Binding Reference for Format Expressions $ question

[nzdreamer55]

Hello everyone,

So I am trying to write format expressions for use through the CLI and I am confused by the $ that I see sometimes. I cannot tell when to use it or why. Some examples show things like

{ [$vf]}

See here http://filebot.sourceforge.net/forums/v ... 5&t=2#p783

and then there are other time when there isn't a $

{ac}

See here the last one before Okam posts http://filebot.sourceforge.net/forums/v ... =5&t=2#p51

Could you help me understand when I should use it and when I shouldn't? I cannot figure it out from the examples

Thanks again
-S

[rednoah]

Read this:
http://groovy.codehaus.org/Strings+and+GString

e.g. GString expressions

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{"The file $file has ${file.length()} bytes"}

is the same as

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{'The file ' + file + ' has ' + file.length() + ' bytes'}

As you can see $var allows you to build variables and code into String expressions.


PS: This is wrong [$vf]. It's either [vf] (array-definition) or "[$vf]" (string-definition).