a easy question about maya MEl

[GuismoW]

Hi,

This means that if you wanna write a string on several lines you must use the '\' character at the end of each lines. This will tell maya that your string uses several lines.

eg : string $str1 = "sentense on one line";
string $str2 = "the first line\
the second line\
\
etc\";

This is useful when you have to write "mel script" as string. You can see that if you try to create windows
window;
columnLayout;
button -label "Click on me" -command "print \"Hello, \";\
print \"my name Victor, \"; \
print \"I'm trying sthg...\"; \
";
setParent..;

showWindow;

this form is compulsory when you want to use the 'scriptNode' command for instance

enjoy

[GennadiyKorol]

It means you can't split a string among 2 lines of the script, like this:


string $str = "first part of this line
second part on this line"


instead you should use the \ character,

string $str = "first part of this line \
second part on this line"


This then works.

[koalaLoon]

i understand it now,thank you both!

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