Newlines in language strings

[Julian Field]

Please try the attached Config.pm. I have implemented \n everywhere.  
I did it differently from your version, mine should be very slightly  
faster. Please let me know how you get on.


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On 2 Jun 2005, at 15:13, Chuck Foster wrote:

> Hi,
>
> One of the patches I need to apply to each new version of  
> MailScanner is a
> notification message that I wish to place at the top of each message
> generated in the MessageBatch::WarnLocalPostmaster function. Now, in
> principle I could get around having to patch the code by using the
> 'noticeprefix' language string instead; however, that doesn't allow
> interpret newlines so I couldn't use this in the way I wanted for  
> that.
>
> Now, how much pain could it cause elsewhere to have the string  
> returned
> checked for newlines and subsequently used in output? Indeed, what  
> if that
> is taken a step further for %percent% and ENV vars too? I was thinking
> something like:
>
>
> sub DoLineExpansion { # like DoPercentVars but with ENV too
>     my ($string) = @_;
>     $string =~ s/\%([^%]+)\%/$PercentVars{lc($1)}/g;
>     $string =~ s/\$\{?(\w+)\}?/$ENV{$1}/g;
>     $string =~ s/\\n/\n/g;
>     $string;
> }
>
> sub LanguageValue { return &DoLineExpansion( FindLanguageValue 
> ( @_ ) ); }
>
>
> ... where the original LanguageValue function is renamed  
> FindLanguageValue;
> thus, I could then have a line in languages.conf like:
>
>     Notice Prefix: This is a line blah blah\nwith text on another
> line\nFrom %org-long-name%
>
> What could go horribly wrong ... ?!!!
>
> (I guess this expansion could probably be extended to Value() and
> QuickPeek() too at some point ...)
>
> Chuck
>
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