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<td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">Prints tables in an ordered form, like [[textutils.tabulate]]. However, it waits for confirmation before scrolling down.</td></tr> | <td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">Prints tables in an ordered form, like [[textutils.tabulate]]. However, it waits for confirmation before scrolling down.</td></tr> | ||
| − | <tr style="background-color: #E8E8E8;"><td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">[[textutils.pagedPrint]]({{type|string}} text, {{type| | + | <tr style="background-color: #E8E8E8;"><td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">[[textutils.pagedPrint]]({{type|string}} text [, {{type|number}} freeLines])</td><td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">Prints string ''text'' onto the screen, but waits for confirmation (after at least ''freeLines'' have been printed) before scrolling down further.</td></tr> |
<tr style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"><td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">[[textutils.serialize]]({{type|table}} table)</td> | <tr style="background-color: #FFFFFF;"><td style="border-top: solid #C9C9C9 1px; padding: .4em;">[[textutils.serialize]]({{type|table}} table)</td> | ||
Revision as of 13:12, 22 February 2014
The Textutils API is used to format and manipulate strings easily.
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| textutils.slowWrite(string text, number rate) | Writes string text at current cursor position, character-by-character. Number argument rate is optional and is defaulted to 20. The higher the value of rate, the faster text is written (passing a value of 1 writes one character per second). |
| textutils.slowPrint(string text, number rate) | Prints string text at current cursor position, character-by-character. Number argument rate is optional and is defaulted to 20. The higher the value of rate, the faster text is printed (passing a value of 1 prints one character per second). This function also prints a newline. |
| textutils.formatTime(number time, boolean TwentyFourHour) | Takes input time and formats it in a more readable format. If second value is true, returns time in military time; if second value is false, returns time with AM or PM. Example: print(textutils.formatTime(os.time(), false))—os.time() returns MineCraft time. |
| textutils.tabulate(table table, table table2, ...) | Prints tables in an ordered form. Each table is a row, the column width is auto-adjusted. |
| textutils.pagedTabulate(table table, table table2, ...) | Prints tables in an ordered form, like textutils.tabulate. However, it waits for confirmation before scrolling down. |
| textutils.pagedPrint(string text [, number freeLines]) | Prints string text onto the screen, but waits for confirmation (after at least freeLines have been printed) before scrolling down further. |
| textutils.serialize(table table) | Returns a string representation of the table table for storage or transmission. |
| textutils.unserialize(string text) | Returns a table reassembled from string text. |
| textutils.urlEncode(string text) | Makes a string safe to encode into a url. Spaces are replaced with +s. Unsafe characters such as '\', '£' and '}' are translated into ASCII code and preceded with a % for transmission. For reference visit: [1]. |
