Zugg Software :: View topic - Problem processing strings which include parentheses.

Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:02 am

When searching room names, I sometimes have to create a string that contains a "(G)" in room names.. Example: "The Dark Altar (G) [** PK **]".
No matter what I do, I cannot find the entry for that room, or any room with the "(G)" included. I've tried using %concat(%char(40), "G",%char(41)), and still it fails. I know that the cMUD parser treats parentheses as special even if they are within a string. I've had to put quotes around strings that contains them.
So the question is... How do I get around this problem? One would think that using %char(40) and %char(41) would have solved the problems, after all, that is the one of the purposes of %char(), to escape special characters.

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

Untested however; How about trying something using %expand?

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:58 am

Maybe this is something that is fixed in the beta version already, but in v2.13 you can just do this:

RoomName = "The Dark Altar (G) [** PK **]"

and it works fine. So you need to give us more details on exactly how you are trying to set a variable to a string value, or exactly how you are searching.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Are you talking about using %mapquery?

RoomName = "The Dark Altar (G) [** PK **]"

If so then you can do this.

RoomName = %subchar(@RoomName, ")(", "%%")

#show %mapquery(%concat("Name LIKE '%",@RoomName,"%'"))

You will also need to replace things like ? and ' for some of your queries to work correctly.

Apologies if this doesn't apply to your problem but you were a little vague about your question.