Re: [mv] [IF] problems and "No such comparison available" errors

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>     ******

At 04:49 PM 2/21/2000 , you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Michael Bringle 
><mbringle@optum.com>     ******
>
>Hello,
>
>OS      : Solaris 2.7(x86)
>MiniVend: 3.14-5
>
>         I have a question based on the [IF] tag.  I tried for 8 hours to 
> get this to work, and was not successful even after consulting the FAQ 
> and manual.  I have a DB in the holding key words, who can see them, and 
> if they are "main categories":
>
>DATABASE catagory(TAB delimited):
>---------------------------------
>name    restricted_to   main_catagory
>England all     0
>Vacation        all     0
>Friends all     0
>Cornell all     1
>
>When I build the side menu I want to display the "name" if it is both a 
>main_catagory and in the users group.  I started out just worrying about 
>the first restriction but:
>
>         [tag each catagory]
>                 [if [loop-data catagory main_catagory] == 1]
>                         <B>[loop-code]</B>
>                         <BR>
>                 [/if]
>         [/tag]

So, name is unique for each entry?  Does MiniVend mind that category is 
misspelled?  Probably not, but check your code.  I would try using 'eq' 
instead of '==' and see if that doesn't make it work.  Numeric operations 
need numeric operators, right?  No such comparison available?  [Calc] is 
possibly converting numbers to strings.


>never worked and would always return all or none depending on the 
>comparison operator.  Error logs show a bunch of "No such comparison 
>available" errors.  What I finally got to work was:
>
>         [tag each catagory]
>                 [loop-next][calc][loop-data catagory main_catagory] == 
> 0[/calc][/loop-next]
>                 <B>[loop-code]</B>
>                 <BR> 
 >
>         [/tag]
>
>But I would like to know where I went wrong on the [IF] statement so I can 
>later add in more complex.  I tried various combinations of type, op and 
>the other codes but that also failed.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
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