Subj : ANSIMRD MCI codes
To   : Digital Avatar
From : Digital Avatar
Date : Thu Sep 19 2019 17:14:44

on 19 Sep 2019, Digital Avatar said...
 
 DA> So I'm having some more trouble with ansimrd.ans, but this time

....aaaaand disregard. Fun fact for anyone else who runs into this problem:
the trimming and padding functions used in conjunction with the MCI code
system is *very* unforgiving. It expects exactly 2 digits. No more, and more
importantly, no less. So if you do something like, say, pipe $R4 pipe &4,
Mystic will happily give you the finger and just print out the string '&4'.
If, OTOH, you use pipe $R04 pipe &4, you'll get the results you expect.

Just one of those fun little gotchas that's irritating as hell and par for
the course.

NOTE: Edited because Mystic dutifully converted the pipes into color codes.
*sigh*

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