I've jumped in with both feet and have started writing my own command shell. It has gone well so far. I have an annoying problem though..

I want to display a textfile based on the current message sub-board. I know Synchronet has this, but I need to do it myself. I thought I'd put the filename into a string variable.

str fn
sprintf fn "%%zrooms/%s" "@SUB@"
printfile fn
but it has unpredictable results. It seems to set it to the command string. I also tried

set str "%zrooms/@SUB@"

but the @-code didn't expand. How can I do this? Thanks.
















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Re: @-codes in a String
By: ASCII Express to All on Sat Jan 25 2014 10:35 pm

I've jumped in with both feet and have started writing my own command
shell. It has gone well so far. I have an annoying problem though..

I want to display a textfile based on the current message sub-board. I know Synchronet has this, but I need to do it myself. I thought I'd put the filename into a string variable.

str fn
sprintf fn "%%zrooms/%s" "@SUB@"
printfile fn
but it has unpredictable results. It seems to set it to the command string. I also tried

set str "%zrooms/@SUB@"

but the @-code didn't expand.

@-codes are used for display purposes usually and cannot be used to expand values in strings in Baja.

How can I do this? Thanks.

I'm sort of surprised, but I cannot find a way to do this in Baja. There's no command-line (%) specifier for the current sub-board internal code nor any Baja
"system variable" for that string.

This is rather trivial in JavaScript however (bbs.cursub_code is a string which
contains the current sub-board's internal code), so perhaps you could just write a small JavaScript to display this file and exec that script form your Baja script.

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Re: @-codes in a String
By: Digital Man to ASCII Express on Mon Jan 27 2014 04:07 pm

I'm sort of surprised, but I cannot find a way to do this in Baja. There's n

o

command-line (%) specifier for the current sub-board internal code nor any B

aja

"system variable" for that string.

Right, I looked for that exact thing and couldn't find it. That would come in handy. I'll try the javascript idea. I've meant to brush up on it anyways.

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