How to? TEXT/ENDTEXT but with environment variable expansion?

[Claire_CJS]

TEXT / ENDTEXT is great, but I need the same thing with env var expansion.

Or even one that... works with emoji/unicode?

 

[Charles Dye]

Fun fact: You can use here-document redirection with TYPE:

type <<- endtext
    #define VER_MAJOR %VER_MAJOR
    #define VER_MINOR %VER_MINOR
    #define VER_BUILD %VER_BUILD
    #define VER_PATCH %VER_PATCH
    #define VER_FULL  "%VER_FULL"
    #define VER_WHEN  "%_isodate %_time"
    #define VER_WHERE "%computername"
    #define VER_PLATFORM  "%platform"
    #define VER_FILENAME  "%outfile"
    #define VER_COPYRIGHT_YEAR "%_year"
endtext

 

[Charles Dye]

I've only ever used this stunt with plain ASCII text. You might be able to embed fancy Unicode characters in your batch file, if it's saved as UTF-8 or UTF-16. Or alternatively, use @CHAR or @UCHAR or the like.

 

[Claire_CJS]

I've only ever used this stunt with plain ASCII text. You might be able to embed fancy Unicode characters in your batch file, if it's saved as UTF-8 or UTF-16. Or alternatively, use @CHAR or @UCHAR or the like.

Your suspicions are dead on.

This is why we need a <<:u8 ... I don't know why there's >:u8 and |:u8 but not <:u8 ... this is exactly where i'd use it, if i am understanding.

type <<- endtext


  Welp.
 
%big_top%'   {TCC FORUM WONT SHOW THE CURSIVE CHARACTERS HERE},
%big_bot%'   {TCC FORUM WONT SHOW THE CURSIVE CHARACTERS HERE},
%big_off

%big_top%%@cursive[let's test it out then]
%big_bot%%@cursive[let's test it out then]
%big_off


%@colorful_string[Heyooo this working? ]

raw   emoji={TCC FORUM WONT SHOW THE emoji CHARACTERS HERE}
raw unicode={TCC FORUM WONT SHOW THE unicode CHARACTERS HERE}
env   emoji=%CHECK% %STAR% %WRENCH%
env unicode=%ARROW%

endtext

 

[Charles Dye]

This is why we need a <<:u8 ... I don't know why there's >:u8 and |:u8 but not <:u8 ... this is exactly where i'd use it, if i am understanding.

< and << are for input redirection. There are no encoding specifiers because TCC can decide for itself what kind of text it's receiving.

In particular, << reads text from the current batch file. TCC already knows how the current batch file is encoded — otherwise it wouldn't be able to execute it!

 

[Claire_CJS]

welll i guess.... how i make thing-y do-y??? hahaha :)