Re: [if] and [showif] - A solution

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2002

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texte = It's just by chance that your [showif] example gave you the expected result, since the fetched text likely contains operators - < > ! = etc.ALWAYS URL any values in if / showif / hideif that could conceivably contain any syntactically important characters.- brianAt 12:41 AM +0000 11/14/02, Mark Derrick wrote:>on 13/11/02 10:48 pm, Rob Marquardt at rob@toastdesign.com wrote:>>> on 11/13/02 4:20 PM, Mark Derrick at mark.derrick@computerwarehouse.co.uk so>> noted...>>>>> Bizarrely, the retrieved data didn't contain quotations, although it did>>> contain a couple of hashes right at the end, which I assume may have caused>>> the problem.>>>>>> What confuses me though, is why [if[ was bothered about it, yet [showif]>>> wasn't>>>> When I hit that code, it returned a number of HTML links, which had piles>> and piles of quote marks in them. : )>>>>>> Rob Marquardt>> Designer/Resident Wirehead>> Toast Design>>>>Yup, you're right, forgot about those. Doh!>>I guess I'd got too used to the idea that [if] could be used in the exact>same way as [showif], forgetting that [if] is much more flexible.>(Which is one of the reasons I wanted to use it for this task!)>>Thanks for everyone's help.-- <= Brian C. Fries, BrainScan Software http://www.brainscansoftware.com =>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: [if] and [showif] - A solution (Brian Fries 2002)
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Re: [if] and [showif] - A solution (Mark Derrick 2002)
Re: [if] and [showif] - A solution (Mark Derrick 2002)
Re: [if] and [showif] - A solution (Rob Marquardt 2002)
Re: [if] and [showif] - A solution (Donovan 2002)
Re: [if] and [showif] - A solution (Mark Derrick 2002)
Re: [if] and [showif] - A solution (John Peacock 2002)
Re: [if] and [showif] - A solution (Grant Hulbert 2002)
Re: [if] and [showif] - A solution (Mark Derrick 2002)

It's just by chance that your [showif] example gave you the expected result, since the fetched text likely contains operators - < > ! = etc.ALWAYS URL any values in if / showif / hideif that could conceivably contain any syntactically important characters.- brianAt 12:41 AM +0000 11/14/02, Mark Derrick wrote:>on 13/11/02 10:48 pm, Rob Marquardt at rob@toastdesign.com wrote:>>> on 11/13/02 4:20 PM, Mark Derrick at mark.derrick@computerwarehouse.co.uk so>> noted...>>>>> Bizarrely, the retrieved data didn't contain quotations, although it did>>> contain a couple of hashes right at the end, which I assume may have caused>>> the problem.>>>>>> What confuses me though, is why [if[ was bothered about it, yet [showif]>>> wasn't>>>> When I hit that code, it returned a number of HTML links, which had piles>> and piles of quote marks in them. : )>>>>>> Rob Marquardt>> Designer/Resident Wirehead>> Toast Design>>>>Yup, you're right, forgot about those. Doh!>>I guess I'd got too used to the idea that [if] could be used in the exact>same way as [showif], forgetting that [if] is much more flexible.>(Which is one of the reasons I wanted to use it for this task!)>>Thanks for everyone's help.-- <= Brian C. Fries, BrainScan Software http://www.brainscansoftware.com =>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Brian Fries

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