Re: [mv] [if] tag question

["Gideon van Gelder" <gideon@swingmaster.nl>]

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> List:
>
> I have a question regarding the [if] tag in Minivend 4.04.
>
> I have a loop stepping through a file, and I would like to do a
conditional
> on a value in the current iteration.  The loop variable I want to check is
> named "box-code".  If I just put [box-code] in the file and view it, it
> displays the value correctly.  However, when I try to use [if] to find out
> if the variable is equal to the string 'Categories', nothing happens.
I've
> tried ever variant of the if statement that I can think of, eg: [if value
> box-code="Categories"], [if box-code="Categories"], [if
> [box-code]="Categories"], [if box-code =~ m/Categories/], et al.  I would
> appreciate any help -- the documents aren't helping me much.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Brian Hanley
> Parrett Internet Technologies

Dear Brian,

I answered this a couple of weeks ago. (you know you can search this list
for previous answered messages concerning any topic and it's in the docs
too, of course)

the answer is [if type=value term="box-code" op="=~" compare="Categories"]

I hope this helps,

-Gideon




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