Question about using " \ " as nick in eggdrop.conf

Kev1n · Post by **Kev1n** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:26 pm

in the:
set nick "clanhere\Eggdrop"
set altnick "clanname\Eggdrop"
line, whenever I use that the bot will come in as if there was nothing in the " \ " space (in otherwords, it will come in as clannameEggdrop). But i've seen other eggdrops logged on with a slash.

Just a curious question if there is a way to use it. Not a big deal but looks better for our clan tag.

thanks

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 3:44 pm

you need too use 2 slashes.

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set-nick clanname\\botnick

Kev1n · Post by **Kev1n** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:20 pm

thanks!
does this apply for bot owner aswell?

set owner "clan\Kevin"
to
set owner "clan\\Kevin"

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:33 pm

\ is a special character in tcl, and in order to output it you need to add another \ behind it, so the correct choice for owner would be:

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set owner "clan\\Kevin"

or

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set owner {clan\Kevin}

Kev1n · Post by **Kev1n** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:49 pm

thanks, works perfect.

Galadhrim · Post by **Galadhrim** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 1:45 pm

\ is a special character in nearly all programming languages. if you want to use a [ or ] in tcl, for example you need to "escape" it. like this: \[ this goes for certain characters, often different chars per language.

demond · Post by **demond** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 2:03 pm

Galadhrim wrote:\ is a special character in nearly all programming languages. if you want to use a [ or ] in tcl, for example you need to "escape" it. like this: \[ this goes for certain characters, often different chars per language.

not necessarily... only inside expressions that will be evaluated (including strings of course); you can escape evaluation with curly braces:

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puts {hi Goo[ber}