Sortsub applies a filter in turn to each input title separately. The docs do mention this I believe. So the input to the filter each time is a single title.
Subfilter applies a filter once with the input being a title list of all input titles. On Friday, April 30, 2021 at 10:53:52 AM UTC+2 jn.pierr...@gmail.com wrote: > Nestling, in such a way anyway, is something I had not thought about. > > In fact, this is only a part of the pipeline. Can I get back a united > output afterwards? I'll experiment and if I'm at loss, I'll post again. > > A question remains for me: Why is "split + last" apparently working on so > different data when called by sortsub or subfilter? Aren't they just > calling a filter? What is causing the diffirence? I think it would be wise > and good for me to understand what cause the difference in behavior of such > similar patterns. > > regards, > > -- > Jean-Pierre > Le vendredi 30 avril 2021 à 07:15:37 UTC+2, TW Tones a écrit : > >> Jean-Pierre; >> >> I am not sure about your requirement, but try these >> >> <$list filter="[enlist[a1^a2 b1^b2 c1^c2]]"> >> {{{ [<currentTiddler>split[^]first[]] }}} >> </$list> >> <hr> >> <$list filter="[enlist[a1^a2 b1^b2 c1^c2]]"> >> <$list filter="[<currentTiddler>split[^]first[]]"> >> >> </$list> >> </$list> >> <hr> >> <$list filter="[enlist[a1^a2 b1^b2 c1^c3]split[^]]"> >> >> </$list> >> <hr> >> <$list filter="[[a1^a2 b1^b2 c1^c3]split[ ]split[^]]"> >> >> </$list> >> >> I was recently considering a similar problem, when someone was >> questioning nesting list widgets, when I realised the $list with filters >> can act as gosub, while, do until etc... so nesting them is by definition >> sometimes a logical requirement depending what you are trying to achieve >> with your filters. Nesting is not easy or possible in many cases with >> triple curly braces. >> >> Regards >> Tones >> >> On Friday, 30 April 2021 at 07:15:04 UTC+10 jn.pierr...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> Toying with filters, I discovered that the split operator agglomerates >>> its results when ist operates on successive titles. >>> >>> for instance : {{{ [enlist[a1^a2 b1^b2 c1^c2]split[^][]first[]] }}} >>> results in a1 not in a1, b1, c1 >>> >>> a sufilter dos not change anything: >>> >>> <$vars sf="[split[^]dump[]first[]]"> >>> {{{ [enlist[a1^a2 b1^b2 c1^c2]subfilter<sf>] }}} >>> </$vars> >>> >>> In fact, in each case, after split, the filter values are a1, a2, b1, >>> b2, c1, c2. >>> >>> could there be a way to have [a1, a2], [b1, b2], [c1, c2] >>> from enlist[a1^a2 b1^b2 c1^c2] ? >>> >>> let's use sortsub and a little input set to see that what I am asking >>> for may not be that impossible. >>> >>> <$vars sf="[split[^]dump[]last[]]"> >>> {{{ [enlist[a1^22 b1^28 c1^14]sortsub<sf>] }}} >>> </$vars> >>> >>> reults in c1^14, a1^22, b1^28 >>> >>> which demonstrate that here split produces things like c1, 14 on which >>> split act upon. exactly what I wanted to achieve with subfilter. >>> >>> -- >>> Jean-Pierre >>> >>> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/db9f9535-8783-4cdf-8b10-874fee0482een%40googlegroups.com.