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Because of a multilangual publication I am trying to use an ini-file for all texts, so that I can swap language easily.
In all my textfields I put variables which will be automatically filled.

Now this works great except for one thing:
"This is a test\nwith a newline"
actually will be put into the variable in the textfield as
"This is a test\nwith a newline"

In other words: the newline is ignored by Opus.
Is there a way to avoid this? Or is there another way people would do this multilangual thing? I wouldn't want to make use of the database, because I think it's easier to edit a text-file instead.

Gr,
Paul

How odd, I'd have thought that it would have keep the paragraph breaks. I would have also hoped that the JS replace command might have solved the problem, but can't make it work in Opus and there doesn't seem to be an OS alternative

You can try using this bit of script instead:

var myCount = 0
//Reads data from INI into a string
var IN = GetINISectionData("C:\\test.ini", "1")

//Splits string data into an array using the pipe for demarking
//NOTE you can't use \n yet
var mySplit = IN.split('|')

//Creates a loop that reads through the array
for (myCount == 0; myCount < mySplit.length; myCount++)
{
//Creates a new string called myINI that inserts the \n for paragraph breaks
myINI = myINI + mySplit[myCount] + '\n\n'
}

Basically, it splits the INI data into paragraphs based on the pipe as a demarker (you can't use \n with the split command) and then rebuilds the string from the split pieces insert a double \n where the pipe (|) symbol was.

Mack

Hope this helps.

Great, thank you
This works fine!

We even simplified it by the way:

Oh btw:
This way we can even use \n in the ini (if we want):

How, with such a neat solution, did you get stuck in the first place

I'd forgotten about the join command. Most useful.

Mack

Hehe Yeah I could probably have thought of that myself. But I didn't