onyx rover
Is anyone familiar with translation keys and can tell me why some indexed substitutions contain $s after them and some don't? For example with these two strings:
immersive_reader.book_page_header=Page %1 of %2
book.pageIndicator=Page %1$s of %2$s
They don't seem to have any functional difference when tested in-game. Are they synonymous?
To add to this, some lines use $d instead of $s, adding more to the confusion.
ruby aurora
To add to this, some lines use `$d` instead of `$s`, adding more to the confusio...
The whole system is roughly based on C-style text substitution codes.
Depending on what they implemented, you can likely do more formatting stuff, like forcing text into scientific notation, setting number of trailing decimals, etc.
My guesss is this:
Page %1 of %2 --> Page 1 of 2
Page %1$s of %2$s --> Page one of two (?)
's' would be string, 'f' would be float 'd' would be int
onyx rover
Whoa, that would be pretty neat if so, I should test that out
onyx rover
I tried out various combinations of $d and $s with string and number inputs, and between direct /tellraw translations and also in-game examples (opening a book to read book.pageIndicator) and saw no notable differences in the output
I wonder if it is some optimization kind of thing, or the effects of it cannot be seen in English
foggy parrot
I'm trying to wrap my head around how this string substitution actually works. In a command block I have this command:
tellraw @a {"rawtext":[{"translate":"test.one","with":["1","2","3"]}]}, with strings in numerical order.
Now I change the translation key with the structure test.one=Hello A, B, and C and also D. These are the outputs when I edit A, B, C, & D:
%0 %1 %s %s = 2 3 1 2
%1 %2 %s %s = 3 _ 1 2
%2 %3 %s %s = _ _ 1 2
%s %1 %s %s = 1 _ 2 3
%s %s %1 $s = 1 2 _ 3
%s %s %s %1 = 1 2 3 _ This is when you want to add new variables
%1 %2 %3 %s = 2 3 _ 1
%0 %1 %2 %s = 1 2 3 1 This is when you want to loop back to the beginning.
%0 %1 %2 %3 = _ 1 2 3 But alas, %0 doesn't work if the highest number ≥ array length.
%1 %2 %3 %4 = 1 2 3 _ This makes a little more sense, I guess. The pattern continues with higher numbers; 4-7 would leave everything blank.
%s %s %s %s = 1 2 3 _ Same result as above.
%s %s %s %0 = 1 2 3 3 Huh? It's not null & it doesn't loop back, but it does repeat the last element? What's going on?
So what I can gather is that %# and %s don't play nicely together. When they do, it's only when using numbers 0-(n-1) & using %s for looping back. Using %s for unaccounted variables does not work when you already used numbers. Using %s & then using numbers to add more works fine so long as you don't use 0.
If you know how many variables to expect & order matters, I'd recommend only using numbers. If you just need to plug in things in a list, I'd recommend only using %s. In my limited testing, $s did absolutely nothing.
ruby aurora
Wow nice job. This could make a nice wiki article, if you're able to gather more concrete information.