How can I escape a bang ('!') in a path for my menu script?

chrisloughnane · Post by **chrisloughnane** » Wed 21 Sep, 2022 21:45

I am trying to add a script that will open folder A on LHS and folder B on RHS.

To access it I hit F2 and select my script which works.

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but if my path has ! at the start of a folder name it fails.

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How can I delimit the ! in lua for my real path?

Post by **HaRT** » Wed 21 Sep, 2022 22:00

chrisloughnane wrote: ↑Wed 21 Sep, 2022 21:45 How can I delimit the ! in lua for my real path?

I assume you mean “escape” rather than “delimit”. It's not Lua that makes the difference, it's the User Menu, ! is a special character there. I encourage you to read the built-in Help on this (press F1 while the menu is open and then activate the (very first) Special symbols hypertext link by hitting Enter).

chrisloughnane · Post by **chrisloughnane** » Wed 21 Sep, 2022 23:41

HaRT wrote: ↑Wed 21 Sep, 2022 22:00 I assume you mean “escape” rather than “delimit”

I did mean escape but couldn't find the edit option.

Perfect. Thank you very much HaRT. I found my answer, I was unaware of the built-in help with F1 and everything is working now!

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