Re: Nested vs conditional

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 10793
interpreted = N
texte = >>Trying to do a [showif[var] does not contain A or B or C or X or Y] > >Sorry, there is no syntax for this in [ShowIf] -- multiple not-contains is >a little beyond its scope at the moment. But you can use a little math >trick to do the same thing: > >[math]totalFound=0[/math] > >[showif [var]^A][math]totalFound=totalFound+1[/math][/showif] >[showif [var]^B][math]totalFound=totalFound+1[/math][/showif] >[showif [var]^C][math]totalFound=totalFound+1[/math][/showif] >[showif [var]^X][math]totalFound=totalFound+1[/math][/showif] >[showif [var]^Y][math]totalFound=totalFound+1[/math][/showif] > >[showif [math]totalFound[/math]!0] >[var] contains at leat one of A,B,C,X,Y >[/showif] > >Basically this increments a variable every time something is found. You >may have to change the logic for your needs, perhaps using [HideIf] >instead. Perfect, should do the trick exactly the way I wanted it to.Thanks=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com =============================================== Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Nested vs conditional (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
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>>Trying to do a [showif[var] does not contain A or B or C or X or Y] > >Sorry, there is no syntax for this in [showif] -- multiple not-contains is >a little beyond its scope at the moment. But you can use a little math >trick to do the same thing: > >[math]totalFound=0[/math] > >[showif [var]^A][math]totalFound=totalFound+1[/math][/showif] >[showif [var]^B][math]totalFound=totalFound+1[/math][/showif] >[showif [var]^C][math]totalFound=totalFound+1[/math][/showif] >[showif [var]^X][math]totalFound=totalFound+1[/math][/showif] >[showif [var]^Y][math]totalFound=totalFound+1[/math][/showif] > >[showif [math]totalFound[/math]!0] >[var] contains at leat one of A,B,C,X,Y >[/showif] > >Basically this increments a variable every time something is found. You >may have to change the logic for your needs, perhaps using [hideif] >instead. Perfect, should do the trick exactly the way I wanted it to.Thanks=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com =============================================== grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter)

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