Since \e is not recognized by your compiler, you can change it to any
value you wish. (You've already seen that when you changed it to 'e'.)
You should set it to a value that cannot be part of a character's name.
If you like, you could set it to '\005', assuming the MS compiler
recognizes that as character 5.
At 05:34 PM 3/19/98 -0800, you wrote:
>At 03:13 PM 3/19/98 -0000, you wrote:
>>On 3/19/98 11:53 PM, Jon Barrett (mixtli@SINFO.NET) stated:
>>
>>>fills the variable with the UID_CHAR which is '\\e' and then with the
>>>playes id_num. But when I watch the variable at runtime it is actually
>>>'e1'. Where did the '\' go? I thought it could be because of the %c in
>>>the above sprintf, or maybe it is compikler specific.
>>>Anyway, in the next check from get_char(), which is called from
>>>find_replacement():
>>>
>>>if (*name == UID_CHAR)
>>>
>>>It is looking for that '\e' which is the UID_CHAR. Since the '\' is
>>>missing the check is always false and a null is always returned.
>>
>>No, your misinterpretting it.
>>
>>It is looking for '\e', or ascii value 5 (cntrl-e), NOT "\\e" which would
>>be read as \e. \ is an escape sequence.
>>
>>- Chris Jacobson
>>
>Ah, I understand that \ is an escape sequence, but UID_CHAR is defined as
>'\\e' in ds_scripts.h so the \ should still be there when I watch the
>variable.
>I took your response as advice and changed the UID_CHAR to '\e' When I
>compiled I got and unrecognized character escape sequence error. I checked
>into the help for that error and it said that when that happens, the \ will
>be deleted and the following character will be printed. Hmm....maybe thats
>the problem...
> .....Jon.....
>
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