Variables from token list with - in the name always return 0 value when using expr

[ProCycleDev]

I was attempting to read the state of a cookie with

<mvt:if expr="g.request_cookies:mm5-procycle-last-product-page">
true
<mvt:else>
false
</mvt:if>

Which would return false regardless of the actual content of the variable.
Meanwhile on the very same page

&mvte:global:request_cookies:mm5-procycle-last-product-page;

correctly displayed the content of the variable as expected.

After extensive testing I have discovered that any token with a - in the name will always return 0 such as

l.settings:urls:product-add:rr
l.settings:urls:product-add:secure

The - is used extensively in my site's cookies. I don't know where the cookie name is generated so I don't know if it's custom or not.
I will likely find & change the cookies to use _ instead of - but I figured the devs would want to know of this bug so it can be fixed.

[Brennan]

The reason for that is because the - is being interpreted as a subtraction sign when you are using it in the if statement. Miva is seeing a variable named g.request_cookies:mm5 subtracted from a variable named "procycle" - "last" -"product" - "page" which is why you're always getting false.

Updating the cookie name to use _ will fix it.

I haven't tested it but you may be able to do something like this as well. It takes in a string value and will evaluate that as a variable.

<mvt:if expr="miva_variable_value( 'g.request_cookies:mm5-procycle-last-product-page' )">
    true
<mvt:else>
    false
</mvt:if>

In general though you want to avoid using dashes in variables to prevent this from occurring when you need to use them in conditional statements.

[ProCycleDev]

I changed that custom cookie's name to remove the dashes but what about the autogenerated cookies?
mm5-procycle-basket-id
mm5-admin-session
mm5-admin-browserid

All of these contain dashes, and are set by the software. Is there code somewhere to change the cookie name? Why is the cookie named "htscallerid" named differently?

[ProCycleDev]

Oh also mm5-procycle-customer-session

[ProCycleDev]

I changed the name of the cookie I was setting to use underscores and now it works great.

I'm having a related problem thou. The basket session id cookie that miva sets contains dashes, so I cannot test to see if the cookie is set or not. It's name is mm5-procycle-basket-id.

Looking at some of your featured stores, this seems to be the case for all of them. Is there a way to change the cookie name? Otherwise is there a way to escape the - character? I tried \- since that's a common way to escape characters in other programming languages but it seems that's invalid.

I've been trying to fix a session bug with our custom setup but without access to the cookie it won't be possible to fix.

Thanks for the prompt reply!