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Beginner Joined: 26 Aug 2001 Posts: 12 Location: USA

(Zmud v7.05, stable as a rock)

Where is the command to turn off "Allow [] for eval (local)" on the fly?

I'm writing a set of triggers and aliases for a wide audience, and I don't want to have to include a long set of how-to-configure-zmud instructions. I should be able to do this automatically. I need this feature turned off for my trigger set, but once it is done I need to be able to turn it on in case the user has other settings that might need it.

Failing that, how do I keep %concat from evaluating [] when what I really want is the "[" and "]" characters inserted into a string? Here's the code snippet:

#var istr23 %concat(@istr23,"[P]")

What I get in istr23 is the letter P with no [] around it. The [] do show up with the "Allow [] for eval (local)" turned off. But even using %char to insert them causes them to be evaluated. Putting a tilde ~ in front of them had no effect either.

However, I absolutely have to have the [] around it, because the external database program I'm going to put the output of this trigger set into requires the square brackets. It's not like I could give it curly braces or anything else, it would just error out.

Thanks and best regards,

Zistrosk

Wanderer Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 65

Try using the %quote function.

#var istr23 TEST
#var istr23 %concat(@istr23,"[P]")
#echo %quote(@istr23)

The output should be the same for both preference states.

Beginner Joined: 26 Aug 2001 Posts: 12 Location: USA

Thanks for the %quote, but that didn't fix it.

The mouseover shows that the %concat function completion didn't put the [] square brackets into the istr23 variable at all.

%quote verified that the square brackets are indeed missing, and have been stripped by the evaulation routine.

is there a way to concat with %quote? maybe that would fix it.

Many thanks,
Zistrosk

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

#var istr23 %concat(%quote(@istr23),%quote("[P]"))
#SAY %quote(@istr23) // any time you need to display it just %quote it!

Beginner Joined: 26 Aug 2001 Posts: 12 Location: USA

Okay, something's wrong. What am I doing wrong here?
#var istr23 {"good"}
#var istr23 %concat( %quote( @istr23), %quote( " [L]"))
#say istr23 %quote( @istr23)

and I get:

istr23 good L

No brackets.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Zistrosk

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

Possibly a bug in 7.05? Try upgrading to the latest version, My example was tested and worked correctly on 7.13

Beginner Joined: 26 Aug 2001 Posts: 12 Location: USA

Well, it's pretty much done.

For the full thing, please see:

http://208.56.171.54/rod_db_triggers.html

(or go to www.dcdruids.org, click on the green druid, click on equipment on the left, click on the top Download RoD Database link on the left, click on the link about half way down that says you can click here to get an idea how they work)

Thanks again for the advice.

Best regards,
Zistrosk