Whitespace characters in element names
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Topic: Whitespace characters in element names
Posted By: stefanvw
Subject: Whitespace characters in element names
Date Posted: 10.Jul.2008 at 18:17
Hej,
in my state machine using the WatchApplication DSL I have names with whitespaces and dot-characters. This causes problems for compilation of the generated c files. Is it possible to replace these characters in the generator on the fly by underscore characters?
I would not like using the oid property, because it would impair the readability of the generated code.
Thanks in advance!
Stefan
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Posted By: janne
Date Posted: 11.Jul.2008 at 09:26
Yes, translators can be used for that.
In the generator script you had to have call to the subreport '_translators', which initializes the predefined translators. Then you may use e.g. %var translator, which makes a legal variable name by mapping non-alphanumerics to underscore.
e.g.
subreport '_translators' run
foreach .State [Watch]
{
id%var newline
}
In the sample above all the State [Watch] id property values are translated to have only alphanumeric values (all other characters are replaced with underscore). Subreport '_translators' is stored in the Graph, so any DSM language can access it. In the _translator script there exists predefiened translators e.g. having upper or lower case, XML, adding and removing indentations etc.
See more details from the online manual http://www.metacase.com/support/45/manuals/mwb/Mw-5_3_6.html#Heading1454 - Translating stings
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