Code formatting and inclusion of special characters in SDL script (TDK)
In SDL Script, you specify text to generate by enclosing that text in quotes. For example:
"Generate this text"
In addition, you can control the following formatting features:
• Escape characters
• Text indentation
• Carriage returns and line feeds
Escape characters
You can use the following escape codes to generate formatting and special characters. You can use these escape code within and outside of text enclosed by quotes. For example:
"This is the Dollar character \$\n"
"This is the percentage character " \%\n
To generate
Use this escape code
a space
\s
a tab
\t
a new line
\n
$
\$
%
\%
\
\\
"
\"
'
\'
Text indentation
By default, the \t escape code adds two spaces to a generated file. You can generate tabs instead of spaces, or change the number of spaces that are generated for a \t escape code. The generation of \t escape codes are controlled through the following options on the Advanced tab of the Launch ACS/TDK dialog:
• Use Spaces Instead of Tabs check box selected results in spaces being generated for \t escape codes.
• Use Spaces Instead of Tabs check box cleared results in tabs being generated for \t escape codes.
• Spaces Per Tab box specifies the number of spaces generated for \t escape codes (applies only when spaces are being used instead of tabs).
You can control the level of indentation through the sysIndentLevel system variable.
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Carriage returns and line feeds
By default, the \n escape code inserts a carriage return and line feed to a generated file.
If you want to generate code files for use in a UNIX environment, you will not want to include carriage returns. You can make the \n escape code insert a line feed without a carriage return by selecting the LF Instead of CRLF check box on the Advanced tab of the Launch ACS/TDK dialog.