Blueprint special variable names and conversion to "_" in Skokum.

[EpicSkookumScript]

Issue by Andy2244
Friday Nov 15, 2019 at 15:49 GMT
Originally opened as https://github.com/SkookumScript/SkookumScript-Plugin/issues/18

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UE4 Version
Binary 4.23.1

SkookumScript Version
4.23.1-9631420

Describe the bug
I noticed that some packages from the asset-store frequently use special characters in there BP variable names, which all get converted to "_" or are ignored completely.

Rotation >
Rotation <
* Forward
- Forward
+ Forward

results in sk

 Real             rotation_    : 0.0
 Real             rotation_    : 0.0

 Boolean            forward?              : false
 Boolean            forward?              : false
 Boolean            forward?              : false

than we get this error:

A variable with the name 'rotation_' has already been created and is available in this scope and duplicate/shadowed variable names are not allowed.
Choose a different parameter name.

Expected behavior
While i can work around this in my own code, its quite hard/time consuming to fix those errors for asset-store stuff.
So maybe its a better idea to convert special characters to some ascii/hex representation?
Something like:
ascii

 Real             rotation_62    : 0.0
 Real             rotation_60    : 0.0

or Hex

 Real             rotation076    : 0.0
 Real             rotation074    : 0.0

This way each special character gets encoded to a compatible variable name, without creating duplicates.