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Curl macros introduction (part 4)
08-10-2011, 04:16 AM, (This post was last modified: 08-10-2011, 04:27 AM by RobertShiplett.)
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Brick  Curl macros introduction (part 4)
A Curl macro that accepts expressions: {ndashe }


As you might guess, {ndashe } links Strings from two expressions with a so-called n-dash or Unicode UTF-8 code point 2013 which is the Curl char represented as '\u2013'.

The changes are as follows:

Code:
{define-macro public {ndashe ?e1:expression , ?e2:expression}
                                                   || note the comma!
   {return
      {expand-template

         ?e1 & n-dash & ?e2  || no change here !

      }
   }
}

and if we now test with

Code:
{let public str1:String = "this", str2:String = "these"}
{paragraph We ndashe'd {ndashe {str1.to-upper-clone} , {str2.to-upper-clone} } }
{expand-to-string {ndashe {str1.to-upper-clone} , {str2.to-upper-clone}}}

what we will see is
On the web page Curl Wrote:We ndashe'd THIS–THESE
{str1.to-upper-clone} & n-dash & {str2.to-upper-clone}

One subtle change was required: the "hyphen" could not be used in the macro because it cannot separate two expressions as it is itself used as an infix operator for a {subtract } expression.

Even if it seemed cute to use the hyphen, most often the comma will be your best choice.

But why would we want {ndashi } or {ndashe }? Wouldn't we want an {endash } macro to accept such curl source or text as we pass in?

For that we will need patterns and the Curl {syntax-switch } macro.
Robert Shiplett, Curlr
Fredericton NB

Canada


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