Name

lookup — perform lookup in another database

DESCRIPTION

The filter performs a lookup in another database.

See the section called “EXAMPLES” for clarification.

EXAMPLES

Example: Filter example

Suppose we have two databases, products and support, as follows:

code	price	description
144	12	Item 144
145	84	Item 145
146	314	Item 146

and

code	product_supported
144	0
145	1
146	-1

Then, performing [filter lookup.support.product_supported]144[/filter] would yield 0.


NOTES

AVAILABILITY

lookup is available in Interchange versions:

4.6.0-5.9.0 (git-head)

SOURCE

Interchange 5.9.0:

Source: code/Filter/lookup.filter
Lines: 18


# Copyright 2002-2007 Interchange Development Group and others
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# 
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# $Id: lookup.filter,v 1.4 2007-03-30 23:40:44 pajamian Exp $

CodeDef lookup Filter
CodeDef lookup Description DB lookup
CodeDef lookup Routine <<EOR
sub {
my ($val, $tag, $table, $column) = @_;
return tag_data($table, $column, $val) || $val;
}
EOR

AUTHORS

Interchange Development Group

SEE ALSO

DocBook! Interchange!