Create your own text control codes
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
A control code is a text character or sequence of characters with a special meaning that, rather than print a text character to the terminal or screen, instructs the computer to do something text-related. Examples include:
NUL(ASCII 0) = The null terminator. Most programming languages silently place this at the end of a string so that the print function knows when to stop.\n(New Line) = This tells the print function to start a new line. Older computers don't have this, rather they use an ASCII 13 (carriage return) followed by an ASCII 10 (line feed).\(Escape Character) = Any control code placed directly after the escape character loses is special meaning and is printed as-is.%d= Insert a base 10 numeral into the string. The value is loaded from a variable specified after the string, separated by commas.
The C code below shows the %d control code in action:
<lang C>int foo = 1;
int bar = 2;
int baz = foo + bar;
printf("%d plus %d is: %d",foo,bar,baz); //outputs "1 plus 2 is: 3"</lang>
- Task
Add a new control code to your language's standard print function, which does some sort of text related task that is not already built into the language. Have the standard print function print a string that uses that code, and display the output. What the control code actually does is up to you, but some examples include:
- Changing the color of the text
- Starting a new line at a custom location, without padding the string with blank spaces
If the language allows, try to make something entirely new that isn't just a macro of existing control codes combined to produce a trivial result (e.g. \n\n\n\n for four new lines would be trivial)
If your language doesn't allow you to modify the standard print function, note it.
(This is a draft task for now because I don't know if anything other than assembly can do this.)