Hello Alinda, On Thursday, September 19, 2002 at 04:17 GMT +0200, earthworms were entertained when Alinda Helleman [AH] exposed:
AH> I thought the following QT should do the trick. AH> ,------- [ QT wrappedcookie ] ------- AH> | %SETPATTREGEXP="^(.*)-/-(.*)$"%- AH> | %REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%QINCLUDE='pickcookie'"%- AH> | %WRAPPED="%SUBPATT='1'" AH> | %SUBPATT="2"%- AH> `------------------------------------ The problem you're noticing is not a bug, it is due to how the macros are processed. The argument to a macro can be thought of as a mini-template, and regular expressions are not inherited from a parent template. What do I mean? Well, you defined your regular expression at the QT level, but you're calling %SUBPATT="1" inside the mini-template of %WRAPPED. But you didn't define a regular expression in the mini-template, so the subpattern is empty. To get around the issue, you need to define the regular expression in both places. But you are using a QT to randomly choose your cookie, so you should use the %COMMENT field to store the result of your picking the cookie. The template would look something like: =====[Begin wrappedcookie]===== %COMMENT="%QINCLUDE='pickcookie'"%- %- %WRAPPED='%- %SETPATTREGEXP="^(.*)-/-(.*)$"%- %REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%COMMENT"%- %SUBPATT="1"' %- %SETPATTREGEXP="^(.*)-/-(.*)$"%- %REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%COMMENT"%- %SUBPATT="2" %- %COMMENT=""%- =====[ End wrappedcookie]===== -- Thanks for writing, Januk Aggarwal All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- E. Rutherford ________________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBTECH" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
