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Newbie Joined: 26 Oct 2002 Posts: 5 Location: USA

OK, I'm having a hell of a time with getting variables to expand properly. I've read the docs, read the forums, tried about a million different things and nothing seems to work.

Essentially I have something like this:

#forall @items {
itemcolor = set-by-a-big-bunch-of-irrelevant-code
#echo %i @itemcolor
#trigger {%i} {#cw @itemcolor} {Color highlighting}
}

What happens when this:
The #echo line correctly displays the trigger text and expands @itemcolor each time through the loop, so we end up with each item followed by a different color name. The #trigger line creates the correct trigger, but the value of the trigger is *always* "#cw @itemcolor". Note that the variable is not expanded. I tried enclosing @itemcolor in <> to get it to expand, but then it only seems to expand ONCE, and every trigger becomes "#cw red". So how do I get the middle ground, so that every time through the loop I can expand @itemcolor and get the proper color put into the trigger I'm creating?

Thanks!

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Everything is working right. The problem your having is that the #TRIGGER command is not supposed to expand anything. This is done so that triggers can be created with a script that will work. You work around this by use of the #EXEC command:
#EXEC {%concat("#trigger {%i} {#cw ",@itemcolor,"} {Color highlighting}")}
Note that %i is within a quoted portion (but will be expanded), and was being expanded in your old trigger command. This is because %i,%j,...%z are expanded early. In other words they are always expanded even when the command involved does not normally expand that parameter.

Newbie Joined: 26 Oct 2002 Posts: 5 Location: USA

Looks like that did the trick!!! Script appears to work correctly now, Thanks!