FIXED : tabfind row named "t[xyz]"?

General TouchDesigner Discussion
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I’m trying to tabfind a row named: t[xyz]
but it always returns -1

bug?
tabfind.toe (4.17 KB)

2

yeah, its a bug. t[xyz] basically translates to searching for tx, ty or tz. I have a fix so you can put in t[xyz] to escape the brackets. look for it in the next release.

Selina

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Hi Selina,
I don’t think I’ll be able to escape the brackets in my particular case.
Is there maybe a way you can make it work when wrapping it in single quotes (which we usually use when stuff should not be expanded)?
‘t[xyz]’

or would maybe wrapping it in noevals() work?
noevals(t[xyz])

Thanks
Achim

By the way, the same happens if you put t[xyz] in the select DAT rownames parameter

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the problem in select DAT rownames parameter will be solved in the same fix, via
using a .

the basic issue is that we use a simple pattern matching search that looks for *?[], so the only way to search for these characters is to escape them with a .

can you use t[xyz] in a substitute command for now?

Selina

5

For some reason I need to double escape the [ character

`substitute(substitute("t[xyz]","]","\]"),"[","\\[")`

but that should work. thanks selina

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that’s a bit odd, but I’ll mark it as a low priority thing to look at.

Selina