String Display Format Specifiers

[JackDunaway]

I recently asked a question about String Display Format Specifiers and soon was confirmed that such ability does not currently exist. The illustration below describes what I would like to do. I know you can display a numeric several different ways (decimal, hex, binary...) just as if you were changing the radix on the display. I would like a similar feature that introduces Format Specifiers that allows String Displays for Password, Hex, and Codes that would replace the three "???" below.

Message Edited by JackDunaway on 05-10-2010 10:37 AM

[altenbach]

Thanks Jack! This is one of my ideas from prehistoric times, way before the ideas exchange.

I always wanted to e.g. easily format a dialog box or error log entry e.g. as follows:

"The received string "abc" contains some unprintable characters ( "abc\00\00" in \-codes)".

As a quick and dirty workaround you could write to a hidden indicator and get the text.text property.

(now we only need a numeric integer format code for roman numerals... 😄 ...  X-IV)