From 144c59ccae878fc28e4030d7a8be1e7e1394b6ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: teh_coderer <me@tehcoderer.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:59:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] hotfix / Allow routine args inside lists (#5353)

* allow routine args inside lists

* add `-f` to `call_exe` parser
---
 openbb_terminal/routine_functions.py   | 2 +-
 openbb_terminal/terminal_controller.py | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/openbb_terminal/routine_functions.py b/openbb_terminal/routine_functions.py
index 0c0e05761ca..327ce81292b 100644
--- a/openbb_terminal/routine_functions.py
+++ b/openbb_terminal/routine_functions.py
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ def parse_openbb_script(
                 foreach_loop_found = True
 
             # Regular expression pattern to match variables starting with $
-            pattern = r"(?<!\$)(\$(\w+)(\[[^]]*\])?)(?![^\[]*\])"
+            pattern = r"(?<!\$)(\$(\w+)(\[[^\]]*\])?)(?=(?:[^\]]*\]*))"
 
             # Find all matches of the pattern in the line
             matches: Optional[List[Match[str]]] = re.findall(pattern, line)
diff --git a/openbb_terminal/terminal_controller.py b/openbb_terminal/terminal_controller.py
index 652c1f95b68..c92261eaed6 100644
--- a/openbb_terminal/terminal_controller.py
+++ b/openbb_terminal/terminal_controller.py
@@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ class TerminalController(BaseController):
         )
         parser.add_argument(
             "--file",
+            "-f",
             help="The path or .openbb file to run.",
             dest="file",
             required="-h" not in other_args