Au3Stripper is unable to parse some ternary expressions

[anonymous]

Sorry if there is a ticket already to this issue but I didn't find it.
Tested on newest SciTE4AutoIt (and downloading Au3Stripper separately).

The docs say... and I quote: "Do not complain if using Au3Stripper prevented the script from working correctly" but this seriously has to be a joke, if not you may as well close this ticket.

Anyway...

As the title says Au3Stripper doesn't work on badly formatted ternary operations.

What do I mean by "badly"? Not using spaces after the : operator.

See these examples:

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Example 1 - No error (see *_stripped.au3)

#AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_Au3Stripper=y

Local $a = 1
Local $b = 2
Local $c = 3

MsgBox(0, 0, $a ? $b : $c)

Example 1 - Stripped Code:

Local $a = 1
Local $b = 2
Local $c = 3
MsgBox(0, 0, $a ? $b : $c)

No errors during compilation.

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Example 2 - Error (see *_stripped.au3)

#AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_Au3Stripper=y

Local $a = 1
Local $b = 2
Local $c = 3

MsgBox(0, 0, $a ? $b :$c)

Example 2 Stripped Code:

Local $a = 1
Local $b = 2
MsgBox(0, 0, $a ? $b :$c)

Error thrown:

warning: $c: possibly used before declaration.
error: $c: undeclared global variable.

Note that the interpreter doesn't mind this style (talking about the unstripped version) at all, it parses it without any hickups.

However, if you declare and define your variables like this (leaving out the MsgBox line to keep it short)

Local $a = 1, $b = 2, $c = 3

or this

Local $a = 1, $b = 2
$c = 3

it works with the stripper, but not if you add the scope to it:

Local $a = 1, $b = 2
Local $c = 3

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Also there is another error which removes the : completely, but you need to apply parameters (I don't know if these are the ones necessary or if it works with some of them (doesn't work for none))

Original

#AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_Au3Stripper=y
#Au3Stripper_Parameters=/sf /sv /rm

Local $a = 1, $b = 2, $c = 3

MsgBox(0, 0, $a ? $b: $c)

Stripped

Local $0 = 1, $1 = 2, $2 = 3
MsgBox(0, 0, $0 ? $3 $2)

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Repeting the first error with parameters:

First error (bad referencing this time)

#AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_Au3Stripper=y
#Au3Stripper_Parameters=/sf /sv /rm

Local $a = 1, $b = 2, $c = 3

MsgBox(0, 0, $a ? $b :$c)

Local $0 = 1, $1 = 2, $2 = 3
MsgBox(0, 0, $0 ? $1 :$c)

However this time (if you don't have a space after the : ) you can't solve it with not using a scope. It still references the original variable whose name was replaced by the stripper with $3.

[anonymous]

Oh and if you remove both spaces and use the parameters provided (in my example) it eats up one part of the ternary expression:

#AutoIt3Wrapper_Run_Au3Stripper=y
#Au3Stripper_Parameters=/sf /sv /rm

Local $a = 1, $b = 2, $c = 3

MsgBox(0, 0, $a ? $b:$c)

Local $0 = 1, $1 = 2, $2 = 3
MsgBox(0, 0, $0 ? $3)

[Jos]

Please try to current Beta version and see if that solves all your failing scenarios:
​https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/scite/download/beta_SciTE4AutoIt3/Au3Stripper.exe

Thanks for the report,
Jos

[anonymous]

I tested all three variations (front space missing, back space missing, both spaces missing) and all of them were stripped correctly and did not cause any errors while compiling reported by Au3Check.

Thank you very much, the beta version solved this issue.
Hopefully it will be merged into the new release.

[Jos]

Replying to anonymous:

Hopefully it will be merged into the new release.

Thanks for testing and it will be in the next version of SciTE4AutoIt3 installer.