macro expansion within a message log
 

Hi -

I've got a loop that is extracting strings from perforce comments and loads them into a macro one at a time, which I'm trying to dump out in a Message log, ie in the "message to log" field, I have:

The next entry is %macro%

This fails when %macro% contains a '[' character (Error parsing scripts: unrecoverable parse error at position xxx - expecting "]") . In order to fix the literal problem with the character, I tried changing the entry to this:

The next entry is [vbld_EscapeString(%macro%)]

but this fails as well.

Any ideas?

The value in %macro% will be expanded (evaluated for macro %% or script [] references) before being passed to vbld_EscapeString, and the value returned from vbld_EscapeString will in turn be evaluated for macros and script. You need to escape the string (double literal percent and bracket chars within it) when assigning it to the macro value. In a Run Script step, it would be

Application.Macros(vbldMacroTemporary).Add "macro", vbld_EscapeString(abc)

where abc is a variable containing the raw value to be assigned.