* EleBBS Support List

Hi Guys,

This is mainly directed to any TP coders in the audience:

I've heard some talk about the desire to release a newer official build of
EleBBS include Scotts recent fixes, and I was reminded of a Q-A script
bug which has existed since EleBBS version 0.9.

This bug effects a oneliner script I wrote long ago, and someone asked
me if I could fix the script so I took a look at it this morning and 
pinpointed
the cause.

The bug relates to assigning a padded ^F or ^K macro to a variable.
In the older versions of EleBBS this could be done with no problems,
but currently the result is that the padded macro is not replaced.

For example:

assign 1 ^F..........3
setcomment 1
display "|The comment field should now contain:" 1
display "|press any key"
waitenter

(Replace ^F with Control-F when entering this)

Since ^F3  (Thats the Ctrl-F character, followed by 3) is the macro for
the users handle, adding the .......... in-between these 2 characters tells
EleBBS to make the result in variable 1 exactly 10 characters long,
by either padding with spaces, or truncating.

But in EleBBS 0.09, 0.10rc, or the latest unreleased build this does
not work. After running the script, the comment field contains the
characters ^F.........3  rather then the padded users handle.

If you try the same test with the ".........." padding removed, it does
place the users handle into the comment line as it should, so its
the padding which causes this to break.

The bug is not limited happening in the comment line, but it was
an easy way to demonstrate this. It's actually a bug in the assign
command.


Regards,  Mike 

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