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Highlight from variable on multiple values
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| Posted by
| Rhien
(13 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Thu 21 Dec 2017 06:02 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| Having an issue getting highlighting to work with a variable that has multiple values, although if I put the value of that variable directly into the regex it works.
Variable Contents:
<variable name="target">John|Bob|Jim|Freddy</variable>
This trigger does not work:
<trigger
custom_colour="2"
enabled="y"
expand_variables="y"
group="Highlighted Words"
ignore_case="y"
keep_evaluating="y"
match="\b(@target)\b"
regexp="y"
repeat="y"
send_to="12"
sequence="99"
other_text_colour="red"
>
This trigger does work:
<trigger
custom_colour="2"
enabled="y"
expand_variables="y"
group="Highlighted Words"
ignore_case="y"
keep_evaluating="y"
match="\b(John|Bob|Jim|Freddy)\b"
regexp="y"
repeat="y"
send_to="12"
sequence="99"
other_text_colour="red"
>
Now, to prove the variable is making it into the match I changed @target to have a single name and then it works (but it stops working when I put an additional value separated by a pipe in the variable). | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Rhien
(13 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #1 on Thu 21 Dec 2017 06:27 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| I think I answered my original question again, although I don't understand why so maybe I'll change that to my question.
I changed "@target" to "@!target" and then it worked with the piped string list. I saw another example where someone used that syntax and thought I'd try (and it worked).
I guess my new question is, What is the difference between "@target" and "@!target"? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #2 on Thu 21 Dec 2017 08:03 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| If you use @target the client assumes you might have any text there, and in order to make the regexp "safe" will put backslashes before magic characters, to that "|" will become "\|".
If you use the @!target method this suppresses this action, so that you can use special regexp characters (as you have done) in the variable. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Rhien
(13 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #3 on Fri 22 Dec 2017 12:30 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| | Got it. Thanks again Nick. | | Top |
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