[Solved] Drawing a string with line break (or any \) created from "outside"

[Dawn]

It seems \ does not work for a string variable set by included files.

For example,

draw_text(x,y,"A\nB");

This works.

str="A\nB";
draw_text(x,y,str;

This works too.

//value of str is copied from a grid created from a CSV file containing texts
draw_text(x,y,str);

This shows the text literally with no line break but \n.

I think it happened in 1.4 too but I'm not sure it's a bug or I missed something.

 

[Dawn]

Nevermind. Solved it by using
string_replace_all(txt,"\\n","\n");

 

[YellowAfterlife]

It seems \ does not work for a string variable set by included files.

\ escape sequences are only for strings inside the code.
If you want escape sequences inside externally loaded strings, you'd handle them yourself (just as you have already figured out)