Re: quotation marks needed?
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2000
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = >John Peacock: >Since you didn't tell us what the field contains, but it is always a >good idea to wrap both sides of a comparison with [url] like this: > >[If [url][var1][/url]=[url][var2][/url]]....var1 contained the string: lacie var2 contained the string: lacieI've already tried the [url][var1][/url]=[url][var2][/url] thing, but it didn't work;>WebCat interprets all field/variables and then resolves the [if] itself. >If either field contains a special character (like !=<>), the test will >get confused by the extra character. ok (it is not my case, my values are simple strings with normal chars)>You should never wrap the test >variables with quotes, unless you are using the XML style tags, in which >case all terms must be quoted.I'm not using the XML style tags; I did that quotation trick after reading a mail in at search.smithmicro.com, and it did work! here's the mail:------------------start quote:1999/02/05 20:24:49 Kenneth Grome Re: Protect and Serve >Sounds like [ShowIf] doesn't deal very well if there is nothing before the >comparison operator. Try turning the comparisons around: ..... >Or put some kind of identical character(s) on both sides of the comparison, such as quotation marks for example ... [ShowIf [username]!Some_Username] [authenticate] [/ShowIf] [ShowIf [password]!Some_Password] [authenticate] [/ShowIf] Sincerely, Ken Grome ------------------end quote:what does Ken think about that? tnxs _ _ |_)| / \ |_)|_\_/------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>John Peacock: >Since you didn't tell us what the field contains, but it is always a >good idea to wrap both sides of a comparison with [url] like this: > >[If [url][var1][/url]=[url][var2][/url]]....var1 contained the string: lacie var2 contained the string: lacieI've already tried the [url][var1][/url]=[url][var2][/url] thing, but it didn't work;>WebCat interprets all field/variables and then resolves the [if] itself. >If either field contains a special character (like !=<>), the test will >get confused by the extra character. ok (it is not my case, my values are simple strings with normal chars)>You should never wrap the test >variables with quotes, unless you are using the XML style tags, in which >case all terms must be quoted.I'm not using the XML style tags; I did that quotation trick after reading a mail in at search.smithmicro.com, and it did work! here's the mail:------------------start quote:1999/02/05 20:24:49 Kenneth Grome Re: Protect and Serve >Sounds like [showif] doesn't deal very well if there is nothing before the >comparison operator. Try turning the comparisons around: ..... >Or put some kind of identical character(s) on both sides of the comparison, such as quotation marks for example ... [ShowIf [username]!Some_Username] [authenticate] [/ShowIf] [ShowIf [password]!Some_Password] [authenticate] [/ShowIf] Sincerely, Ken Grome ------------------end quote:what does Ken think about that? tnxs _ _ |_)| / \ |_)|_\_/------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
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