Escaping Special Characters

[Alisandra]

Hi,

Is there a way of escaping 'special' characters like quotes, (), etc? Every now and then, Event_Chat decides to kill the macro on some of the conditional statements because one of the incoming strings has a special character in it.

ie: /if "$lcase("@MsgText")"~~"somestring" {}

Thanks!

[ml2517]

Take a look at my autolink.mac macro in the depot. I had to throw away special characters like > and <. Look at the sub that is at the bottom of the macro. It might be confusing but that is how I went about it, otherwise macro's would get stuck in a nasty loop when they encountered some characters.