Outputting multi line strings to console?

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I use Debug.Log for a large portion of my debugging and just in general workflow. It is how I often visualize that my data is correct and things are working the way I expect.

However it seems that Debug.Log can't handle strings with multiple lines in them. After like 2 newlines, the rest is just cut off.

Since I have complex objects with overriden ToString() methods, this is a real problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Answer by Bunny83 · Dec 05, 2015 at 03:58 AM

The console can handle multiline debug logs just fine. However it doesn't have a scrollbar for the bottom detail view. But you can still scroll by selecting the text and scroll down that way.

A single debug log text is limited to about 64k characters. If you need more than that, you might want to use a custom logfile instead.

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jwvanderbeck · Dec 05, 2015 at 05:30 AM 0

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Ah ok see the real answer here is I did not know that you could click on a console entry and get that extra detail below! I simply saw them being cut off in the console view above.

Thank you!

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Answer by jayvatar · Apr 16 at 07:21 PM

Ran into this as well. If you are using \n on your strings for console output, the default is 2 lines of output. If you want the main console scroll view to show more lines you can specify the amount of lines to show from the 3 dot panel on the right of the Console tab. ![alt text][2]

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