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Quake C strings are one of the primitive types of Quake C. They are zero-terminated sequences of characters. Vanilla quake c offers no straightforward ways to modify a string once it is created and no way to combine existing strings into a new string. | Quake C strings are one of the primitive types of Quake C. They are zero-terminated sequences of characters (meaning a series of ascii letters). Vanilla quake c offers no straightforward ways to modify a string once it is created and no way to combine existing strings into a new string. | ||
In quake-c code, double quotation marks delimit the start and end of a string. | |||
<code>local string myString = "The Rune of Black Magic throbs evilly in your hand";</code> | |||
== Escape Charaters == | |||
Much like the C programming language, strings in QuakeC have escape characters: | Much like the C programming language, strings in QuakeC have escape characters: | ||
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== Trivia == | |||
The 2021 release uses curly-braces as a delimiter/replacement shorthand | The 2021 release uses curly-braces as a delimiter/replacement shorthand | ||
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file paths are strings | file paths are strings | ||
The maximum length of a string is 2048 characters | |||
== see also: == | |||
[[ftos]] creates a string from a floating point number | [[ftos]] creates a string from a floating point number | ||
[[vtos]] creates a string representation of a vector | [[vtos]] creates a string representation of a vector | ||
[[WriteString]] - sends a string to the quake engine | |||
[[Category:Primitive]] | [[Category:Primitive]] | ||
Revision as of 07:26, 24 March 2022
Quake C strings are one of the primitive types of Quake C. They are zero-terminated sequences of characters (meaning a series of ascii letters). Vanilla quake c offers no straightforward ways to modify a string once it is created and no way to combine existing strings into a new string.
In quake-c code, double quotation marks delimit the start and end of a string.
local string myString = "The Rune of Black Magic throbs evilly in your hand";
Escape Charaters
Much like the C programming language, strings in QuakeC have escape characters:
| character | result |
|---|---|
| \n | new line |
| \" | " |
| \0 | unknown |
| {{ | { |
| }} | } |
Trivia
The 2021 release uses curly-braces as a delimiter/replacement shorthand
Searching through the existing entities in the world of quake can be done by strings
Strings can be printed/output to screen with a number of different methods
file paths are strings
The maximum length of a string is 2048 characters
see also:
ftos creates a string from a floating point number
vtos creates a string representation of a vector
WriteString - sends a string to the quake engine