how to print to console when you reach the limit of LocalisedString

[Stargateur]

So, I want to print a list of entities on the console, that works well but we can't scroll the console output so I decided to instead of doing one entity per line I concat all into one line. And then... I discover I can't concat more than 20 (well actually 19 cause the first "" count...) with LocalisedString array. I end up solving the problem using deeper level... I really don't get why there is a limit of 20 for the array, for the recursion okay why not but for the array ??? Anyway here some snipped if you know better please advice

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  local i = 1
  local line = {""}
  for type, qualities in pairs(entities_count) do
    if i > 20 then
      print(line)
      i = 1
      line = {""}
    end
    local tmp = {"", " ⚙ ", prototypes.entity[type].localised_name}
    for quality_name, count in pairs(qualities) do
      local quality = prototypes.quality[quality_name]
      local c = quality.color
      local color = string.format("#%.2x%.2x%.2x%.2x", c.a * 255, c.r * 255, c.g * 255, c.b * 255)
      table.insert(tmp, {"", string.format(": [color=%s]", color), quality.localised_name, string.format("[/color]: %d", count)})
    end
    table.insert(line, tmp)
    i = i + 1
  end
  print(line)

[boskid]

LocalisedString's recursion limit being 20 levels is documented since 1.1.22. Please consider not splicing localised strings and instead using log() for whatever debugging purpose you need it.

[Stargateur]

LocalisedString's recursion limit being 20 levels is documented since 1.1.22.

I talk more about parameter limit than recursion limit and I never imply it was new

Please consider not splicing localised strings

What ? my very problem is I'm forced to do this - - I wish I could just do "utils.get_translation(localisation_string)"

instead using log() for whatever debugging purpose you need it.

That not debugging and that irrelevant, debugging or not the problem is here. And honestly I wouldn't use localization for debug output

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Well I end up with this:

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  line = ""
  for type, qualities in pairs(entities_count) do
    for quality_name, count in pairs(qualities) do
      local quality = prototypes.quality[quality_name]
      line = string.format("%s[entity=%s,quality=%s] %d ", line, prototypes.entity[type].name,  quality.name, count)
    end
  end
  print(line)

Not what I wanted but work

[Rseding91]

If you have so much data to show that you can't fit it all on-screen consider making a custom GUI to show it runtime. The chat window is and was never meant as a place to output that much information. It was meant for short one-off bits of information (hence why it fades out, and has a limited amount of space shown on screen).