Hello Januk,
On Monday, July 30, 2001 at 4:39:08 AM you wrote (at least in part):
JA> I think you've got a good idea, but how would you solve this one:
JA> Suppose your string needs a closing bracket ")" but no opening
JA> bracket.
That's quiet easy :-) And the best is: it doesn't matter if there's an opening
bracket before a closing one or not :-)
Escape-sequences is the magic word :-)
In your example it would look like this:
%IF("%DOW"="Friday":"It's almost the weekend ;-\)":"")
It's a very common syntax used in many cases (at least on several *nix
platforms in several [or should I say _much_ *G*] programs/situations).
There're some more escape sequences like '\n' (that one you should know) or
'\\' (which represents a single back-slash), '\d' (single digit) '\[' for
opening square bracket _as char_ (because a normal opening square bracket
would be interpreted as beginning of a 'string of characters from which every
single one an be the next for match the pattern', in other words: RegExp
'P[aeiou]n' would match 'Pan|Pen|Pin|Pon|Pun') ... and so on ...
I think MaxXx idea is not bad and should _maybe_ (of course it on RIT if they
decide it's worth the work on it!!!) evaluated after current Beta series is
released as stable :-)
In my humble opinion this would be a really _good_ feature; brackets in macro
syntax and the possibility of escaped special chars (not all at first, I don't
think we really need _every_ special char Perl regexp offers from beginning).
I think introducing this possibilities will offer some new developments
in Template and Quick-Template macros that can be published in FAQ and/or help
section(s) :-)
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