Need to change the use of braces in RTF file

[hardsoft]

I need to change the braces for formatting in an RTF file

How can I use square brackets instead [ ]

Many thanks

Jeff

[axunonb]

Hi Jeff:
The square brackets are used to identify the index in a list. So changing the braces that identify Placeholders can't be done out-of-the-box. Also, the special characters are not part of the public API.

I gave it a try with the following ParserSettings and recompiling the source code:

/// <summary>
/// Gets the character indicating the start of a <see cref="Placeholder"/>.
/// </summary>
internal char PlaceholderBeginChar { get; } = '[';

/// <summary>
/// Gets the character indicating the end of a <see cref="Placeholder"/>.
/// </summary>
internal char PlaceholderEndChar { get; } = ']';

/// <summary>
/// Gets the character indicating the begin of formatter options.
/// </summary>
internal char FormatterOptionsBeginChar { get; } = '(';

/// <summary>
/// Gets the character indicating the end of formatter options.
/// </summary>
internal char FormatterOptionsEndChar { get; } = ')';

/// <summary>
/// Gets the character indicating the begin of a list index, like in "{Numbers[0]}"
/// </summary>
internal char ListIndexBeginChar { get; } = '`';

/// <summary>
/// Gets the character indicating the end of a list index, like in "{Numbers[0]}"
/// </summary>
internal char ListIndexEndChar { get; } = '´';

And then

var smart = Smart.CreateDefaultSmartFormat(new SmartSettings
{
    Parser = new ParserSettings {ErrorAction = ParseErrorAction.ThrowError, },
    Formatter = new FormatterSettings {ErrorAction = FormatErrorAction.ThrowError}
});
var data = new {
    One = 1,
    ChildOne = new {
        Two = 2,
        ChildTwo = new {
            Three = 3,
            ChildThree = new {
                Four = 4,
                Four2 = 42
            }
        }
    }
};
_ = smart.Format("[One][ChildOne.ChildTwo.Three]", data);
// Result: 13

So generally this should work at least for simple scenarios.
Chances are low, however, that this will make it into the public API.

[hardsoft]

Ok so is the an option to set another I just cannot use { and } as rtf uses these as the separators but happy to use any suitable set.

Many thanks for the reply.

Jeff