Adobe Community: Message List - Nested quotes, value(), and string() and other fun "Headaches"

Re: Nested quotes, value(), and string() and other fun "Headaches"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 22:55:50 GMT

What the??? Since you already had this working even before your first post, and then figured out another way to make it work too, I should just leave this alone … but I couldn't.

It seems like you went about it backwards. This will create the same result for the variable s as your first example:

myString = "This" && VariableD && "ThisToo" && "That"

s = []

s.append(myString)

although I suspect you really wanted DB to end up being the list and not s, and that would have just been like so:

s = "This" && VariableD && "ThisToo" && "That"

DB = []

DB.append(s)

Re: Nested quotes, value(), and string() and other fun "Headaches"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:57:40 GMT

I ended up creating a small DB in text format as a cast lib member and having yet another text member that

I use to create my entries, which looks much cleaner, and have Director read from that and assign it in the DB.

Re: Nested quotes, value(), and string() and other fun "Headaches"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:06:07 GMT

I agree that it doesn't seem that you are doing things the "right" way, but you haven't provided enough oversight to grasp what a better way might look like. Whenever you find yourself using the value() function to insert a variable into an expression should ring alarm bells that there is a "better" way

Nested quotes, value(), and string() and other fun "Headaches"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 05:59:57 GMT

So I have a handlerA in which I do something like this all with local variables:

VariableA = "The Planet" VariableB && "orbit" && VariableB

I need to store stuff in a big list in a separate handlerB , for example, without the VariableD expanding, which is why I have to put it

in quotes:

DB = []

DB.append("This" & QUOTE && "&&" && "VariableD" && "&&" && QUOTE & "ThisToo" & QUOTE & "&&" & QUOTE & "That")

s = string(DB)

s = value(s)

put s

seems to work but I am not sure I am doing this right. Any input would be appreciated.

I need to be able to call tokens/items from the content of DB, much like what is assigned to VariableA

then have it's variables expand like it does in handlerA

Thanks