Forums Bug Reports /hload bug

Say this is the contents of file.txt:

Item
Data
Item2
Data
Item3
Data

--
then /hload it
//echo -a $hget(table,Item)
it will not echo "data" unless you do //echo -a $hget(table,1)
because of the space before "Data" this happens.

(Solution: Remove space)
Just reporting it.
No reply needed.

When I posted, it stripped the space..
There should be a space right before "Data" on all those lines.

It seems to work fine for me here, with or without spaces infront of the data lines.

I'll do a few more tests so it can be recreated more easily

Found it.
Here it is definitly
space is denoted by "_"
Item_
Data
Item2_
Data

hload that
//echo -a $hget(table,item)
shows: nothing
//echo -a $hget(table,item_)
shows: nothing
//echo -a $hget(table,item $+ $chr(32) $+ )
shows: Data

This may or may not be a bug
You decide

I wouldn't call that a bug as such, it's just the way mIRC works (ignoring leading/trailing whitespace).

but that is just it, its loading the whitespace from the file, which doesnt seem natual to mIRC

Well the whitespace is ignored in code (presumably) because it allows the scripter to format it a little more clearly to increase readability. However /hload is only meant to take text from a file which was previously written to using /hsave, so it makes sense that mIRC be stricter in it's interpretation of text.

The only way I'd see this as a true bug was if the space wasn't in the item name when it was saved but is when it is loaded. Which you might've been saying all along and I misunderstood.

I generated the file and had something along the lines of
/write file.txt item $lf data
I changed to item $+ $lf $+ data
but I still felt the need to report it

well
it takes the space after Item
but it doesnt take the space before Data
so if Item_ can be referenced with $+ $chr(32) $+
shouldn't _Data be loaded as _Data and not Data?

Understand or should I rephrase all that?

whats wrong with using /hsave to generate the file.

Nothing, but I didnt generated it from a hash table.

Its a /help script I made, generated from first doing /filter on all my .mrc files and finding ALIAS and then finding ";text" in the alias, and then generates a file to /hload
It hloads it because, I keep the original file in alphabetical order for a certain purpose.