Thanks TW Tones for your help, appreciate it
Regards
On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 1:27:15 AM UTC+2, TW Tones wrote:
>
> Mohammad, FYI
>
> The filter used to set msa is by default responsible for returning titles,
> tiddler titles,
>
> Unless it was delimited as we see in the result with the square brackets,
> we would not know where the title began and ended, and your result would
> not be a tiddler link in the result on screen.
>
> The Text widget is letting us see this value exactly as it is.
>
> Rather than using set you could use wikify.
>
> An important lesson here is that the value is not always what it seems, so
> sometimes you need to take an additional step to ensure it is appropriate
> for a subsequent test like a filter.
>
> \define varname() $(var)$/{{!!feildname}}
> <$wikify name=varname2 text="""<<varname>""">
> ... [all[current[addprefix<varname2>] ...
> </$wikify>
> Thus we wikify the value at the last moment to ensure it works inside our
> filter.
>
> Saq,
> Interesting work around there using the select, this has some potential
> for different use cases. Thanks for showing this.
>
> Regards
> Tones
>
>
>
> On Friday, 2 October 2020 00:32:19 UTC+10, Mohamed Amin wrote:
>>
>> Thanks a lot Saq for your quick answer,
>>
>> I've spent the last 2 hours trying and telling to myself : don't be
>> silly, it seems very simple.
>> What I'm saying now is : may be I could figure it out in 2 days. :)
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> On Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 4:16:12 PM UTC+2, Saq Imtiaz wrote:
>>>
>>> <$set name="msa" filter="[[My Tiddler]get[address1]]" select="0">
>>> <$text text=<<msa>>/>
>>> </$set>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 4:09:14 PM UTC+2, Mohamed Amin wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello All,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Suppose that I've a Tiddler called "myTiddler" with 2 fields :
>>>>
>>>> 1. address1 = 14 My St.
>>>> 2. address2 = MyTown
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I need to get those values using filters, so I tried :
>>>>
>>>> <$set name="msa" filter="[[My Tiddler]get[address1]]" >
>>>> <$text text=<<msa>>/>
>>>> </$set>
>>>>
>>>> The Output is = [[14 My St.]]
>>>>
>>>> <$set name="msa" filter="[[My Tiddler]get[address2]]" >
>>>> <$text text=<<msa>>/>
>>>> </$set>
>>>>
>>>> The Output is = MyTown
>>>>
>>>> So, Why the "[[]]" is showing up in the first case? and How can I get
>>>> the filed value without it?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>>
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