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asm
Wanderer
Joined: 19 Jul 2004
Posts: 68
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 Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:30 am
Special characters in variables.
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Straightforward problem: if special characters get into variables*, strange things can happen when performing checks on that variables for processing (eg, comparing two strings). So, is there any way to force a literal interpretation of expanded variables? I tried %quote(), both in the #FORALL structure and pre-emptively ( #var myvar %quote(@myvar) ), but to no avail.
if it's relevant, the issue occurs within a nested #FORALL structure, so may involve %i or %i and %j
*This usually seems to happen when a smiley is captured. |
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charneus
Wizard
Joined: 19 Jun 2005
Posts: 1876
Location: California
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:44 am
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Are you talking about CMUD? I posted something similar to variables on the CMUD Forums. zMUD is feature/bug complete, meaning no more upgrades will be made. You haven't really gave much information otherwise.
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MattLofton
GURU
Joined: 23 Dec 2000
Posts: 4834
Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:55 am
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In ZMud, special characters play havoc (and knick-knack pattiwhack, too) on the parser. There's really no way around this other than to change your characters to something very rarely used if %quote() or %literal() don't fix it for you. I ran into this issue regarding periods (speedwalk character) passed to a user function that put the commas back into a number (user function because I was bored and decided to include more delimiters than commas).
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