On Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 11:36:52 AM UTC-7, Eric Shulman wrote:
>
>
> The "else" filter only works if the preceding filter produces NO result...
> but if the {!!name} field exists, it has a value... it's just blank text.
>
>
But that's not the puzzling situation. If *name* doesn't exist, then there
is NO output. I hadn't even checked the case where *name* exists but is
empty.
> In contrast, note that the documentation for "get[...]" (
> https://tiddlywiki.com/#get%20Operator) says this:
>
> If the corresponding tiddler contains field F, *and the value of this
>> field is not empty*, then its value is appended to the output.
>
>
> Thus, when you write "get[name]", if name is blank then there is *no
> filter result* -- as opposed to a value which happens to be blank.
>
> -e
>
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