On Sun, 8 Jul 2001 21:41:01 -0700
Januk Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Welcome. I'll take a stab at this question.
Thank you (and the others) for your quick and very accurate answer!
> http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
Yes, and I'm happy to report that it works with Netscape 4.7 (yesterday I
tried with Opera and Mozilla, no success):)
> SSV> So let's take the IF macro.
> You've probably chosen the hardest macro to learn. The %IF macro was
Maybe, but it's also very useful...
> only introduced in the last version or two. The general macro syntax
> was not designed to handle such a complex task. However, I'll answer
So this is the reason for the rather strange syntax. I thought it was a kind
of discrepancy between usual programming-language logic and the authors' own
one.
> The first level uses only one quotation mark: "..." or '...'
> The second level uses double delimiters: ""..."" or ''...''
> The third level: """...""" or '''...'''
Yes, after a couple of hours spent by browsing the beta-list archives (the
search engine can't deal with the % sign [nor can the FAQ's one]), I've
found a similar thread which suggested this aspect:
http://www.mail-archive.com/tbbeta@thebat.dutaint.com/msg12266.html ...wrote
by you:)
> Think of the arguments to any macro as a mini template. It is
> completely independant from the rest of your overall template. That
> means that if you want to use a regexp search, you must do the search
> inside the delimiters of the %IF macro.
You answer my new questions before I could ask them:) I'd no idea why my
%SETPATTREGEXP...
%REGEXPBLINDMATCH...
%IF:"%SUBPATT...
(which I used beacause it's more readable) didn't work...
But I still have a question for today. I noticed that some (let's say higher
level or general) macros like %LANGUAGE or %SINGLERE can't be used inside of
a quick template included by an %IF macro. So this won't work:
%IF:"string1"="string2":"%QINCLUDE=""English""":"%QUINCLUDE=""French"""
where English is a quick template which contains %LANGUAGE="AM"
But this will:
%IF:"string1"="string2":"%LANGUAGE=""AM""%QINCLUDE=""English""":"%QUINCLUDE=""French"""
Is there a general rule which macros can't be included this way and in which
situation (and why)?
Wait a minute... Is this because what you said about macro as a
mini-template? But if so, why did it screw up the result instead of being
silenty ignored (or having effect only inside of the included template)?
> SSV> a little bit frustrated because I'm unable to fully exploit
> SSV> the power of the software;-P
> It takes time. :-)
Well, I already am a 3-days-user:))
See you, Sandor; a grateful user who thinks that even if the on-line help
will be ameliorated, it will hardly beat this list.
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