Re: console.putmsg alternative that returns a string
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Oct 01 2014 04:13 pm
DM> Re: console.putmsg alternative that returns a string
DM> By: Nightfox to All on Tue Sep 30 2014 12:39 pm
>> Is there an alternative to console.putmsg() that returns a string
>> instead of outputting to the console? What I'd like to do is to have
>> @-codes, etc. interpreted in a string and save that string so I can
>> then pass that string to printf() so I can specify a field length for
>> the text.
DM> I think you're looking for bbs.atcode().
DM> That said, Synchronet @-codes already support a method for length field
DM> specification as well as left and rigth justification:
DM> http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:atcodes#formatting
I think he's looking to get the entire value of the string with
multiple translated at-codes combined, and possibly even other text, which
@-code formatting does not work on. On a singular one, the formatting would
work, but combined with others, not so much. :)
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