winset() cutting off strings

ID:318849
 
Feb 19 2012, 7:22 pm
(See the best response by DarkCampainger.)
Code:
winset(editingcode, "tcscode", "text=\"[storedcode]\"")


Problem description:

winset() appears to cut off text when it detects a quotation mark. "tcscode" is an input element, and if the variable "storedcode" were to contain quotation marks (for example: string = "Hello world!") the string would get cut off (for example: string = ).

Is there some way to work around this?

Feb 19 2012, 7:30 pm (Edited on Feb 19 2012, 7:36 pm)
Best response
You need to escape/encode the quotation marks in storedcode. Otherwise winset() has no way of knowing if the quotes are yours, and signalling that you're done defining the value for the 'text' parameter, or are just a part of the text value itself.

There should be a simple string/text library around here with a replaceText() process. You'll want to replace all occurrences of " with \". Keep in mind that you'll have to escape those characters in Dream Maker itself so it understands you just want the characters. (eg replaceText(storedcode, "\"", "\\\"")

<edit>
Here's a good replaceText() process:
http://www.byond.com/forum/?post=195050
Feb 19 2012, 7:33 pm
Replace " with \"

var/text = "\""
replacetext(text,"\"" , "\"")
proc
    replacetext(string,look_for,replace)
        var/a = findtext(string,look_for)
        while(a)
            string = copytext(string,1,a)+ replace + copytext(string,a+length(look_for))
            a = findtext(string,look_for,a+length(replace))
        return string