What is the easiest text pattern for a text file, in use of a text parser for monologues and dialog pop-ups?

Thompson Lee · 2012-09-10T09:57:40

I'm looking into a text pattern that I could use for a basic format. This format will then be parsed by my program, and can easily be split into groups of strings for different purposes. Recently, I have found out about the Wavefront OBJ format, which uses a pretty simple text pattern. Below is a given example. [source lang="plain"]# Blender v2.63 (sub 0) OBJ File: '' # www.blender.org mtllib pyramid.mtl o Cube v 0.833333 -0.291667 -1.166666 v 0.833333 -0.291667 0.833333 v -1.166667 -0.291667 0.833333 v -1.166666 -0.291667 -1.166667 v -0.166667 1.458333 -0.166667 v 0.833333 -0.291667 0.833334 usemtl Material s off f 1 2 3 4 f 6 1 5 f 5 3 6 f 3 5 4 f 5 1 4 [/source] I have decided to work my text pattern based around the OBJ format, shown above, so it kind of looked like this: [source lang="plain"]#1 title:"This is a title." msg:"This is a message." #2 title:"This is something else." msg:"This is fun to read." #3 title:"This is wrong." msg:"This is nice." #4 title:"t" msg:"m"[/source] I was wondering if anyone else have insights on this. As far as I know, text parsing is one thing, but creating a custom pattern is another. Thanks in advance. EDIT: I realized I made a mistake in choosing the text pattern I posted above. The downside of this text pattern, is that you can't concatenate String tokens broken up by one or more newlines. If some monologues / dialogues have extended text messages, the only way to make it work is to turn off Text Wrapping in some text editors. Are there other ways I could do this, by adding in newlines and stuff? I did use the String.split() method, but as far as I know, it doesn't seem to work on newlines. Unless there's a better way to fix this, I'm not quite sure.

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September 10, 2012 09:57 AM

That result is for UNIX and Windows system. Which is totally wrong. :/

This is what I tried using just after I posted that post up there: [source lang="java"]String.split(System.getProperty("line.separator"))[0];[/source]

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