@SUBST ... how replace character with a caret?

[vefatica]

I want a single character to be replaced by a '^'. How? This didn't work:

v:\> echo %@subst[2,^^,foobar]
fo^ar

 

[vefatica]

I want a single character to be replaced by a '^'. How? This didn't work:

v:\> echo %@subst[2,^^,foobar]
fo^ar

The string will later be used as the argument to TITLE, as in

TITLE %@SUBST[%i,?,%caption]

 

[vefatica]

This one behaves rather oddly:

v:\> echo %@subst[3,%%@char[94],foobar]
foo^

What happened to the rest of the string?

 

[w_krieger]

What seems to be happening is that subst is seeing the string ^^ or ^& as two characters, eg subst[2,^^,foobar] gives fo^ar, while subst[2,^&,foobar] gives fo&ar. This comes by that subst[2,^&,foobar] is actually returning fo^&ar, and this is later expanded to fo&ar.

This works around it. You can use any character after the first /E, that is not likely to appear in your headings. %= accesses the escape character, and a second setdos will restore it to its default. For some generic batch, you could get away with an environment variable.

setdos /E£ & echo %@subst[2,^,foobar & setdos /E^

gives fo^bar

If you don't want to use the second setdos, you could nest the command in a setlocal / endlocal.

 

[rconn]

This one behaves rather oddly:

v:\> echo %@subst[3,%%@char[94],foobar]
foo^

What happened to the rest of the string?

It was overwritten, as you specified.

@SUBST is an overwrite, not an insertion. What you passed to @SUBST was "3,%@char[94],foobar". So this translates to :

Write the string "%@char[94]" to the string "foobar", starting at position 3. The result is "foo%@char[94]".

 

[rconn]

I want a single character to be replaced by a '^'. How? This didn't work:

v:\> echo %@subst[2,^^,foobar]
fo^ar

SETDOS /X-8 is your friend.

 

[Howard Goldstein]

Vefatica wrote:

>I want a single character to be replaced by a '^'. How? This didn't work:
>
>
> Code:
> ---------
> v:\> echo %@subst[2,^^,foobar]
> fo^ar

Charles Dye's SafeChars plugin makes it really easy:

C:\>echo %@subst[3,%_caret,foobar]
foo^ar

--
Howard

 

[vefatica]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 09:53:05 -0500, rconn <> wrote:

|SETDOS /X-8 is your friend.

Yeah! It has been 20 years since I started with 4DOS and it never fails ...
just when I **need** SETDOS, I have forgotten about it. Thanks for the
reminder.

 

[Steve Fabian]

---- Original Message ----
From: rconn
To: ESFabian@zenge.org
Sent: Sunday, 2011. February 27. 09:39
Subject: RE: [Support-t-2635] Re: @SUBST ... how replace character with
a caret?

| Quote:
| Originally Posted by vefatica
| This one behaves rather oddly:
|
|
| Code:
| v:\> echo %@subst[3,%%@char[94],foobar]
| foo^What happened to the rest of the string?
|
| It was overwritten, as you specified.
|
| @SUBST is an overwrite, not an insertion. What you passed to @SUBST
| was "3,%@char[94],foobar". So this translates to :
|
| Write the string "%@char[94]" to the string "foobar", starting at
| position 3. The result is foo%@char[94].

@SUBST[n, string1, string2]: Substitutes string1 starting at position n in string2.

F:\JPSOFT>*for /l %n in (0,1,9) echo %n %@subst[%n,x,0123456]
0 x123456
1 0x23456
2 01x3456
3 012x456
4 0123x56
5 01234x6
6 012345x
7 0123456x
8 0123456x
9 0123456x

Using "xy" as the replacement string has similar result - 2 consecutive characters are replaced with "xy". Based on the above result, I'd like a more explicit explanation of "boundary conditions" (i.e., when position n is not part of the string). And I still do not see why replacing a single character in the string with the caret ^ truncates the string?
--
Steve

 

[rconn]

Using "xy" as the replacement string has similar result - 2 consecutive characters are replaced with "xy".

WAD.

Based on the above result, I'd like a more explicit explanation of "boundary conditions" (i.e., when position n is not part of the string).

It's appended to the end of the string. But the user bears some responsibility to not pass garbage!

And I still do not see why replacing a single character in the string with the caret ^ truncates the string?

It never does -- Vincent wasn't replacing a single character, he was overwriting the string with the literal string "%@char[94]" -- NOT the result of the @char.