Script not accepting a carriage return

[mark.martinezECRPT]

I am trying to use a script to plot but when the script gets to the layout name, I cannot get the script to accept the default with a carriage return (after the first _Yes command).  Instead, it tries to use the next line for the name of the layout name.  I have hit enter once, twice, once with "" but nothing seems to work.

(setq draw_address(getvar "dwgprefix"))
(setq draw_name(getvar "dwgname"))
(setq draw_len (strlen draw_name))
(setq draw_name (strcat (substr draw_name 1 (- draw_len 4))".pdf"))
(setq draw_name (strcat draw_address draw_name ))
;;
(if(="Model" (getvar "ctab"))
(command "_-plot"
"_Yes"

"DWG To PDF_bsize.pc3"
"ANSI full bleed B (17.00 x 11.00 Inches)"
"_Inches"
"_Landscape"
"_No"
"_Extents"
"1:1"
"_C"
"_Yes"
"my_standard_plt.ctb"
"_Yes"
"_No"
"_Yes"
"_No"
draw_name
"_No"
"_Yes")
(command "_-plot"
"_Yes"

"DWG To PDF_bsize.pc3"
"ANSI full bleed B (17.00 x 11.00 Inches))"
"_Inches"
"_Landscape"
"_No"
"_Extents"
"1:1"
"_C"
"_Yes"
"my_standard_plt.ctb"
"_Yes"
"_No"
"_Yes"
"_No"
draw_name
"_No"
"_Yes"))
))

[Kent1Cooper]

An AutoLisp routine is not a Script -- the word has a specific meaning in AutoCAD, and this isn't it.

Within an AutoLisp (command) function, Enter is represented by "", not an actual carriage return as in a Script.  Try this approach:

....

(command "_-plot"
"_Yes"

""

""
"DWG To PDF_bsize.pc3"

....

But I'm skeptical....  If this is a real Script in a .scr file, I don't think you can do the (if) thing with 'then' and 'else' arguments.  Some AutoLisp functions can go into command macros or scripts, but I'm not sure about that one.  I think you may need to make it an all-out AutoLisp routine defining a command name, and then use that command rather than a Script file.

[And in a Script, none of those text entries except maybe the ones with spaces within them would need the quotation marks, but maybe they don't hurt.]

[mark.martinezECRPT · Accepted solution]

Yes, it's an .scr file.  I did find my mistake.  I had an extra parathesis in the second plot command.