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Hyphenated item script container names

See original GitHub issue

Item scripts fail if they contain a hyphen. If it’s changed to an underscore it works as expected.

test-hyphen:
  type: item
  display name: hyphen
  material: i@iron_chestplate

[14:40:12 INFO]: Nilsentience issued server command: /ex narrate <i@test-hyphen.material>
[14:40:12 INFO]:  Starting InstantQueue 'EXCOMMAND_MaritimeJewelryShowing'... 
[14:40:12 INFO]:  Queue 'EXCOMMAND_MaritimeJewelryShowing' Executing: NARRATE "<i@test-hyphen.material>" 
[14:40:12 INFO]: +- Executing dCommand: NARRATE/p@Nilsentience ---------+ 
[14:40:12 INFO]: +> [dItem] valueOf dItem returning null: test-hyphen 
[14:40:12 INFO]:  ERROR! i@test-hyphen is an invalid dObject! 
[14:40:12 INFO]:  Filled tag <i@test-hyphen.material> with 'i@test-hyphen.material'. 
[14:40:12 INFO]:  ERROR! Tag <i@test-hyphen.material> is invalid! 
[14:40:12 INFO]: +> Executing 'NARRATE': Narrating='i@test-hyphen.material'  Targets='[p@Nilsentience]' 
[14:40:12 INFO]:  Completing queue 'EXCOMMAND_MaritimeJewelryShowing' in 3ms.

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

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mcmonkey4evacommented, Apr 4, 2016

I’m not sure why it wouldn’t actually work… just like… good practice to never include random symbols in your script titles, variable names, etc.

Keep it: A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _

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Morphan1commented, Apr 4, 2016

I’m confused. Why is that symbol disallowed anyway? I don’t remember there ever being anything in place to prevent it on our side. In fact, I used it multiple times in scripts some time ago and it worked just fine, although those were probably task scripts I guess.

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