[basicprofiles] Fix inability to filter a percent QuantityType input

[jimtng]

Normally to filter the values of QuantityType inputs, the conditions are written as > min_value, e.g. > 100 W. However, when the QuantityType is a percent, writing it as > 10 % caused the statefilter parser to think it's a $DELTA_PERCENT check instead of checking the actual input value.

This is a bug and a problem, preventing the state filter from being used to filter a percent quantity type.

This PR fixes this problem by adding a new $INPUT function which can be used in this situation to help the parser, so the condition needs to be rewritten as $INPUT > 10 % to achieve "input-value-filter" instead of "delta-percent-filter".

This should be backported to 4.3

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[lsiepel]

Are you sure there is no better solution? To be clear I don’t have any 😀I suspect that it is counter intuitive for users to have a different declaration for this case.

[jimtng]

The other alternative I can think of is to remove the handy > 1% syntax for delta percent.

[jimtng]

Let me sleep on it first... (literally).

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[jimtng]

@lsiepel Thanks, I've created #18121 as another solution to the issue.