>
>> somehow or other...i'll play around with Formatter a bit...
>> c u
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