Line breaks in strings read from a notecard?

I have a string with the "\n" character in it, that is read from a notecard and put in a variable. When I llSay the variable, the "\n" doesn't produce a line break but displays as the characters "\n".

Is there any way to put a line break in a string read from a notecard and then put in a variable?

By definition. llGetNotecardLine gets a line (that is, a string of text terminated by a line-break "\n" from a notecard, therefore making it impossible to read the line-break character itself.
==Chris

You'd have to do a backslash parser.

"\n" is initially parsed by the compiler.

string unescaped = llDumpList2String(llParseStringKeepNulls(notecard_line, ["\\n"], []), "\n";

or more general unescaping...

string unescaped = llDumpList2String(llParseStringKeepNulls(notecard_line, ["\\"], []), "\";

Basically, "\n" is not a character, it's two characters. The compiler translates those into a single character when the script is compiled. Notecards don't get translated this way.

I suspect that llDumpList2String(llParseStringKeepNulls(line, ["\\n"],[]),"\n"; is what you're looking for. Note that there are two "\" characters in the first "\\n" string, which will make the compiler translate it to a literal "\n" sequence rather than a newline.

[Edit: posted at the same time as Rickard. His second example won't work, by the way, it's not even going to compile]

Thank you all, especially Argent. That worked perfectly.

One question. This technique doesn't work with say? In other words, if I use llSay on the line, it doesn't break into multiple say lines? Is there a way of doing that?

No, says ignore newline characters, unfortunately.

Although they do appear in your history, which is an odd little quirk.