Variable %s_original_name% not working properly

[ThomasM]

Hi,

I doscovered the following:

Whe I try to populate a variable to %s_original_name% the outcome is not correct in cas the name is an UUID:

Original Filename is: 12345678-1234-5678-8765-123456788765.avi
Var Archnumber set to

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%s_original_name%

gives: -123444458764 (obviously wrong)
Var Archnumber set to $

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left("%s_original_name%",36)

gives correct: 12345678-1234-5678-8765-123456788765

Trest-Workflow is attached.

Any ideas?

regards,
tom

[emcodem]

Hey Thomas, so good to hear from you!

Congratulations, you found a Bug And a pretty stupid one to be honest. I guess we will take such stuff into consideration for our new and shiny automated testing suite

Keep it coming, Steinar loves bugs hehe

[admin]

Hi ThomasM,

This is not a bug but behavior as expected. What you actually have here is a mathematical expression (stored in a string) and will be treated as such. So you should quote the "%s_original_name%" variable in order to treat it as literal string. Note that this is only needed in the "Populate" and "Conditional" nodes as these are the only ones trying to evaluate the text in the input fields.

Hope this helps.

-steinar

[ThomasM]

Moin emcodem,
Hey Steinar,

thanks for your help and for clearing things up.

regards
tom