Ya I understood... I'm getting everything formatted just right now coming in from Python. Thanks for all the feedback everyone :)
On 11/16/05, Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, Eric, I didn't explain myself very well. > > Yes, getting the coder to send you strings that are properly formatted to > start with is going to fix your problem. > > But you could consider getting him to replace the "\" character with "\\" > instead of "/" - because that should cure your problem. > > \ is often interpreted as an escape character by many languages. So if > it's > in front of almost anything in a string, it'll 'mangle' the next character > or few characters. > > For example, "\n" is replaced by the newline character. "\t" is replaced > by > the TAB character. And so on. > > If you actually want to include a backslash in the string, you use "\\". > > So in many languages, to specify a Windows pathname you'd use > double-slashes > throughout. e.g. "C:\\Program Files\\MyFolder\\MyApp.exe" > > Hope that makes sense, > Ian > > On 11/16/05, eric dolecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yup - going to get this fixed up before Flash sees it. \u screws things > > too... so getting proper / should work I hope. > > > > e.dolecki > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
