Difference between revisions of "Textutils (API)"

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|Slowly prints the text. Only difference is, it leaves a line after it.
 
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Revision as of 07:14, 28 September 2012

Text utilities is used to mess around with text easier.

Its functions include:

Method name Description
textutils.slowPrint( text , nRate) Slowly prints the text. Only difference is, it leaves a line after it.
textutils.slowWrite( text , nRate) Slowly writes the text.
textutils.formatTime( time, bTwentyFourHour) Put a time into it, and it spews it out in a different format. For example:

local nTime = os.time()

print(textutils.formatTime( nTime, false ))

textutils.tabulate( table, table2, so on) Prints tables in an ordered form. Each table is a row, columns' width is auto-adjusted.
textutils.pagedTabulate( table, table2, so on) <no description given>
textutils.serialize( t ) Returns a string representation of the table t for storage or transmission.
textutils.unserialize( s ) Returns a table reassembled from the string s.
textutils.urlEncode( str ) <no description given>