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Old 12-20-2006, 04:08 PM
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Upgrading from 5.7 to 6.2a and Nested Macros

I'm attempting to upgrade from version 5.7 to version 6.2a and I'm having a problem with nested macros. I have the following:

%%["TESTPCPASSWORD"+"%SHORTNAME%"]%%

Previously, it would evaluate to %TESTPCPASSWORD_<value of SHORTNAME>%, which would then be evaluated. For example, if SHORTNAME evaluated to XYZ, the macro to be evaluated would be %TESTPCPASSWORD_XYZ% which would then be evaluated itself.

I can get to the stage of %TESTPCPASSWORD_XYZ%, but this does not get evaluated.

How do I structure this to get it to work for 6.2a?

Julia
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Old 12-20-2006, 04:37 PM
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It was actually a bug (in versions prior to 6.2) that %% was not treated as a literal % character when the field also contained a script expression. See here for other ways to achieve this (which work in all versions of VBP):

http://www.kinook.com/Forum/showthre...?threadid=1249
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Old 12-21-2006, 08:56 AM
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Isn't there an easier way to do this? I use a lot of nested macros in statements in the scripts that look like this:

"%UTILSPATH%\pscp.exe" -q -1 -r -l %%["TESTPCUSERNAME"+"%SHORTNAME%"]%% -pw %%["TESTPCPASSWORD"+"%SHORTNAME%"]%% "%BUILDDIR_RND%\Setup\*" "%%["TESTPC"+"%SHORTNAME%"]%%:%%["TESTPCDIR"+"%SHORTNAME%"]%%"

As you can see, I'm combining the %SHORTNAME% macro with a number of different strings. If I use a solution as suggested, this would look like:

"%UTILSPATH%\pscp.exe" -q -1 -r -l %% [vbld_AllMacros().Item("TESTPCUSERNAME" & vbld_AllMacros().Item("SHORTNAME").Value).Value] -pw [vbld_AllMacros().Item("TESTPCPASSWORD" & vbld_AllMacros().Item("SHORTNAME").Value).Value] "%BUILDDIR_RND%\Setup\*" [vbld_AllMacros().Item("TESTPC" & vbld_AllMacros().Item("SHORTNAME").Value).Value]:[vbld_AllMacros().Item("TESTPCDIR" & vbld_AllMacros().Item("SHORTNAME").Value).Value]

This is not very readable. Creating additional macros to contain the values before using them in a statement like the above defeats the purpose of nesting them in the first place.

Are there any other options?
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Old 12-21-2006, 09:34 AM
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Sure -- create a project or global script function like this:

Code:
Function AppendShortName(macroName)

  AppendShortName = vbld_AllMacros().Item(macroName & vbld_AllMacros().Item("SHORTNAME").Value).Value

End Function
And then use like so:

[AppendShortName("TESTPCUSERNAME")] -pw [AppendShortName("TESTPCPASSWORD")] "%BUILDDIR_RND%\Setup\*" [AppendShortName("TESTPC")]:[AppendShortName("TESTPCDIR" )]
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