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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:19 pm

It's possible that ~ is being used to quote out the a character in one situation but not the other - I assume you're trying to use it as a break between the %char variable and the aq on the end. That's not the proper way to do that, so it might be causing problems. Try using %concat(%char,"aq") or %concat(%char,"~aq"), whichever you were trying to do.

Apprentice Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 100

thanks for your response fang. you are correct i was trying to concat %char and aq into "@bobaq.status" for example.

#if (@{%concat(%char,"aq")}.status = active) {gt active, but...}

or

#if (@{%concat(%char,"~aq")}.status = active) {gt active, but...}

gives unmatched parenthesis error and does not work through the commandline

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:27 pm

To test this, I created a test session called Test with a character name Test. #say %char confirmed that this had worked. I created a variable called @testaq with a key, status, containing the value "active". #say @testaq.status gave the expected response.

#say @{%concat(%char,"aq")}.status gave this output

statusactive.status

but I believe this is due to incorrect usage of the @{} syntax - the whole variable, including the keyname, has to be enclosed in the brackets. So then I tried:

#say @{%concat(%char,"aq").status} and
#say @{%concat(%char,"aq.status")}

both gave no response with no error feedback. This might be due to var.key syntax and @{} interacting buggily since @{testaq.status} also gave no feedback - anyone else have a problem with it?

I was going to suggest %db as an alternative, but even

#say %db(testaq,status)

gave no feedback as well.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Try #SAY %db(@{%{char}aq},"status")

It should be totally correct syntax, but I can't quite test it right now.

Apprentice Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 100

Thanks for the reply.

#SAY %db(@{%{char}aq},"status")

Does not work, no feedback again.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:19 am

#say %db(@testaq,status) works, but

#say %db(@{%{char}aq},status)
#say %db(@{%concat(%char,"aq")},status)

both don't. Quotes around "status" make no difference.

Apprentice Joined: 11 Aug 2006 Posts: 100

So I know you said @{%char~aq}.status would be wrong... this alias solves all my problems from above..

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:31 am

That does actually work. That's very bizarre indeed. I definitely think there's a bug here, anyway.