Zugg Software :: View topic - #PICK, #YESNO - Displaying options with a colon ":" in them

Novice Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 42

Here's the problem:

#va picklist {p:Pick from List|o:1|Item_Without_Colon:Do_Something|Item:With_Colon:Do_Something_Else}
#pick {@picklist}

So obviously, the item "Item:With_Colon" is the problem. I've tried surrounding it in single/double quotes, using %char(58), putting the string inside %string() and %literal().. is there anyway to do this? Would be nice if it worked for the execution command as well, since the item selected may have a colon in it, which is then sent on to another command.

Thanks in advance,

-MrC

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

What about putting a tilde (~) before the colon? That causes the parser to ignore it.

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:08 pm

I tried that in my own tests and it didn't work. I'm not sure there's much that can be done about about this. I tried it with %concat with the same results.

Zugg as a side note this holds true in CMUD as well. Since this is essentially trying to against the parsing issue, I don't think it's really a bug.

Mr. Cheviot, as a work around, maybe you can translate it to another character for display purposes using %subchar().

Novice Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 42

I was just about to post that I had no luck w/ the ~ option either. It seems to be internal to the #PICK routine, so it's not a bug really, just an inflexibility of ZMUD.

Currently, it's not just for display purposes. If I have "Item:WithColon" as the display, when it's selected I want the script to execute "someAlias Item:WithColon" - this means the list def for this particular item is

"...|Item:WithColon:someAlias Item:WithColon|..."

which I'd like to behave like

"...|{Item:WithColon}:{someAlias Item:WithColon}|..."

but currently shows "Item" and tries to exec "WithColon" and ignores the rest..

Re: the %subchar idea, I guess I could try to implement that on both sides, i.e. pre- @picklist and then on the argument passed to 'someAlias'

Hoping there's another way though. Thanks for the ideas,

-MrC

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

I also can't come up with any other idea than subchar'ing both sides.
Sorry we couldn't help more.

Novice Joined: 02 Dec 2007 Posts: 42

No worries - work around and move on, right?

Just made two functions:

#va prePick {%subchar(%-1,":","!")}
#va postPick {%subchar(%-1,"!",":")}

And modified the list creation routine (it's in a loop):

#va picklist %additem(%concat(@prePick(%i),":someAlias ",@prePick(%i)))

And then in someAlias do the opposite:

#va picked @postPick(%-1)

I suppose ; would have been a better/closer replacement, but using ";" when going between aliases/functions can lead to some headaches I've found.

Thanks again,

-MrC