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Substituting in a string

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Substituting in a string

Post by Balu »

Hi,
what do i have to do to let te following command subtitute de %n in a string with the variable $nick and so on?

[string map -nocase {%n "$nick" %1 "[lindex $args 0]" %2 "[lindex
$args 1]" %3 "[lindex $args 0]"} [join $command_output " "]]
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Re: Substituting in a string

Post by user »

{} defeats variable/command substitution. Use 'list' to make the map.
Last edited by user on Tue Oct 28, 2003 6:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by Balu »

thx, that helped me out, the script is running fine now, it even escaped the chars ; and $ out. Don't need to work around that anymore :oops:
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