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Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

I think this is a bug, or if not, it is an inconvenience:

#SHOW %literal( this is a, string with a comma)
this is a

#SHOW %literal( "this is a, string with a comma")
"this is a, string with a comma"

So, to make sure the text you get is what you want, you have to do:

#SHOW %subregex( %literal( "this is a, string with a comma"), "^\"|\"$", "")

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Have you tried messing with the Strip Quotes preference? I know it works on variables.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

This is actually a very obscure bug in every other function; %literal, %clip, and %quote are the ones that it is most often found in. It is essentially never noticed because internally zMud supplys proper double quotes when retrieving data from a variable. What happens is the comma is taken as a delimeter between parameters if quotes aren't used. I only class this as a bug because all functions are designed to only have a limited number of parameters, therefore I don't think the parser should even try to seperate off other parameters beyond the last that the function expects.

If you are using a text constant there is no real need to use the %literal function, and further more you should use the proper delimeters. While I would class it a bug, it has been around at least as long as I have. You are probably only the third person to ever find it. So I don't expect it to be fixed ever.

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

I used a text literal as an example, the real usage is:

#ALIAS t {#IF (%numitems( "%1") = 1 & %numwords( "%1", ",") = 1) {#IF ("%1" = everyone) {mp/h %subregex( %literal( "%-2"), "^\"|\"$", "")} {page %1=%subregex( %literal( "%-2"), "^\"|\"$", "")}} {mp %expandlist( "%1", ",")=%subregex( %literal( "%-2"), "^\"|\"$", "")}}

This is a MUSH generic "page" (i.e. tell/whisper) alias and uses the correct form based on who is being paged. The %literal was the only way I could find to preserve double quotes without other bad effects.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

You might want to use #ONINPUT and directly assign the text to a variable.
#ONINPUT {^t (%x) &Page$} {Page=%quote(@Page);#IF (%numitems( "%1") = 1 & %numwords( "%1", ",") = 1) {#IF ("%1" = everyone) {mp/h %subregex( @Page, "^\"|\"$", "")} {page %1=%subregex( @Page, "^\"|\"$", "")}} {mp %expandlist( "%1", ",")=%subregex( @Page, "^\"|\"$", "")}}

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

With the test trigger:

#ONINPUT {^foo (%x) &tmp1$} {page %1=%quote( @tmp1)}

and input:

foo target testing "with quotes" @foo and ats and %S percents

The result is:

page target=testing "with quotes" ~@foo and ats and ~%S percents

Not sure why the quoting tildes remain in the text for the ats and percents, but not for the quotes.