V7.8 changes affecting all or multiple products

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Text/Html statement enhancements

These features are added in Sirius Mods 7.8.

Tilde directives

as of Sirius Mods 7.8, certain Text/Html statement directives can be placed after a tilde character (~) inside curly braces ({ }) in any of the targeted text statements (which include AuditText, PrintText, TraceText, SetText, and ReturnText. For example, this statement sets %ls to the current time, embedded in hyphens.

 setText %ls = {~nocont}---{$time}---

Because the ~nocont directive was specified, the terminating hyphen is not treated as a continuation character.

The tilde directives that are allowed in targeted text statements are:

~exprE

Sets the expression end characters. This directive must be followed by a space and then the expression start characters. For example, {~expre >} sets the expression end characters to a single greater-than sign (>). ~exprE can also be written as ~exprEnd. Note that the ~exprE directive must be ended by the expression end characters in effect before the ~expre directive is processed.

~exprS

Sets the expression start characters. This directive must be followed by a space and then the expression start characters. For example, {~exprs <} sets the expression start characters to a single less-than sign (<). ~exprS can also be written as ~exprStart.

~noCont

Indicates that a trailing hyphen is not treated as a continuation character. ~noCont can also be written as ~noContinuations.

~noEll

Indicates that a trailing ellipsis (...) is not treated as a partial-line indicator. Because it makes no sense to end a SetText or ReturnText with an ellipsis, this is the default for those two statements. So, while allowed, a ~noEll directive is completely unnecessary for SetText and ReturnText. ~noEll can also be written as ~noEllipses.

~noExpr

Indicates that no expressions are to be processed after the directive, and that everything after the ~noExpr directive is treated as literal text. No further tilde directives will be processed after a ~noExpr. ~noExpr can also be written as ~noExpressions.

~raw

Acts as if ~noCont, ~noEll, and ~noExpr are specified simultaneously. Note that this is slightly different from the Raw directive on the Text/Html statement, which also implies NoDum/NoDummy. Because dummy string substitution applies to lines before they are parsed, dummy string substitution would already have happened in any single-line Text statement before the ~raw directive was processed.

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