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Fizgar
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 Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:30 am
[3.30] %quote() not quoting $ and @ characters.
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This mud I'm on right now uses $ for prompt variables. While adding an alias to switch prompts depending on what I am doing I noticed this. Rather than going through and quoting out each $ one by one I figured I would use %quote().
quotes the $ and displays
to the screen just like that.
That returns an error pop up saying that h is an invalid local variable.
The help file for %quote states
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| Returns the string s with any special characters quoted with the current quote character |
I guess since there is no option to change the special character for local variables in preferences the $ is not considered a special character?
However, if I type:
on the command only a blank line is displayed rather than @H being displayed as if i had typed
Unless I am misunderstanding the use of %quote() this seems buggy.
On a side note. In the help file for %quote() there is a link to a page for special characters that when clicked points to a non existent help article. |
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chamenas
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 1:02 pm
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It would seem to me that %quote takes variable arguments and is working as intended, however if you used %quote("$h") I imagine it would work just fine.
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Fizgar
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:06 pm
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Ok from the Conversion help topic.
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%quote(s)
Returns string s with any special characters escaped with quote character |
I still say something is messed up here.
The above command does not show @H but rather a blank line so the quote function obviously isn't escaping the @ as the help file says it should.
Perhaps once the %quote() function is corrected the issue with $ will be resolved too.
*edit*
Hit submit rather than preview. :( Yeah #show {"$H"} works, but the point of the post was to report the bug with %quote so if it wasn't on the list it could be added. |
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Tech
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 2:48 pm
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I just tried this in zMUD and it's works the same way. The %quote function can take a variable input, and when received will quote the contents of said variable.
Without the quotes, around @H or $j, CMUD necessarily interpret as a variable and not a string. |
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chamenas
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:33 pm
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<alias name="test_q" id="162">
<value>$h="This is $h"
#show {Test 1 $h}
#show {Test 2 %quote($h)}
#show {Test 3 %quote("$h")}</value>
</alias>
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Is %quote supposed to surround it in quotes? I'm not noticing any issues other than that, seems to be working just fine. As Tech said, and I mentioned earlier, %quote expands variables in its parameters. This means that $h is being seen as a local variable and it's attempting to expand it, this works with @h too. If a variable like @h doesn't exist or has a null value, it will feed a blank line in return. In order to get just $h you need to make it a string and surround it in quotes. |
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MattLofton
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:51 pm
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Is %quote supposed to surround it in quotes? I'm not noticing any issues other than that, seems to be working just fine.
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%quote() does not surround the parameter with quotes, and probably doesn't return a result of "result", with the " displayed. However, if the parameter passed includes a " then %quote() should be doing the necessary steps to make each " show up. If I recall, the result would be something like ""result"".
Anywho, I don't think ANY function will adjust the data passed to it in such a way as to "fix" typos, so even functions like %literal() that don't allow variable expansion will probably cause the parser to cry foul.
Finally, if this is on the command line, you can use ~ or ` at the beginning to prevent CMud from parsing the line which should allow you to do the prompt command using just $h rather than "$h". |
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Fizgar
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:19 am
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Ok, so %quote(s) where s can be a variable. It should probably be added to the help file that if s is a variable it will be expanded.
Even so, how come the following returns:
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| A expanded B expanded C expanded |
rather than:
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<class name="test" id="33">
<alias name="test" id="29">
<value>$test1 = @A @B @C
#show {%quote($test1)}</value>
</alias>
<var name="a" id="30">A expanded</var>
<var name="b" id="31">B expanded</var>
<var name="c" id="32">C expanded</var>
</class>
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Rahab
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:48 pm
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Because that is what %quote does. It is what every function does when the argument is a variable. This is not odd at all. %quote("@A @B @C") does what you expect. Without the quotation marks, it treats those as variables to be expanded before applying the function.
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Fizgar
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 3:37 pm
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I see now. Thanks for all the feedback that helped me gain a slightly better understanding of how things work. Sorry it took so long to get it through my thick skull.
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 6:35 pm
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Also, just to add that $ isn't handled by %quote by default since $ isn't technical a "special character" (cannot be edited in the Special Characters preferences). But using the second optional argument to %quote you can add $ to the list of characters that are quoted.
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