Did "evaluate()" change from 11 to 11.5?

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On 22/01/2010 at 19:55, xxxxxxxx wrote:

User Information:
Cinema 4D Version:   11.5
Platform:      Mac OSX ;
Language(s) :   C.O.F.F.E.E ;

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Evaluate() functions differently in 11.5 than it did in previous versions and its killed many of my distributed plugins.

I've written a LOT of code in coffee that allows the user to specify values inside of the names in a hierarchy, or that pulls such values along with other useful information from a standardized file format outside of my controll. As long as the number, decimal point, whitespace, or negative sign was the first part of the name, I could use evaluate to extract the number. It seems a lot of my plugins are now broken with 11.5 because evaluate now returns a "nil" if the string being evaluated contains string values that are not numbers. Is this an error, or was I just taking advantage of an old leak that got fixed with 11.5?

For example you can quickly try this in a coffee tag, in versions 9.x to 11.027
main(doc,op)
{
println(" evaluation = ", evaluate("15_globular") );
}

prints evaluation = 15.000000 to the console
the exact same code in 11.5 prints "evaluation = nil" to the console

In a much bigger problem, evaluate in 11.5 fails to ignore certain tokens. I have distributed plugins that take a string parsed from a standard format like " -0.1365" and use evaluate to return the number -0.136500, but 11.5 sees the space:negative combination and returns a nil. I now have to parse the number and will have to update all of my plugins if evaluate will continue to function like this. Please tell me its a bug that will change on the next update.

To recap:                                           <11.025            11.5
evaluate("     .1365")                   0.136500          0.136500
evaluate("-.1365")                     -0.136500        -0.136500
evaluate(" -.1365")                    -0.136500           nil
evaluate(" -.1365_molecule")    -0.136500           nil

I personally hope we can return to the version that does lots of parsing automatically, but if not, I need to know what the new rules are so I don't keep producing shortcut code that will become obsolete.
Thanks,
Graham

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On 01/02/2010 at 17:31, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Any news on this? – Thanks, G

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On 02/02/2010 at 07:32, xxxxxxxx wrote:

This is intentional, otherwise you couldn't evaluate something like this, evaluate("pi05 * 3") , because the numbers of pi05 would be evaluated as well.

cheers,
Matthias

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On 02/02/2010 at 12:11, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Originally posted by xxxxxxxx

evaluate(" -.1365") -0.136500 nil

This case should work and therefore is under investigation.

Best regards,

Wilfried Behne