I am satisfied with the `<$vars tagList={{{
[enlist{$:/temp/tagSearch}sort[]join[,]] }}}>` solution. I may have other
questions to make my custom search tiddler look nicer, but that can be a
separate thread if needed. Tyvm again for the help!
On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 9:06:51 PM UTC-4 Eric Shulman wrote:
> On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 3:57:35 PM UTC-7 [email protected]
> wrote:
>
>> How might I make this searching tiddler more robust in the presence of
>> "tags with spaces", since I also use spaces to delimit tags in the
>> `edit-text`?
>>
>
> The problem is the use of
> `<$set name="tagList" filter="[enlist{$:/temp/tagSearch}sort[]join[,]]">`
>
> Let’s say you entered “foo [[bar baz]]” (i.e., two tags, “foo” and “bar
> baz”).
>
> Then, you might expect the results of the above $set widget to be “foo,bar
> baz”. However, because this string contains a space, the $set widget
> *automatically
> encloses the output in double square brackets*. Thus, the actual result
> is “[[foo,bar baz]]”. Then, when you use `match<tagList>` later on, it
> expects those square brackets to be part of the literal string match.
>
> The solution is to use $vars with a “filtered transclusion” for the value,
> instead of $set, like this:
> `<$vars tagList={{{ [enlist{$:/temp/tagSearch}sort[]join[,]] }}}>`
> Then, tagList will be “foo,bar baz”, as you intended.
>
> Alternatively, you *can* use $set, by adding “select=0” as an extra
> parameter, like this:
> `<$set name="tagList" filter="[enlist{$:/temp/tagSearch}sort[]join[,]]"
> select=0>`
> This tells the $set widget to only return the first list item (i.e.,
> item #0), without adding any square brackets.
> -e
>
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