Feature request: merge function!

[Keith Clarke]

I don’t know the setting but might a line or two of preprocessing allow LC to replace the (specific) strings in the template with curly brackets into ones with square brackets for processing?
Best,
Keith   

> On 18 Jan 2019, at 09:33, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> David Bovill wrote:
> 
> > I would love to be able to change the characters that merge uses -
> > especially from “[[..]]” to “{{...}}”.
> >
> > Quite a lot of templating uses curly brackets - and I especially want
> > to use it for wiki style templates which can’t use square brackets as
> > they are used for internal links.
> 
> Only LC can process the LC-specific code inside of its brackets.  With the current setup it allows LC to be used very gracefully as a preprocessor with curly-bracket-based systems, so LC processes its stuff without stepping on directives for other processors.
> 
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