Questions tagged [string]
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How do you convert a string sent to an entrypoint into its byte representation?
I want to turn a string into the 0x byte format inside an entrypoint.
If I try to use sp.pack() the actual value I want gets prepended with pack instructions as detailed here
I'm looking for a runtime ...
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How to convert hex string/bytes to ASCII characters
Using Taquito I can load the storage from a smart contract. This storage contains a map called token_info. If I call token_info.get('symbol'), I get a hex string of "4d494e". How do I ...
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How can I do string interpolation on smartpy?
I'm trying to provide better error messages. I've tried several things already that don't work such as regular python fstrings, regular string concatenation. I'm tried to using the sp.string function ...
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How do you read and store a UTF-8 value in Michelson
The Michelson document from the Tezos Developers Resources page states the following about the string type:
Strings, with some usual escape sequences: \n, \, ". Unescaped
line-breaks (both \n ...
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How are strings serialized in Tezos?
How are strings serialized to byte arrays? I understand that they are treated like strings, and that ASCII (or utf8) encoding is used. But what about the rest of the bytes, what do they mean?
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Can I use escape characters in LIGO strings?
I would like to insert some special ASCII characters that I only know how to express as numbers. In Python I would for example be able to write the SYN control character as \x16 since 0x16 is SYN in ...