SPRINT strref discrepancy

[Miloch]

Code:

SPRINT myvar @123
WRITE_ASCIIE offset ~%myvar%~

works fine (let's say myvar = Text, then it writes Text at the offset)

Code:

SPRINT myvar #123
WRITE_ASCIIE offset ~%myvar%~

Does not - it writes ~Text~ at the offset. %myvar% and myvar do not evaluate the variable (it writes myvar at the offset rather than Text). "%myvar%" writes ~Text~ as well, oddly enough (even though the quotes are differnt).

Yes, I suppose I could avoid it via (even more) hackery by looking up and writing the hardcoded strref to the .tra file. Rather redundant though... gods forbid I have a mod with 5 or 6 translations where I have to do that. A simple WRITE_STRREF command might avoid even the SPRINT hackery.

[wut]

GET_STRREF 123 myvar

Generally you want to be writing the string number rather than plain text in binary files, however - you sure you don't want WRITE_LONG offset 123 or SAY_EVALUATED offset ~%myvar%~?

%myvar% never evaluates variables.

[wut]

Incidentally,

Code:

SPRINT myvar #123
WRITE_ASCIIE offset ~%myvar%~

will write "Haer' Dalis, all of you, stop them!", just as it should. You may want to post the code you're really using.

[Miloch]

GET_STRREF works, cheers. Yes, I want the actual text, not the strref.

Incidentally,

Code:

SPRINT myvar #123
WRITE_ASCIIE offset ~%myvar%~

will write "Haer' Dalis, all of you, stop them!", just as it should.

No, it writes ~Haer'Dalis, all of you, stop them!~ (tildes included). Or it cuts it off around the last word with no closing tilde if you put a #32 after it. Now try putting it in a .tra file and use @123 (or whatever) instead. No tildes, so it's clearly reading them for hardcoded strings (why, I don't know) but not traified ones.

You may want to post the code you're really using.

Not really . Since I'm working with my own files, it wouldn't help much anway. But if you want an example that *isn't* my code, do something like this:

Code:

COPY_EXISTING ar0020.are override
  READ_LONG 0x54 act_off
  READ_SHORT 0x58 act_num
  FOR (i = 0; i < act_num; i += 1) BEGIN
    READ_ASCII (i * 0x110 + act_off) act_name
    PATCH_IF (~%act_name%~ STRING_EQUAL ~Soldier~ = 1) BEGIN
      SPRINT new_name #123
      WRITE_ASCIIE (i * 0x110 + act_off) ~%new_name%~ #32
    END
  END
BUT_ONLY

(I don't care if the "Name" field here isn't really used - it's an example.)

[the bigg]

Another fun way to reproduce is to declare a component as BEGIN #123.

Fixed.