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| aaa\[bbb || aaa[bbb || See Label rendering rules.
| aaa\[bbb || aaa[bbb || See Label rendering rules.
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| aaa\\\\[bbb || aaa[bbb || See Label rendering rules. All the backslashes get swallowed up at once!
| aaa\\\\[bbb || aaa[bbb || See Label rendering rules. BEFORE AGS 3.4patch3: All the backslashes get swallowed up at once! FROM AGS3.4 patch3 : Same behaviour as everywhere else. Every backslash counts.
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| aaa\bbb || aaa\bbb || (identical) See Label rendering rules.
| aaa\bbb || aaa\bbb || (identical) See Label rendering rules.
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| aaa\[bbb || aaa[bbb || The brace's special behaviour is disabled if it's preceded by one or more backslashes. The backslashes are not rendered.
| aaa\[bbb || aaa[bbb || The brace's special behaviour is disabled if it's preceded by one or more backslashes. The backslashes are not rendered.
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| aaa\\\\[bbb || aaa[bbb || Please note that ''all'' the backslashes before a '[' don't get rendered.<br>Not only do they not get rendered, but they get '''deleted from the String''' (in-memory) if you make use of any of the following functions: '''Append''', '''AppendChar''', '''Replace''', etc. Also when you do a ''string'' -> ''String'' conversion (Reminder: ''string'' is the old-style AGS string, while ''String'' is the new-style AGS string since 3.x).<br>It doesn't seem to happen when you use ''String.Chars[i]''
| aaa\\\\[bbb || aaa[bbb || BEFORE AGS 3.4 patch 3: Please note that ''all'' the backslashes before a '[' don't get rendered.<br>Not only do they not get rendered, but they get '''deleted from the String''' (in-memory) if you make use of any of the following functions: '''Append''', '''AppendChar''', '''Replace''', etc. Also when you do a ''string'' -> ''String'' conversion (Reminder: ''string'' is the old-style AGS string, while ''String'' is the new-style AGS string since 3.x).<br>It doesn't seem to happen when you use ''String.Chars[i]'' STARTING FROM AGS 3.4 patch 3 : Every backslash counts. \[ gives [, \\ gives \, etc.
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| aaa\bbb || aaa\bbb || The string gets rendered exactly as in memory, as the backslashes are not followed by '''['''.
| aaa\bbb || aaa\bbb || The string gets rendered exactly as in memory, as the backslashes are not followed by '''['''.
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