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Using Chat Set Attribute to set a value as text

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I'm having trouble trying to set an attribute to read: "@{Dave|Strength" Replacing the @ with a ' works great to prevent the system from reading it as an attribute but when I replace the | with a # the system tries to parse the text so that "Strength" becomes the maximum value of the attribute.

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Jakob

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"#" is set to have the same functionality as "|", it is not  a replacement character. If you want to include a vertical bar inside the value of an attribute, you can escape it instead: "\|". (Side remark: if you want to replace @ you have to use "`" (slanted quote) or "\at", not "'" (single straight quote)).

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Dave Rake

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Thank you!

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Jakob

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You're welcome. Unfortunately the syntax can be a bit arcane at times, because I decided to write my own parser for the chat and because API scripts have to deal with roll20 automatically replacing parts of the input.

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Using Chat Set Attribute to set a value as text