davidnewcomb
24th August 2007 16:28 UTC

Calling macro with double-quote as parameter
  I am trying to call a macro where one of the parameters is a double quote (").

The compiler is rejecting the

macro WordFindFixedCall STR DEL COL RET

 ${WordFind} "${STR}" "${DEL}" "${COL}" ${RET}

 StrCmp "${STR}" "${RET}" 0 +2

  StrCpy${RET} ""

>!macroend 

>

Tried:

" $0

${WordFindFixed} $2 '$\"' "+2" $0

${WordFindFixed} $2 "$"" "+2" $0 

>

But the compiler complains that there are too many parameters:
Creating NSIS installer
!insertmacro: macro "WordFindCall" requires 4 parameter(s), passed 5!
Error in macro WordFindFixedCall on macroline 1
!include: error in script: "setup_custom_pages_functions.nsh" on line 276
Error in script "installer/setup.nsi" on line 783 -- aborting creation process
Result: 1

Any ideas how I can pass in a double-quote?

jeffadams78
24th August 2007 16:31 UTC

Wrap it in single quotes?

${WordFindFixed} $2 '"' "+2" $0

davidnewcomb
24th August 2007 16:42 UTC

wrapping in single quotes doesn't work either.

jeffadams78
24th August 2007 16:54 UTC

When you wrap it in single quotes in the call to the macro ['"'], inside the macro it will be back to just ["]. So in the macro where you use the value it would also need to be wrapped in single quotes.

${WordFind} "${STR}" '${DEL}' "${COL}" ${RET}

Afrow UK
24th August 2007 17:25 UTC

In the macro, use ` for the quotes.

Stu

davidnewcomb
28th August 2007 12:30 UTC

A far more elegant answer, thanks Stu.