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Wanderer Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 69 Location: Australia

I'm running into problems using list variables that contain quotes.

Debugging of these problems is made more difficult as I know of no way of checking exactly what the contents of a variable is. Is there a way of seeing the content of a variable without any processing or parsing?

To illustrate the problem ...

#VAR test "This is a test" ;#say @test
#VAR test "This is a~" test" ;#say @test
#VAR test "This is a~" tes~"t" ;#say @test

This is a test
This is a" test
This is a test

In this case, the question I'm trying to answer is ... are the quotes actually in the variable, or are they being stripped out by the parser?

Thanks,

Apprentice Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 141

#VAR test "This is a test" Actual Variable: This is a test
#VAR test "This is a~" test" Actual Variable: This is a" test
#VAR test "This is a~" tes~"t" Actual Variable: This is a" tes"t

The outside quotes are not in the variables but the other ones are, whats happening in your third example is they're being parsed out during the #SHOW, you could do #SHOW %quote(@test) to see this or actually look in your settings and check the real value.

Cheers

Wanderer Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 69 Location: Australia

Thanks, problem solved.

The quotes were being 'lost' when I was assigning the contents of one variable to another with
#VAR V_1 @{V_2}

Everything works fine now :)

Thanks!

Apprentice Joined: 20 Jul 2001 Posts: 127 Location: USA

In the prefrences window, under script parser, is a check box for stripping " quotes. If this is not a feature you want, you can uncheck the box

Wanderer Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 69 Location: Australia

Thanks, didn't know about that. It's worth looking into.