Strange Formatting Issue

#1

So, I’ve been playing with if true/false conditions in my statements to reduce the size of my pistons. I’ve been noticing this for awhile, and decided to take screenshots. Sometimes, when there’s a lot of text, the text will “shift” over, but when I highlight the text, the highlighted portion doesn’t match up with the normal text, and you can see the overlap between the two. The expression still works, but if I want to make any changes, I have to edit the text in notepad instead. When I paste it back, it’s all good…but after saving and re-editing it, the condition repeats itself.

[EDIT] When it’s doing this, the piston doesn’t like to “Finish Up”. However, if 1) I copy/paste the text into notepad, 2) Copy/paste all but the last line into the expression box, and then 3) paste in the last line, it formats perfectly, and I’m able to save the piston successfully.

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#2

Now it’s happening on a small piece of code…

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When I copy/pasted into Notepad, I noticed the text had two spaces between the ’ and The, when there should only have been one. (Underscore added by me)

'_The garage light is '{[Garage Light Switch : switch]} - correct
'__The garage light is '{[Garage Light Switch : switch]} - not what I typed

#3

One trick that usually resolves your first example is to use multiple lines.

IE:

"Well, Welcome Home, "
WhoArrived
". "

etc…

Remember in HTML, a carriage return is seen as a single space…
and multiple spaces are seen as one space.

I believe you can split random() into multiple lines as well, but I don’t have an example handy at the moment.

#4

Yes, I’ve noticed that multiple lines does help. Just surprised to see it on the short line of code as well.