[PENNMUSH] Preserving % at input

[Jason Newquist]

Hi,

This could work!  Usage of %c seems to be a little tricky, since if 
you use it in a command (say, to set a variable), it evaluates to 
the *variable setting command*.

Can you recommend a usage which would capture $-command input?

-Jason


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Talvo Hornblower wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> Instead of using 'http%0' when you trigger url_check, try using %c instead. 
> That evaluates to the last command typed, before evaluation, so it should 
> contain the exact URL they entered.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Mike Griffiths
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Newquist" <jason at nocturne.org>
> To: "PennMUSH Mailing List" <pennmush at pennmush.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 10:00 PM
> Subject: [PENNMUSH] Preserving % at input
>
>
>> Greetings!
>> 
>> We've had a nagging problem on my social MUSH for a while now, and I 
>> thought I might present it here to see if anyone can help crack it.
>> 
>> We have some code which allows people to simply paste a URL into the MUSH, 
>> thus:
>> 
>>  &WWW3_CMD Globals = $http*:  @tr me/url_code =
>>  http%0, %N, %#
>> 
>> &url_code then takes these arguments, adds the link to a log, and presents 
>> the output to everyone in the room.  Kinda nice.  We use it a great deal.
>> 
>> However, many URLs contain percent signs (%20 for space being infamous, and 
>> other special cases abound), and this causes our code above some trouble. 
>> According to DEBUG output, the percent signs are gone by the time we send 
>> %0 as an argument to url_code --  the very first time we reference it.
>> 
>> Is there anything we can do to preserve percentages given at input time, 
>> before they're evaluated and thus vanish?
>> 
>> Jason Newquist
>> San Francisco Bay Area
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Jason Newquist
San Francisco Bay Area