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How to display apostrophe as part of text?

So I'm trying to abbreviate codec names to 3 letters and Monkey's Audio is giving me grey hairs. I tried to replace the apostrophe with unicode $char(39) as well as put apostrophes around the apostrophe but neither worked. Is there any workaround for this?

Here is the code I'm using:

$if($stricmp(%codec%,'Musepack'),'MPC',
$if($stricmp(%codec%,'Vorbis'),'OGG',
$if($strcmp(%codec%,'Monkey's Audio'),'APE',
%codec%)))

How to display apostrophe as part of text?

Reply #1 –
Quote
'
(single quotation mark)

Inserts specified text bypassing syntax processing; allows special characters such as %,$,[,] to be inserted. In order to insert a quotation mark character, use '' (two single quotation marks).

Strings enclosed in quotation marks are not processed, that's why $char(39) did not work.

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$if($stricmp(%codec%,Musepack),MPC,
$if($stricmp(%codec%,Vorbis),OGG,
$if($stricmp(%codec%,Monkey''s Audio),APE,
%codec%)))

Shorter and probably faster according to a quick speed test:

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$replace(%codec%,Musepack,MPC,Vorbis,OGG,Monkey''s Audio,APE)

How to display apostrophe as part of text?

Reply #2 –
I am surprised that this didnt work:
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Monkey$char(39)s Audio
because it appears to work in every test I run on my end.

Oh it's because the whole thing was in quotes .. yea the first and last ' are causing the $ in $char() not to be processed.

I dont like mucking about with special characters so I'd suggest this:
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$if($stricmp(%codec%,Musepack),MPC,
$if($stricmp(%codec%,Vorbis),OGG,
$if($stricmp(%codec%,Monkey$char(39)s Audio),APE,
%codec%)))

or something less messy than a cascading if like the replace option above.

How to display apostrophe as part of text?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: Frank Bicking on
Shorter and probably faster according to a quick speed test [...]

Is such a tool available for foobar? If so, where can I get it?

How to display apostrophe as part of text?

Reply #5 –
In Column Tab under Playlist View in ColumnUI settings in Preferences. You can find a Tools button there which open a menu and Speed Test is in it.

How to display apostrophe as part of text?

Reply #6 –
Thanks for the tips
 

How to display apostrophe as part of text?

Reply #7 –
Quote from: rocketsauce on
Instead of %codec% why not use $ext(%path%) to get the three letter extension (except for .flac)?


This will not work for online streams and it will fall victim to any misnamed files while %codec% is a lot more versatile in it's implementation.