perfect, thanks Eric!
On Wednesday, 16 June 2021 at 11:19:25 UTC+1 Eric Shulman wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 2:50:58 AM UTC-7 james.w....@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>> lets say I have a tiddler called Search which contains:
>> www.google
>> then in another tiddler i want to use this to create external links to
>> different sites e.g.
>> {{Search}}.com -> www.google.com
>> {{Search}}.co.uk -> www.google.co.uk
>> {{Search}}.fr -> www.google.fr
>>
>> the following doesn't work:
>> <a href={{Search}}.com> link 1</a>
>> what is the right syntax to achieve this?
>>
>
> To construct a parameter value (i.e., the value following the "href="
> syntax), you need to use a "filtered transclusion", like this:
>
> <a href={{{ [{Search}addsuffix[.com]] }}}> link 1</a>
> <a href={{{ [{Search}addsuffix[.co.uk]] }}}> link 2</a>
> <a href={{{ [{Search}addsuffix[.fr]] }}}> link 3</a>
>
> Notes:
> 1) The filtered transclusion syntax is contained within tripled curly
> braces: {{{ filter }}}
> 2) The filter syntax itself is contained inside a matched pair of single
> square brackets: [...]
> 3) To reference the text content of a tiddler within a filter, use
> *single* curly braces: {TiddlerName}
> 4) To append the desired literal text (i.e., ".com", ".co.uk", etc.) use
> the addsuffix[...] operator
>
> enjoy,
> -e
>
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