Baffling Behavior With TPIPE

[Jay Sage]

I am running a TPIPE command with the following argument that attempts to replace the text "{{4}}" in a file with an email address:

/replace=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,{{4}},name@domain.com

The email address comes out "name.com". It is as if "@domain" is being treated as a function that returns nothing. Can someone explain what is happening and why -- and how I can get this to work.

-- Jay Sage

 

[vefatica]

Doubling the '@' works. I'm not sure why it's necessary.

v:\> echo {{4}} | tpipe /replace=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,{{4}},name@@domain.com
name@domain.com

 

[vefatica]

Read about TPIPE's /simple=48. It mention's macros and shows one whose name begins with '@'. Maybe it has a special meaning to TPIPE when it's not doubled. ... Yup!

Some examples here: How To Use TextPipe > Macros and Global Variables

It also mentions doubling '@' to get a literal one.

 

[Jay Sage]

In the meantime, by trial and error, I also discovered that doubling '@' solves the problem. However, my file contains replacement strings with '@', and it's non-trivial to edit the file.

Any idea how to turn off the processing of macros?

 

[Jay Sage]

This all arose because of an issue with my MAILMERGE.BTM program, which generates customized batches of messages using SENDHTML and TPIPE. I had never before tried to merge an email address, and the program choked. I've now added extra code in the program to double any '@' characters in a token. That seems to have solved the problem (but who knows what others it might end up creating -- it would still be better if I could turn off macros in TPIPE).

 

[vefatica]

Any idea how to turn off the processing of macros?

Nope. You might look through DataMystic's online help. Even if there is a way, it might not be exposed to us.