Linebreak (#) every X characters

Question

How to make a script that inserts # character every x character?

I already tried to make this by creating a script down below.

This is my script, but it doesn't work, somewhy...

/// string_linebreak(str,w)

var str, w, p, l;

str = argument[0];
w = argument[1];
l = string_length(str);

// Linebreakes
for (p = 0; p <= l; p ++) {
    if (p mod w) {
        string_insert("[@l]", str, p);
    }
}

str = string_replace_all(str, "[@l]", "#");

return str;

I except to get a string with # character every x character.

I also tried `if ((p mod w) == 0) then` instead `if (p mod w) then`. I didn't work. — younyokel, Jun 01 '19 at 13:04
If you just want to draw this, you can try using `draw_text_ext`, this will automatically wrap text. — Rob, Jun 04 '19 at 14:02
@Rob Quist, I have my own script that draws coloured text by reading and deleting tags so it will not work. — younyokel, Jul 21 '19 at 06:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '19 at 14:54

Try this.

//string_linebreak(str,w)
var str = argument0;
var spacing = argument1;
var leng = string_length(str);
var output = "";

var p;
for (p=1; p<=(leng+1); p++)
{
    output += string_char_at(str,p);
    if ((p mod spacing)==0)
    {
        output += "#";
    }
}

return output;

In case you were curious, the problem is that you are trying to iterate through each character but you're also adding characters to the string as you do so.

Thank you. I'll try it later, when back home. – younyokel Jul 21 '19 at 06:03 — younyokel, Jul 21 '19 at 06:03

Linebreak (#) every X characters

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