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Title: How to display apostrophe as part of text?
Post by: orchid on 2006-12-19 21:53:10

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%)))

Title: How to display apostrophe as part of text?
Post by: Frank Bicking on 2006-12-19 22:19:26

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)

Title: How to display apostrophe as part of text?
Post by: Yotsuya on 2006-12-20 05:03:15

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.

Title: How to display apostrophe as part of text?
Post by: eejadx on 2006-12-20 05:44:17

Quote from: Frank Bicking on 2006-12-19 22:19:26

Shorter and probably faster according to a quick speed test [...]

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

Title: How to display apostrophe as part of text?
Post by: rocketsauce on 2006-12-20 06:44:16

Instead of %codec% why not use $ext(%path%) to get the three letter extension (except for .flac)?

Rob

Title: How to display apostrophe as part of text?
Post by: thuan on 2006-12-20 09:04:15

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.

Title: How to display apostrophe as part of text?
Post by: orchid on 2006-12-20 11:38:35

Thanks for the tips

Title: How to display apostrophe as part of text?
Post by: Yotsuya on 2006-12-20 19:06:42

Quote from: rocketsauce on 2006-12-20 06:44:16

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.

HydrogenAudio

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