Thank you Jed, I have not used the lookup operator, seems promising. I will give a try.
Best wishes Mohammad On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 2:41 PM Jed Carty <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't see anything wrong with using that macro, but I do have an > alternative that I think is more flexible. > Depending on the situation this may not work, but here is the same result > using lookup: > > \define myfun(x) > <$vars u={{{ [<__x__>lookup:$x$ doesn't exist[value ]] }}} > \end > > then you make a series of tiddlers with the titles 'value one', 'value > two', 'value three' with 1, 2 and 3 in their text fields. > > The downside is that you can't distribute it as just the macro, the > benefit is that you can extend it to as many options as you want without > editing the macro. > > On Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 11:34:00 AM UTC+1 Mat wrote: > >> Very minor but for readability you can break the line in multiple places. >> >> <:-) >> >> On Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 11:24:58 AM UTC+1 Mohammad wrote: >> >>> I tried to implement the below pseudo code in TW 5.1.23 >>> >>> if x=one then >>> print(1) >>> elseif x=two then >>> print(2) >>> elseif x=three then >>> print(3) >>> else >>> print(x is not valid) >>> end >>> >>> with >>> >>> \define myfun(x) >>> <$vars u={{{[<__x__>match[one]then[1]] [<__x__>match[two]then[2]] >>> [<__x__>match[three]then[3]] +[addsuffix[ lili]] ~[<__x__>addsuffix[ is >>> not valid]]}}} > >>> This is u: <<u>> >>> </$vars> >>> \end >>> >>> It works fine on https://tiddlywiki.com/ by calling macro as below >>> >>> <<myfun one>> >>> <<myfun two>> >>> <<myfun three>> >>> <<myfun four>> >>> >>> I wish to know is this a good practice in TW 5.1.23? If not what better >>> solution do you propose? >>> >>> >>> Best wishes >>> Mohammad >>> >> -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/63dedb45-c31a-4a78-9733-caecd865df0an%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/63dedb45-c31a-4a78-9733-caecd865df0an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAAV1gMBXmJwitFQsxrx98Ropx3jW2tr9eYJbGn4G3PQ2Trc2iQ%40mail.gmail.com.
