From: Josselin <josselin@...>
Date: 2007-06-02T15:05:22+09:00
Subject: Re: generating CReturn in xml file

On 2007-06-01 20:51:13 +0200, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> said:

> On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 02:35:15AM +0900, Josselin wrote:
>> Flash can understand the CR if the character  &#13; is embedded  (ASCII
>> code for CR)
>> 
>> so if I have a string like "Announce 14&#13;at 04/04/2007", it will
>> display correctly into my Flash object as
>> 
>> Announce 13
>> at 04/04/2007
>> 
>> my problem is how to generate the string, I tried :
>> 
>> name_label = "Announce " + proposition.id.to_s + "\nat " +
>> post.created_at.utc.strftime("%d/%b/%Y")
>> but it's not working
>> I also tried ....
>> name_label = "Announce " + proposition.id.to_s + "&#13;at " +
>> post.created_at.utc.strftime("%d/%b/%Y")
>> not working
>> ...  how can I put this character sequence as it ?
> 
> "\r" is character 13. "\n" is character 10.
> 
> $ irb1.8
> irb(main):001:0> "\r"[0]
> => 13

thanks Brian...  I was mixin chracter sets.....   \r is the right one 
... it runs very well..
my Flash app is very happy to get it....

joss