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<stuff> doesn't work as an inner parenthesis
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:17 am
by ghostjmf
You know, when programmer-like you wanna contain a subparenthetical thought within an already parenthetical thought (like, I was thinking of whatever [& then I wanted to included whatsoever too]).
What I've done up there with (stuff [more stuff]) doesn't work at all if instead of brackets I put <stuff>. Or, what happens is only the 1st word of "stuff" is left. All my other most-eloquent words are lost into the ether, never to be reclaimed, unless of course I might have remembered them.
What hidden command of whatever system this board runs on have I incurred with "<>"?
Re: <stuff> doesn't work as an inner parenthesis
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:28 am
by MarleysGh0st
ghostjmf wrote: What hidden command of whatever system this board runs on have I incurred with "<>"?
phpbb seems to have some issues dealing with stuff inside those angle brackets, which is probably left over from those being the delimiters for HTML tags. Yes, it tends to truncate everything after the first space, as you noticed.
You could try substituting an underscore for a space <like_this> but that's not exactly natural or convenient.
Re: <stuff> doesn't work as an inner parenthesis
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:54 am
by Bob Juch
MarleysGh0st wrote:ghostjmf wrote: What hidden command of whatever system this board runs on have I incurred with "<>"?
phpbb seems to have some issues dealing with stuff inside those angle brackets, which is probably left over from those being the delimiters for HTML tags. Yes, it tends to truncate everything after the first space, as you noticed.
You could try substituting an underscore for a space <like_this> but that's not exactly natural or convenient.
Just check the box saying "Disable HTML in this post".
Re: <stuff> doesn't work as an inner parenthesis
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:56 am
by MarleysGh0st
Bob Juch wrote:MarleysGh0st wrote:ghostjmf wrote: What hidden command of whatever system this board runs on have I incurred with "<>"?
phpbb seems to have some issues dealing with stuff inside those angle brackets, which is probably left over from those being the delimiters for HTML tags. Yes, it tends to truncate everything after the first space, as you noticed.
You could try substituting an underscore for a space <like_this> but that's not exactly natural or convenient.
Just check the box saying "Disable HTML in this post".
<like this?>
Well, how about that!
