[ic] [if scratch...]

[Mat Jones - booksellersolutions.com]

I tried both methods you suggested, but it still didnt read the [scratch
count1] variable.
With the loop-alternate it just printed [loop-alternate [scratch count1]] to
the screen.
Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Mat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed LaFrance" <edl@newmediaems.com>
To: <interchange-users@lists.akopia.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [ic] [if scratch...]


> At 08:01 PM 02/28/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I am trying to compare scratch values in an if/elsif statement, and
> >tried the following code. I cannot get this to work. What I am trying do
> >to is get the results of a loop search to organize into two columns. The
> >first section is a loop to count the number of items in a list. if I
> >replace the '[scratch count1]' variable with a number, this works fine,
> >it just doesnt seem to recognise the [scratch] tag as part of the IF tag
> >evaluation. Can anybody help me out.
> >
> >[loop.....]
> >[seti count1][calc][scratch count1] + 1[/calc][/seti]
> >[/loop]
> >[seti count1][calc][scratch count1] / 2[/calc][/seti]
> >[seti count][/seti]
> ><table><tr><td>
> >[loop ....]
> >[seti count][calc][scratch count]  + 1[/calc][/seti]
> >[if scratch count < [scratch count1]] [loop-code]<br>
> >[elsif scratch count == [scratch count1]] [loop-code]<br></td><td>
> >[/elsif]
> >[/else] [loop-code]<br>[/else][/if]
> >[/loop]
> ></td></tr></table>
> >
> >Thanks
>
> In these situations it is best to used the named syntax for the [if..]:
>
> [if type="scratch" term="count" op="<" compare="[scratch count1]"]
> ..
> [elsif type="scratch term="count" op="==" compare="[scratch count1]"]
> ...
> [/elsif]
> [else]...[/else]
> [/if]
>
> BTW - Have you looked into [loop-alternate]? You could simplify this code
> considerably.  [if..]'s in looping code can slow page load time
dramantically.
>
> - Ed L.
>
>
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