Escape Dollar Sign Expansion

mjperreault — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:01:14 GMT

I have a need to display a string of text Incuding $("LoadingIcon") in a Text Box however when no matter what I try this part of the string is returning null because of Dollar Sign Expansion. I have read this community article but it does not seem to be working for me.

https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView-App-Development/Stop-Dollar-Sign-Expansion-in-the-script-Escape-Character/td-p/169162

In my script I have

SET A = $("LoadingIcon") ;

However this just returns NULL.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Mark

Re: Escape Dollar Sign Expansion

Lisa_P — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 23:26:49 GMT

I got the answer from the other article:

set vString = ~("LoadingIcon");

set vA = "=replace([vString],'~','$')";

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Escape Dollar Sign Expansion

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