regsubing $s

llama · Post by **llama** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:23 pm

I've made a quote script but I'm having a little trouble with it. If someone does the trigger to show a quote, and the quote has a $ in it, I get an error... say if the line was "blah blah $700 blah blah" ... it would error out on the partyline with "[12:08] can't read "700": no such variable" .. I've tried regsub -all {$} line "\\\$" line .. and I've tried regsub -all {\$} line "\\\$" line, but neither seem to work.. anyone have any suggestions?

Alchera · Post by **Alchera** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:35 pm

regsub manual page

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:38 pm

I don't think you need regsub, you probably have a string/list issue in your script. Or the quote has been added inside the Tcl script without skipping $.

llama · Post by **llama** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:41 am

Its read to a list so I can lindex the author/date added.. I didn't think that would cause a problem but apparently it does.. should I string map it instead?

Post by **Sir_Fz** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:40 am

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set list {
 "bla bla $blo bli bla"
 "foo $bar fee moo"
}

# and use:

foreach bla $list {
 # using $bla will work perfectly
}

llama · Post by **llama** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:39 pm

I'll try it, thanks !