Thank you very much, both work, also one more question , to get anywhere remotely close to writing code like this for tiddly wiki , what language should i try to learn, i have no coding skills, and was just wondering if i would invest my time in learning a bit, what language should i be looking at?
thanks again On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 11:32:19 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > actually, https://tiddlywiki.com/#Macro%20Definitions%20in%20WikiText is > very confusing! It took me a lot of time to make any sense out of it for > the special case like using <<< and after my own tests, I have failed to > see that as useful. > > Your code is actual code and it would be good to use it rather than the > current example. > > I was sure you coded <arg> instead of <__arg__> and I had copied it and > executed. It was not functioning as it should. But I can no more remember > why: was it the problem I told about why regexp was better or was it that > it did nothing? > > Anyway, thank you for your correction about what I told. I have yet again > something about tiddlywiki today! And I could use it, definitely. > > > > > > Le jeudi 23 septembre 2021 à 18:04:26 UTC+2, [email protected] a écrit : > >> Hi Jean-Pierre >> >> You made an error in your macro, Jeremy. You should have used $arg$ >> instead of <arg>. >> >> >> It's actually not an error: it's an alternative way to access the >> parameters of macros. It avoids the problem that otherwise the code would >> fail with a tiddler title containing a closing square bracket. >> >> There are docs here under "Parameters as Variables <<__...__>>": >> >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Macro%20Definitions%20in%20WikiText >> >> But it is false nonetheless because it would, for example, cut word >> "totem" if asked for word "to". My regular expression does not do that >> thanks to the \b at both ends of the arguments. >> >> >> Yes, I did that quickly, but indeed I think that splitregexp would be >> needed to make it practical, both to resolve the word boundary issue and >> the case sensitivity issue. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> >> Le jeudi 23 septembre 2021 à 16:45:46 UTC+2, [email protected] a >> écrit : >> >>> Another technique is to use the “split” operator to split the string by >>> the word: >>> >>> \define count-words(title,word) >>> <$text text={{{ [<__title__>get[text]split<__word__>count[]subtract[1]] >>> }}}/> >>> \end >>> >>> <<count-words "HelloThere" "the">> >>> >>> Using the splitregexp operator instead allows would allow splitting case >>> insensitively, which might be more useful. >>> >>> Best wishes >>> >>> Jeremy. >>> >>> On 23 Sep 2021, at 15:37, Jean-Pierre Rivière <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Here it is. >>> >>> ``` >>> \define count-word(word, tid) >>> {{{ >>> [[$tid$]get[text]search-replace:gi:regexp[\b$word$\b],[þ]dump:v[first]search-replace:g:regexp<but>,[]dump:v[final]length[]] >>> >>> }}} >>> \end >>> >>> <<count-word foo "bar tiddler tittle">> >>> ``` >>> >>> I use a char that should never be within the tiddler, þ in my example. >>> You can use another rare character is old English is concerned! I replace >>> every occurrence of the word with it, then remove any other character then >>> count the length of the result. If you want case sensitive search, just >>> omit the `i` flag in the first `search-replace`. >>> >>> Le mercredi 22 septembre 2021 à 15:14:55 UTC+2, mohamed.e...@ >>> vodafone.com a écrit : >>> >>>> Hi , >>>> >>>> is there a way to count the number of occurrences of a specific word in >>>> a tiddler >>>> >>>> I have serached , but could only find a plugin that counts the total >>>> number of words, or total number characters. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/a30f622a-627f-41a5-a532-4015e0f3faaen%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a30f622a-627f-41a5-a532-4015e0f3faaen%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/ab5296b2-f778-4334-9eef-1892487d6f19n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ab5296b2-f778-4334-9eef-1892487d6f19n%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/bf0e239f-e581-4458-a00a-50d510ecbe20n%40googlegroups.com.
