[jawsscripts] Re: backslashes and their purpose clarified?
- From: "Bob Kennedy" <intheshop@xxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 03:53:48 -0400
Hi Jackie,
Is the \ written out that way in programming? I know it was an example but
you wouldn't use it that way in a script since everything in the string was
enclosed in quotes. Right? Wrong?
Anyone remember Don Music from Sesame Street? Sometimes I feel like banging
my head on the keyboard too...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:08 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: backslashes and their purpose clarified?
> Geoff:
>
> Let's say we want to include an apostrophe or a quote mark in a
> string. These are used in programming languages to demarcate
> characters & text strings, respectively. So, what happens if we need
> to include an apostrophe, for example:
> var
> string s_text
> let s_text = "Dan's mom's name is Jan."
>
> Well we have a problemo here. The apostrophe is used to enclose
> characters. So we put a backslash in front of it to escape, as it
> were, what the apostrophe normally does. So, it should actually look
> like:
> let s_text = "Dan\'s mom\'s name is Jan."
>
> Clear? Or clear as mud?
>
> On 5/19/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi Jackie.
>>
>> hmmm, thanks for this below re backslashes eh. so I understand this now,
>> that when you need to include a backslash in a directory path, you need
>> to
>> include a double.
>> but, um, I'm still a tincy bit fogged,
>> could you please just perhaps elaborate a little further on exactly what
>> you
>> meant by your saying that backslash was an "escape character?" escape
>> from
>> what, might I ask? <grin> sorry for the ignorance.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:25 PM
>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: How to read bottom line of string only?
>>
>>
>>> Geoff, the double backslash is when an actual backslash is required,
>>> as per a filename, e.g., c:\\golf. (note it's double, if your
>>> punctuation isn't on). The backslash is an escape character & is used
>>> in front of things like quotation marks, apostrophes, &, yeah,
>>> backslashes!
>>>
>>> On 5/18/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Yep that's right Soronel.
>>>> Ok cool, Thanks very much for this.
>>>> That's AWESOME.
>>>>
>>>> it seems to work!
>>>> thank you thank you.
>>>>
>>>> I only used "\n" and it seems to be doing the trick?
>>>> I thought though, that there was some talk of you having to use two
>>>> backslashes in some instances or something? what was I mixing that up
>>>> with
>>>> do you think?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks very much for that snappy response also Soronel eh..
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 1:23 PM
>>>> Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: How to read bottom line of string only?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Windows controls generally need a \r\n pair. (certainly the edit and
>>>>> rich text box controls do).
>>>>>
>>>>> StringSegment() looks like it could do what you're after (basically
>>>>> the last line of a multi-line string, right?).
>>>>>
>>>>> On 5/18/10, Geoff Chapman <gch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> HI Scripters. I wish to work out, from a bunch of text in a frame,
>>>>>> how
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> can string monipulate such that I can read only the bottom line of a
>>>>>> stack,
>>>>>> which in this case will be the last call put on Hold, and which the
>>>>>> keyboard
>>>>>> focus will thus operate on when HoldRetreave is pressed from within
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> telephony interface application I'm scripting for? I know it must
>>>>>> probly
>>>>>> have something to do with grabbing the whole MultiLine string of the
>>>>>> text
>>>>>> in the frame, and somehow getting jaws to search from the right hand
>>>>>> end
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the string, backwards along the bottom line, until it reached a
>>>>>> newLine/Carriage return character, then chopping everything from
>>>>>> their
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> the left, returning the remainder botttom line? but, I'm just a bit
>>>>>> fogged
>>>>>> as to how to exactly code this type of funcionality? Could anyone
>>>>>> steer
>>>>>> me
>>>>>> on the right path here? and, is it a "\r" or "\n
>>>>>> that I'd be looking for here? and is it double backslash that you
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> enclose in quotes when looking for one of these? ive just forgotten
>>>>>> somehow.
>>>>>> thanks so much for any pointers/info.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> geoff
>>>>>>
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