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How to print \ in Lua

Started by houseofkraft, 11 December 2016 - 03:41 PM

houseofkraft #1

172 posts

Location USA

Posted 11 December 2016 - 04:41 PM

So i am making some kind of loading animation and i want to print \

but i know \ means something special in Lua and it does not work.

Thanks

- House

H4X0RZ #2

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1583 posts

Location Germany

Posted 11 December 2016 - 04:49 PM

Just escape \ in the string:


print "Here you go -> \\"

This is used for some other stuff too. eg linebreaks:


print "line 1\nline2"

(Although I'm not sure if print implemented that)

Edited on 11 December 2016 - 03:50 PM

houseofkraft #3

172 posts

Location USA

Posted 14 December 2016 - 12:10 PM

Thanks.