Thank you both! this opens up A Whole New World (begin singing now :-) I don't know why it took me so long to find/notice wikiCalc, and those links, Mario, will come in handy when I start getting (trying) into more complicated scripting (by the time I'm eighty, I'll be a whiz - but then there'll be AI Erics & Marios floating around to help us with our coding by then, right?)
On Aug 11, 3:38 am, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > your score is <<wikiCalc "0+(%1*1)+(%2*1)+(%3*1)+(%4*1)+(%5*1)" "one@" > > "two@" "three@" "four@" "five@">> > > your score is Error in macro <<wikiCalc>> > > presumably because the field values are true/false, not 1/0 > > actually.. that's an incorrect presumption! > > If you click on the error, you will see: > "missing ) in parenthetical" > > The reason is because.... the %n substitution markers start with > *0*... not *1*. However, in your expression above, you started with > %0 rather than %1. As a consequence, the parameter value for "one@" > is not inserted into the expression, and the final %5 has no value and > is simply stripped away. The result the final parenthetical term is > "(*1)", rather than a properly formed "(true*1)" or "(false*1)" as > intended. > > The good news is that if you simply 'shift' all the %n values in the > format string, so that you start with %0, then you will see the > results you expected, without any changes to the plugin needed! > > The even better news is that you don't need to do so much "forced > typing" in the expression, because true==1 and false==0 in > javascript. Thus, you can replace the "(%n*1)" syntax with just "%n" > and achieve the same result. > > your score is <<wikiCalc "%0+%1+%2+%3+%4" one@ two@ three@ four@ > five@>> > > enjoy, > -e > Eric Shulman > TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
