gretty
19th July 2012 07:00 UTC

Using Splice Causes Installer To Crash
I am using the function Splice in my NSIS Installer.

My Problem: When I execute the below code the Splice function causes the installer to go into an infinite loop or crash it(it doesn't respond). Whats going wrong?

Am I using Splice wrong? If I cant use splice to split my string the way I want it to, is there another function I could use to split a string?

        Section "Dummy"
                
                Push "user_lib_4d C:\12d\9.00\DTEI_Customisation\SURVEY_12d9\DTEI_Survey_User_Lib"  # "user_lib_4d C:/blah"
                Push "0"
                Push "user_lib_4d"
                Call Splice   # causes an infinite loop/crash
                
        SectionEnd

Afrow UK
19th July 2012 10:57 UTC

Why are you Pushing the first segment? It wants the delimiter character/string, which in this case is a space character is it not?

Note you may find it easier to use an array plug-in to split the string and enumerate the parts (nsArray for example).

Stu

gretty
20th July 2012 00:35 UTC

Thanks for the reply :)

I'm not sure where I'm pushing the first segment? Not sure what you mean? I am pushing the 1st parameter onto the global stack.

If I were to add a endline character to the 1st parameter would that work? I'll have a look into the array plugin thanks. Although I'm really hoping I can get splice to work.

Any ideas how I can get splice to work with this string?

MSG
20th July 2012 05:42 UTC

He means you're pushing an array string, then index 0, and then "user_lib_4d" as the array separator. You probably want the space as array separator.