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Usually, when you leave a value blank for input it puts that annoying 0 in it's place. Here's one way to avoid that:

thnx!

Isn't there (or maybe I should say shouldn't there be) a 'MT tips an tricks' spot on this forum where we can put these little tricks posts in?
I know I have posted a couple of nifty tricks like my 'auto-populate-token-with-macros' trick and I've seen numerous other that gradually get lost in the pit forum chaos. Only to be found if you know exactly what your looking for, though in most cases the tricks you will never look for them...

aliasmask wrote:Usually, when you leave a value blank for input it puts that annoying 0 in it's place. Here's one way to avoid that:

Sweet! That's always been a HUGE annoyance.
The only limitation, I suppose is that the variable name is visible as the prompt (and the variable name/contents must be StrProp-compatible).
:shrug: oh, well.
Still, Very clever

biodude wrote:The only limitation, I suppose is that the variable name is visible as the prompt (and the variable name/contents must be StrProp-compatible).

I had a similar problem with an input() I did to change token states. Having state names with blank inside quickly became an obvious problem at some point What I did was replacing blank characters with underscores in the states names, which I was able to replace() to get back the blank for a decent label. The replacement might not be possible in this case, but the underscore make for a quite readable trade-off.

Nice trick anyway. Thank you.

Maybe make a note of it on the wiki page for Wiki: input().

prestidigitator wrote:Maybe make a note of it on the wiki page for Wiki: input().

Done.

Thanks. I was too lazy to do it myself.