Textutils (API)
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Revision as of 17:30, 15 October 2012 by Mrblahblah200 (Talk | contribs) (Added a few descriptions, as well as adding the function textutils.pagedPrint(), which is not in the description of the official help screen.)
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.pagedPrint( string, lines-to-print-before-confirmation ) | Prints a string onto the screen, but waiting for confirmation before scrolling down. |
| 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 ) | Makes a string safe to encode into an url. Spaces are replaced with +s. Unsafe characters such as '\', '£' and '}' are translated into ASCII code and preceeded with a % for transmission. For reference visit [[1]]. |
