[mv] [if explicit][condition] troubles

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Hi. I'm having some trouble getting 'if explicit' to do what I think it
should do. If someone would help me out I'd be very grateful.

I've distilled my troubles down to a few test examples which hopefully
illustrate what I'm trying to do. Each of these examples give the wrong
result.

First, an if elsif else based on the value of a scratch varable...
(I don't suppose that I can do 'condition interpolate=1' can I?)

<h3> example one </h3>
 
[set test]5[/set]test == '[scratch test]'
[if explicit][condition]
  my $test = '[scratch test]';
  if ($test < 2) { return 0; }
  elsif ($test < 4) { return 0; }
  else { return 1; }
[/condition]
correct
[else]
incorrect
[/else]
[/if]


Next, why is it that the start of line anchor '^' or the end of line
anchor '$' mess up the regex matching?

<h3> example two </h3>


[set test]test[/set]test == '[scratch test]'
[if explicit][condition]
  my $username = '[scratch test]';
  if ($username =~ /^test$/) { return 1; }
  return 0;
[/condition]
correct
[else]
incorrect
[/else]
[/if]



Finally, I might as well show this; it's what I really want to accomplish
anyway.  The first two examples I only came up with during my attempts to
get this to work.

the problem with this one is that the condition is always true... I
imagine that if I could get example one and example two working this one
would work as well...
(I have a good imagination :)

<h3> what <i>really</i> I want to do </h3>

username == '[value mv_username]'
[if explicit][condition]
  my $username = '[value mv_username]';
  if ($username =~ /^guest$/ || $username =~ /^$/) { return 0; }
  else { return 1; }
[/condition]
$username =~ /^guest$/ || $username =~ /^$/
[else]
!($username =~ /^guest$/ || $username =~ /^$/)
[/else]
[/if]

Again, if there's anything that anyone can say to set me straight, I'll
really appreciate it.  I'm using mv 3.14-5 with perl 5.005_03 on linux.

Thanks,

-- Jonathan

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