IBM QRadar SOAR

When we were writing Strings using Python2 in Resilient Script, "\n" can be used to add a line break.
But in the case of Python3 I found that there're no effects with "\n" and "<br>" is usable. 
[Python2]
incident.addNote("Hello\nPython")
>> Hello
>> Python


[Python3]
incident.addNote("Hello" + "<br>" + "Python")
>> Hello
>> Python​


It took me about 30 minutes to resolve this, so I'll share it to un-experienced developers.

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YUSUKE TOYAMA
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Hi Yusuke,

Thanks for your post. What you see here is that in Python 3, the default format for a text area field like a Note is HTML. This is why <br> works as a line break but \n does not.

If you want to use \n as a line break, you can change the text format to plain text like so:
incident.addNote(helper.createPlainText("Hello\nPython"))

We will be updating the documentation in version 40 with a complete list of differences between Python 2 & 3 in Resilient such as this one. Keep an eye out for updates to this section Python 2 and Python 3 differences

Thanks,

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Sean Mc Cann
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Original Message:
Sent: Thu January 28, 2021 05:27 AM
From: YUSUKE TOYAMA
Subject: TIPS : Line break with Python3 scripts

When we were writing Strings using Python2 in Resilient Script, "\n" can be used to add a line break.
But in the case of Python3 I found that there're no effects with "\n" and "<br>" is usable. 
[Python2]
incident.addNote("Hello\nPython")
>> Hello
>> Python


[Python3]
incident.addNote("Hello" + "<br>" + "Python")
>> Hello
>> Python​


It took me about 30 minutes to resolve this, so I'll share it to un-experienced developers.

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YUSUKE TOYAMA
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