Code Template Macros: How can I escape \t (tab) character?

[baron52]

Hi!
I am writing a code template that contains JavaScript processing rules.  My issue is that I want to check if data being processed has \t (tab) like this:   

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if(lines[i].indexof('\t')>0){//do something}  However, the generator does not seem to know how to escape tabs (I could not find a macro for this in docs either).  Is there a solution/workaround for this?

Thanks
Robert

[MMA]

I tried your template and generated

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if(lines[i].indexof(' ')>0){//do something}


Although the following trick works, Aaron's Answer is much better.


if(lines.indexof('%TO_LOWER("\T")%')>0){//do something}


Then it will generate

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if(lines[i].indexof('\t')>0){//do something}


[Aaron B]

Or use %sl% to output the backslash character ...

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if(lines[i].indexof('%sl%t')>0){//do something}
See:
http://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/12.1/software_engineering/literaltext.html

[baron52]

Awesome.  Thanks!