Reading strings with spaces in datafiles

[garyglitter]

Noticed this bug recently. Any prop with a string as a result seems to have trouble being read, not saved.

It's saved within a structure, so it might be the structures that are bugged. This is what i basically have to save to a datafile.

var structure

structure.+thing := "a space!"

element.setprop("test", structure)

Now opening up the actual data file reveals that this saves perfectly.

However this...

Print(element.getprop("test").thing)

will return <"uninitialized object"> on EVERY string that has a space. I've tried saving the string in an array like.

structure.+thing := {"a space!"}

and Print(element.getprop("test").thing) still returns <"uninitialized object"> for any string with a space. Every other string is returned as {string}, works fine.

I then tried what the result of

res := SplitWords("a space!")

structure.+thing := res

And that returns <"uninitialized object"> too. So with an array with 2 words, no spaces it returns this error

hmm

So it's either a bug with accessing data files, or a bug with structures, OR a bug with structures IN datafiles Either way, I wasted enough time on it so someone else can test if they want. From the responses in my other bug report, it's kinda pointless reporting bugs anyway

[xeon]

I think that prop names don't "allow" spaces inside.

[garyglitter]

I think that prop names don't "allow" spaces inside.

They allow spaces fine.

I just made a test command and it's working perfectly there. I'm stumped on this now. Something I failed to mention is that the data file was created in POL093 and used in 098. All other methods of accessing worked though.

Guess I'll put it down to me