4. TScript text control sequences

There are a few special character sequences, which all begin with the '~' character. All other characters pass through unchanged. The special control sequences in data lines are:

~~

replaced by a single '~' character

~n

replaced with a newline character

~c

replaced by the user's callsign

~e

replaced by the Error variable

~b

replaced with a bell character

~h

replaced by the name of the host computer

~d

replaced by the current date

~t

replaced by the current time

~u

un-terminate the current line; remove ending newline character

~l

replaced by the elapsed time of this script, in seconds

~p

replaced with the file position of the current data file

~0 .. ~9

replaced by variable string 0 .. 9

~i0 .. ~i9

replaced by value of index 0 .. 9