TextMesh - Need to add a newline character

I have text to be rendered in a TextMesh, coming from an external file. I need to break apart long text into multiple lines. I naturally assumed that \n or \r would work, but alas, it is not so.

The docs say to hold ALT when hitting RETURN to add a new line, that doesn't work in the inspector, and even if it did, it wouldn't help with my issue.

Anyone know how to accomplish this?

 

Actually, \n does work. You can also use System.Environment.NewLine.

--Eric

 

Well, I have tried multiple things, and nothing gets the string to split.

My input data looks like this

data1,data2,data3, etc.

No quotes around the data. When I read it in, I split it based on the comma, and store it in a String[]. Shoving the data into the array is the only thing that defines it as a string, and I think that may be the problem.

I have tried modifying the data file to include quotes around the data members, but that doesn't fix it.

 

Well, now I'm confused, I thought we were talking about newline characters?

--Eric

 

We are. I was just using that as an example of what the data looks like in the file I am reading in. Feel free to insert a newline character anywhere in the data:

data1,dat\na2,d\nata3

Using this has no effect:

"data1","dat\na2","d\nata3"

nor this:

"data1","dat\ra2","d\rata3"

I will set up a test project to illustrate.

 

In code seems to work fine, but I had to do some replacement from inspector entered text to get it to work, but it's pretty simple...

Code (csharp):

1. text=text.Replace("\\n","\n");

 

Thanks this is the best solution if you read from external file!!!

 

simple as it should be, thanks!!!