Recursion/evaluating Strings Within Strings?

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Nexus:
So I recently released my Server Command Gui, which works great. My goal for version 3 was to make every aspect of the gui recursive, meaning it can be repeated infinitely and can account for any number of commands. As a part of this, I tried to change the way it constructed the command sent to the server.

This is the old way it sent the command:

--- Code: ---eval("commandtoclient('"@getword($command),0)@"', strreplace(getword($command,1),%find, %replace), ... ");
--- End code ---

With this method, I could support arguments that had more than one word, but I could only have as many arguments as I define in the script.

I tried to replace it with something kinda like this:

--- Code: ---%find = "_";
%replace = " ";
%cmd = "commandtoserver("@addtaggedstring(getword($command, 0));
for(%a=1; %a<getwordcount($command); %a++)
%cmd = %cmd @ "," @ strreplace(getword($command, %a), %find, %replace);
%cmd = %cmd @ ");";
eval(%cmd);
--- End code ---

This method worked for as many arguments as I could type into the text box, but when I tried to have an argument with more than one word, such as "messagesent hi_my_name_is_pedro" (note that "_" is replaced with " "), I would get a syntax error.

echoing %cmd would give me somthing like this:

--- Code: ---commandtoserver(58, hi my name is pedro);
--- End code ---

%cmd needs to look like this somehow

--- Code: ---commandtoserver(58, "hi my name is pedro");
--- End code ---
But that would mean I need two different kinds of strings within another string, and that doesn't make alot of sense to me.

I tried to look for a solution to this, but all I came up with was a vague reference to parse string or something.

Is it possible to write this, so the eval(); is able to evaluate the strings within the strings while still retaining the ability to support infinite recursion?

MegaScientifical:
%string = "\"" @ %string @ "\"";

Nexus:

--- Quote from: MegaScientifical on June 07, 2011, 06:50:34 PM ---%string = "\"" @ %string @ "\"";

--- End quote ---

I keep seeing stuff like that when I export my arrays, but I never knew what it was for.
are the double ""s mistakes or is that part of adding the backslashes?

MegaScientifical:
It's like if you said "I am a douch" and you wanted to put another quote in it, except you'd put "I am a douch, \"Steve\" as we might call you."

AKA yes. \" makes the " not get counted as part of code, but as string.

Nexus:

--- Quote from: MegaScientifical on June 07, 2011, 06:55:55 PM ---It's like if you said "I am a douch" and you wanted to put another quote in it, except you'd put "I am a douch, \"Steve\" as we might call you."

AKA yes. \" makes the " not get counted as part of code, but as string.

--- End quote ---

Ok, thanks a bunch!

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