Hello,
im trying to find out if there is any way to do Line Breaks in the Question Variables Field in STACK.
I know the documentation says that items are seperated by a newline or ;.
Is there still a way to do it?
I am using some nested loops and if-conditions and I just want to make it more readable for me and others.
Thanks
Adrian
Yes. It is a text area. You can do multi-line input. Just press enter to start a new line.
(I feel sure I must have misinterpreted your question. Surely the answer can't be that simple.)
Thanks for the quick reply.
I am using a port of STACK for the ILIAS learning platform, maybe there are some differences
and these problems arise just in the ILIAS port of STACK.
For example I have this code in one part of the question variables.
while ... do [ for ... do [... , if ... then ... , ...] ] ;
and I want it to look something like this :
while ...
do [
for ... do [
... , if ... then ... , ...
]
];
I need to make the code as easily readable as possible, so I just want to figure out what options I have to do so.
Almost certainly an ILIAS issue.
Thanks again. This is good to know.
Adrian,
Currently in STACK the text area Tim mentions has one limitation, and that is that it interprets each line as a new CAS input. I don't think this is an ILIAS issue really.
All this is done in this code starting here:
https://github.com/maths/moodle-qtype_stack/blob/master/stack/cas/keyval.class.php#L98
The "explode("\n", $str);" command splits up what is in the text area and the loop in lines 109 onwards make these into new CAS strings.
Adding support for multi-line input is very sensible, and I agree multi-line statements aid readability etc. If you'd like to propose some code to turn multi-line statements into single cas variables, then please go ahead. It will be a very valuable additional feature. I can add it to the "todo list", but it isn't something I'm likely to add in the short term I'm afraid.
Chris
