Item13051: Cannot do anything useful with a $pattern that contains a quote (").

If you use a search to locate a topic and then process the topic content using a $pattern, if that $pattern returns a result that contains a " you can't do anything with it - the " will be interpreted as part of the parameter syntax for any macro you call it within.

"Example":

%SEARCH{"Dagnabbit" topic="Item13051" format":$pattern(.*?(.Example.).*):"}% will return :"Example":

Because the "'s come from the $pattern-matched string (and there's therefore no way to escape them) then this result can't safely be used in a parameter to any other macro

We require some way to tell $pattern to escape the result.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 10 Oct 2014

Added $extract to do the job without damaging $pattern.

%SEARCH{"Dagnabbit" topic="Item13051" format":$extract(.*?(.Example.).*):"}% will return :"Example"$:

-- CrawfordCurrie - 31 Oct 2014

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