[PENNMUSH] Preserving % at input

[Andrew Brockert]

Since you mentioned @set, I'm wondering if maybe you could do something
like @set me=temp_url:http%0 right off the bat, then work with
v(temp_url), possibly throwing in a lit(). Just a wild guess.

-- Andrew

Jason Newquist wrote:

> 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
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