Print string letter by letter in UI Text

Question

i'm trying to print a string letter by letter for UI Text of Unity. With each click of a button, the Stampa function, must print a letter. Up to this point everything is working perfectly. But if I try to print a newline "\n" the function ignores him and continues to print on the same line.
This is my code:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class Click : MonoBehaviour {

    public static Text txt;
    public static int indice = 0;
    public string asd = "String1 \nStriga2";

    void Awake() {
        txt = GameObject.Find("Cmd").GetComponentInChildren<Text>();
    }

    public void Clicked() {
        Stampa(asd ,indice);
        indice++;
    }

    void Stampa(string stringa, int i) {
        txt.text += stringa[i];
    }

}

That produces this result(unwanted):

I also tried to print the entire string at the same time (not a letter at a time) as follows:

txt.text = "String1 \nStriga2";

That produces this result(wanted):
How can I get this second result by printing letter by letter?

Answer 1

It's reading one character at a time, so it's not properly escaping the new line. I would suggest looking for escape characters in your Stampa() function, and if it's an escape character, read the next character in at the same time. Something like:

void Stampa(string stringa, int i) {
    string r = stringa[i];
    if (r == '\\')
       r += stringa[i+1];
    txt.text += r;
}

Thought you'd likely need to return the index value to the calling function. You could return an int and maybe do something like this:

public void Clicked() {
        int val = Stampa(asd, indice);
        indice += val;
    }

int Stampa(string stringa, int i) {
        int ret = 1;
        string s = stringa[i];
        if (s == '\\')
        {
           s += stringa[i+1];
           ret++;
        }
        txt.text += s;

        return ret;
    }