[JASS] The "%" character

[mecatronic]

I'm trying to use this function:

call DisplayTimedTextToForce( p_force, 20.00, "|cffffcc00You picked a Random Hero. You will receive 2 healing potions now and 50% bonus gold each wave." )

but when I run the function, it displays "You picked a Random Hero. You will receive 2 healing potions now and 50 bonus gold each wave."

it should be "50% bonus"

what am I doing wrong?

 

[Shadow Daemon]

Write two % symbols instead of one:

call DisplayTimedTextToForce(p_force, 20., "|cffffcc00You picked a Random Hero. You will receive 2 healing potions now and 50%% bonus gold each wave.")

 

[mecatronic]

oh, thanks for that

 

[Teelo]

In some languages, % is a reserved character for wildcard or control, I guess based on what Shadow Daemon said, in JASS it is control (eg %n for newline?).

I'm still learning JASS myself, but take php for example, and backspace. In php, strings enclosed in double quotes are checked for any special characters, and processed.
If you write:

echo 'blah \n blah';

The output will be:
blah \n blah

If you write:

echo "blah \n blah";

The output will be:
blah
blah

 

[LeP]

In jass % is no reserved char. (ok there is one(?) function that uses %s. and in the game interface)
But there is a bug that single % will removed in the header.
So in the header you have to write two %. In your trigger on %.
(I dont know what you have to do in libraries but i think one % should enough there)

 

[SanKakU]

but i thought libraries were part of the header? they're at the top of it? on top of it?

 

[PurplePoot]

There is no structure in the code (beyond functions and the globals block at the top) once it's compiled. It's all dumped into one big .j file.

 

[Bobo_The_Kodo]

%_ is a command used in wc strings -- don't know why

like %r crashes game or something

try experimenting