Question - Knightlyparse. What does it do exactly?

[Aipoc76]

I've been looking all over but I cant seem to find what the knightlyparse does. How it improves or changes reading macs. Before I go and #knightlyparse all my macs I would like to know more about it.

If anyone can share some info on this that would be great!

 

[exspes007]

it gives you the ability to control what data gets parsed and how many times vice only using a /noparse for an entire line

 

[Knightly]

There's a full write-up on gitlab. It's also where I post outstanding issues. I think the guide is up to date, but exspes would probably know better than I at this point~ https://gitlab.com/Knightly1/mq2-parser-changes

 

[ihc385]

@Knightly Thanks for the info on this, its exactly what I've been looking for and trying to do using some pretty bs methods to accomplish. I know we can always ask but I wish this info would be included with patch notes or something, knightlyparse was mentioned in the patch notes a few times but no examples or links to more info on it....and it looks awesome, so thank you again!
Going to play with this tonight some but I assume this will let me write both parsed and unparsed data to an ini without having to use some funky escape chars and the replace functions

 

[exspes007]

@Knightly but I assume this will let me write both parsed and unparsed data to an ini without having to use some funky escape chars and the replace functions

you assume correctly and a lot more then that.

 

[Knightly]

Yep, the selective parsing is the reason I wrote it and the implementation of it using #bind_noparse was to allow macro writers to more easily interface with user input using that selective parsing.

 

[ihc385]

you assume correctly and a lot more then that.

Yeah I found that out.... Thanks @Knightly for the 6AM pass out at the keyboard playing with this lol