I need to print text on more than 1 line using \n in the string to go to the next line and I need to read the text from a text file. I am using:

TEXT* message_txt =
{
pos_x = 0;
pos_y = 0;
layer = 2;
font = arial2_font;
string(mes_str);
flags = SHOW;
}

to display the text.

Now if I us the str_cpy function to copy a string containing \n using:

str_cpy(mes_str,message_str);

If message_str is created in the program with:

STRING* message_str = "This is a\n test";

it works OK. eg.

This is a
test

However if I load the string from a text file with:

var filehandle = file_open_read ("test.txt"); // test.txt contains the string "This is a\n test"
file_str_read(filehandle,message_str);
file_close (filehandle);

and then use the str_cpy to copy to the TEXT panel.

It will print "This is a\n test" and not

This is a
test

Any solution?

I don't know why this doesn't work but using a , in a text file also creates a new line.
So it would be "This is a,test"

Writing "\n" within in a string in your sourcecode will cause the compiler to convert that escape sequence to the proper replacement. When reading bytes from a file there is no conversion though. I also don't see any reason why there should be a conversion when reading characters from a file..?

The comma does not create a line feed but separates two strings from each other if and only if you haven't changed the delimiter char previously.

Well, then sorry for my misleading post.

...just saw this:

It wasn't misleading. It's exactly what it does for example when using txt_load. I just wanted to add the delimit_str info.

...then it's just my bad english

... or my Korinthenkacking

I found a solution to this, in the file I changed all \n to %nl% then after reading the string from the file I use:

STRING* linefeed="\n";

...

str_replaceall(gs,"%nl%",linefeed);

where gs is the string just read from the file. Now gs contains a string with \n which work OK