Hi!

I'm using a Detail Wrangle to generate a Mel script to be used in Maya. There's one line that Houdini hates. It's this:

$createSetResult = `sets -name "column"`; (the Mel script I'm trying to create)

I had three problems:
- quotes(")
- dollar symbol($)
- backticks(`)

For the quotes("), I can simply use a chs("quote_symbol") so I cant place a quote in that channel instead of writting it directly in the script. For the dollar symbol($), same thing but I change the Expression Language to Python instead of Hscript (icon top right).

The backtick(`) is my biggest probleme. I can't use it directly in the script and I cant use it in a chs() (python or Hscript). What option do I have?

-Olivier

Can't you use sprintf() to achieve the formatting you're looking for?

Another common way of not thinking about where to put slashes for proper escaping is to simply say that our entire string is raw.

Super, this works!

I just never used any print functions before. I'm not 100% sure of what it does.

Thanks.

-Olivier

That's cool, Alex. I knew about raw strings in python. I didn't realize you could leverage them inside VEX as well.

I believe sprintf() is an implementation of the printf() function found in the C language. There are a lot of additional modifiers you can add to format number and letters inside a string.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/printf-in-c/ [www.geeksforgeeks.org]