Multi line strings

[peter-evans]

Multi line strings

[peter-evans]

What you are doing is basically the same as this snippet. You're just writing %0A for newlines in place of \n, which is what the snippet is doing, too.

As for why the snippet didn't work, my guess is that the original string in bash had literal \n strings in it, not real newline characters. I'm not a bash expert so I'm not 100% sure, though.

Glad you got it working anyway. 👍

[peter-evans]

Hi @janpio

Glad to hear you found this action useful.

What did work, was just directly use %0A instead of \n

Do you mean that you used %0A directly in the source file? A snippet of your workflow showing what didn't/did work would be helpful to understand.

[janpio]

Oh yeah, that was not worded very clearly.

Here is the actual PR and code: https://github.com/prisma/docs/pull/1569/files#diff-36f0236ca349b31dde3a9edf30873225fe9806cd6f3e5bc90e38657669270479R19-R41 Further down the file this body output is used in your action.

So I am constructing a body string via some (terrible) bash code, basically an intro, then a list of things via a loop and an outro. I first has normal line breaks in my bash code so body was multi line when output there, but the end result in the comment always has \n no matter what I tried, including your code snippet that should replace the characters. So I ended up just directly using %0A when crafting my body string (see code I linked to) and that worked.