@Rustem - while I solved the original problem in another way, I really appreciate your reply and know(!) that I'll use this later on so thank you!
FYI, this made me post a new issue <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/issues/1769> asking to extend splitbefore to allow for specified number of characters to split at. @anyone else; Just for the record, if you instead use the following, it'll give the first sentence. <$list filter="[{SomeTextyTiddler}splitbefore[. ]]" variable="firstLine"><$text text=<<firstLine>>/></$list> <:-) On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 11:17:17 PM UTC+2, Rustem wrote: > > This is a bit late, but here’s my solution that returns the first line > (not paragraph), using nothing but core functionality. Copy it literally > (including new line as splitbefore’s parameter) into a test tiddler. > > <$list filter="[{$:/ControlPanel}splitbefore[ > ]]" variable="firstLine"><$text text=<<firstLine>>/></$list> > > —R > > On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 4:41:40 AM UTC-7, Mat wrote: > > @Mike - thank you for your input and sorry for late reply. >> >> With your pointers it does work now; http://match.tiddlyspot.com/ >> >> But I do suspect the use of $tw is inappropriate and he also comments >> that "/*global $tw: false */" which may be an indiction of this? I also >> get the surrounding brackets, which I'm guessing is a failed attempt att >> creating a link from the output? >> >> It seems like a very useful "Filter operator for picking parts out of >> fields using regular expressions" so hopefully someone will create a >> fully satisfying version eventually. >> >> FYI, I intended to use it to transclude the first paragraph for the ToDo >> list <http://fastnewtiddler.tiddlyspot.com/#Todo%20(please%20help)> in >> fastnewtiddler but instead went with using a solution from Tobias to >> transclude a field into the text that then appears to be the first >> paragraph in the tiddler text and is reused in the ToDo-list. A bit >> backward but... >> >> <:-) >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ed65119a-d870-49e3-a1b8-02514ebc9341%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
