[Templates] Syntax question

[Birgit Kellner]

This is a general syntax question - apologies if it is too general for 
this list.

In a foreach-loop through a list of information about persons, I want to 
print out the name of a person only if no entry for that person has been 
printed before. This is the case if no entry with precisely the same 
first name and the same last name has been printed right before the 
present one.

Initially I had set up the loop like this:

<% foreach g in guests %>
<% if printed_name == g.lastname) %>
<p><% if g.title %><% g.title %> <% end %><% g.firstname %> <% 
g.lastname %><br/>
Institution: <% g.Institution %><br/>
<% set printed_lastname = g.lastname %>
<% end %>
Zeit: <% g.Datum %><br/>
Finanzierung: <% g.Finanzierung %><br/>
Aktivit&auml;t: <% g.Beschreibung %>.
</p>
<% end %>

Now I have a case with two people with the same last name, but different 
first names.
I thought I should best set the variable "printed_lastname" to a string 
consisting of g.firstname and g.lastname, and then test against that, 
but what syntax can I use?

<% set printed_lastname = 'g.firstname g.lastname' %># interprets 
variable values as literals
<% set printed_lastname = g.firstname g.lastname %># produces syntax error

Thanks in advance,

Birgit Kellner





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