As the topic title implies: how to escape the vertical pipe character "|" during script processing?
As anyone who has ever fiddled with a WSS knows, the pipe character is used as a separator in multiple-field outputs in Mp3Tag. This means having a pipe contained in a string wreaks havoc during processing.
A search in the forum indicates using a backslash to escape the character; but this doesn't seem to work in specific regard to the pipe character, as the parser engine still considers a backslashed-escaped pipe as a valid separator.
I already have a workaround, with the use of the similar "Halfwidth Forms Light Vertical" or $char(65512), but the question remains: is it possible (currently) to escape a pipe character, in a way that it doesn't interfere with normal WSS processing?
There's a special command made up for web source scripts called $verticalBar() that's an internal representation of the pipe character | that doesn't create a separation/moves to the next track/interfering with your outputs. When your script gets to Adjust Tags, all instances of $verticalBar() are automatically changed back into | for your output.
The main use has been using the replace command to replace "|" "$verticalBar()" at the very start below [ParserScriptAlbum]=... which should then replace every instance of | found in your source's input, which by then is loaded into Current Position/pointer/Line and Position/whatever to replace those instances.
Any time you want to insert | without creating a separation/moving to the next track, use $verticalBar().
Escape characters can get funky because there's now different syntaxes in Mp3tag web sources, between web source commands using the backslash \ then format strings in UseFormat/SayFormat commands using ' and even regular expressions using \. It all still works though
Your workaround works in the same way though.
(Also dangit @AreDigg, you beat me to it with a second to spare )
Of course you're both correct, as is the documentation (which I forgot to check ):
For fields that have varying contents for tracks, e.g., `TITLE`, `TRACK`, or `ISRC`, Mp3tag expects the output buffer to contain the individual values separated and finalized by the pipe character `|`, e.g., `Title 1|Title 2|Title 3|`. Use `$verticalBar()` in case you need to emit the pipe character as content of a field.
$verticalBar() doesn't make the most pleasant debug output string to look at, but that is the solution. @AreDigg as you were first, you get the "Solved" prize.
@arb you had the most complete answer, so you get an emoji prize .
And I get to rewrite my script...... again
Thank you all
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But you have much more comprehensive answer.
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