Bug: Variable with Parameters in Form Fields Disappear

A TWikiForms text field handles %THISTYPE% variable OK, but not if you try %THATTYPE{...}% with parameters:

• Preview is OK
• After save you see an empty text field

Test case

Add %SERVERTIME{ "$day $mon $year $hou:$min" }% to any text field of a TWiki form.

Environment

-- PeterThoeny - 17 Jan 2004

Follow up

The bug happens because the regular expression extracting the meta data from topics does a non-greedy scan for }%, which stops inside a text field value in case it contains a variable like in:

%META:FIELD{name="Test" title="Test" value="...<= stops here"}%

Fix record

Fix is in TWikiAlphaRelease and TWiki.org

*** b/lib/TWiki/Meta.pm 2003-10-18 08:37:49.000000000 -0700
--- a/lib/TWiki/Meta.pm 2004-01-17 00:23:58.000000000 -0800
***************
*** 299,305 ****
      my $newText = "";

      foreach ( split( /\n/, $text ) ) {
!         if( /^%META:([^{]+){([^}]*)}%/ ) {
              my $type = $1;
              my $args = $2;
              my %list = _keyValue2Hash( $args );
--- 299,305 ----
      my $newText = "";

      foreach ( split( /\n/, $text ) ) {
!         if( /^%META:([^{]+){(.*)}%$/ ) {   # greedy match for ending "}%"
              my $type = $1;
              my $args = $2;
              my %list = _keyValue2Hash( $args );

-- PeterThoeny - 17 Jan 2004