Escaping chars for workflow commands

[matthew16550]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/workflow-commands-for-github-actions

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

This community topic says we can percent escape \r & \n for ::set-output.

https://github.community/t/set-output-truncates-multiline-strings/16852

I do not see it mentioned in the doc.

It would be good to explain the details e.g. is it all commands or only ::set-output, and which chars?

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[ramyaparimi]

@matthew16550 Thanks so much for opening an issue! I'll get this triaged for review :zap:

[lucascosti]

Hi @matthew16550, thanks for opening this issue. I think the easiest way at the moment to escape multiline strings for setting an output is to create an environment variable in one step, and then use it in a workflow command in the next step, similar to @Simran-B's solution here.

Feel free to open a PR add a link to the Setting an output parameter section linking to the environment variable section for this.

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