f-string fails on shorthand "->" expressions

[blackeyedpony]

It would be nice if you could get this to work:

on init 
    declare ui_slider sl (0, 100)
    message(f'test slider value: <sl -> value>')
end on

the precompiler fails to recognise the "->" keyword and stops the variable insertion at the first found ">" and logically comes up with: message("test slider value: " & sl - & " value>") Could you try changing the insertion regex to span to [^-]> ?

[mkruselj]

Regex is not used for f-strings, as I was told by @eitherys... Well it's also obvious from the source code.

[mkruselj]

@blackeyedpony There will be a fix for this but you will have to escape the > character inside the outer <> brackets, so instead of -> it will have to be -\>.

[blackeyedpony]

ah ok. I didn't look at your code yet. Nevertheless, the string formatting is a very handy addition, thanks Mario!

[mkruselj]

All the thanks goes to @eitherys who actually coded it :)

[mkruselj]

@blackeyedpony Try the latest commit!

[eitherys]

This was fixed but that commit contained an error I didn't test; a new commit is on the way that also adds support explicitly for -> without the use of an escape. So your original code compiles now on my end.

[eitherys]