Hi guys !
I realize I have a very specific request. But hopefully
challenging/interesting enough for you guys.
I put some background info, so you understand where I am coming from but I
guess you can skip the paragraph, till the issue bit
*Background* : I have migrated a chm file that document an internal
database, into TW5 of course. The migration is done with a Vim script that
converts the html into tiddlers. The files are then imported nicely in TW.
This works great. The purpose of this is to allow me and colleagues to add
notes to the documentation. Documentation is never complete and you always
want to write down a SQL query and share it. So you can add some tiddlers
to the tiddlywiki (not easily done with chm). Point is the DB evolves and
new chm come up from time to time. So to keep the notes and allow for
refreshed tiddlers, I came up with this :
- The migrated tiddlers are named by database object typically table
name. I'll use tableA in the examples
- These have embedded a button at the top that will create a relative
tiddler to their name : TableA+ (just add the "+" suffix)
- They transclude this relative tiddler (basically the migrated tiddler
include {{TableA+}} even if it does not exist yet.
- So if a comment was made , the TableA+ is created and kept , and
TableA is updated at the new migration.
- I apply the same idea for a bottom comment with suffix "+b" , that
creates TableA+b, and to create comment for each field of the table, so
TableA.field1+ can be created
This again works very nicely. Now comes the point. I want to search through
Table documentation and my notes at the same time. and the default search
can come up with many entry for the same table (TableA, TableA+,
TableA.fieldn+, TableA+b). What I want is to get only one result back from
the search (nicer, more compact result set)
*Here is my issue*
The tiddlywiki is full of comment tiddlers that have suffix "+", "+b" and
".fieldn+".
These comments refers to the a main tiddler named "TableA".
I want to be able to search through all of these, but only offer a link to
the main tiddler . So if my search string is found in "TableA+", I want the
search to return TableA
This can be done for the "+" and "+b" suffix, using removesuffix operator
in the macro that customize the search, i will use the following to change
the link to remove from the tiddlers the "+b" suffix
[!is[system]search{$(searchTiddler)$}!regexp[\..*\+]] +[removesuffix[+b]]
I do the same with "+" suffix, add the tiddlers corresponding to the table
(removesuffix does filter out the tiddlers without suffix) , do the union
of the lot, and sort it back.
<$list filter="[!is[system]search{$(searchTiddler)$}!regexp[\..*\+]]
+[removesuffix[+]] [!is[system]search{$(searchTiddler)$}!regexp[\..*\+]]
+[removesuffix[+b]] [!is[system]search{$(searchTiddler)$}!suffix[+]!suffix[+b]]
[!is[system]search{$(searchTiddler)$}regexp[\..*\+]] +[sort[]]">
The code above include the regexp operator to include or exclude the
tiddlers with the ".field1+" or ".field67+" suffix. But for them I don't
know how to remove the suffix. *removesuffix does not work with regular
expressions*
*So in short*
*is there a way to remove a suffix that you can identify through regular
expressions ?*
I guess variables could help, but I would not know where to start. Can you
provide clues ?
Also I am not fully confortable on how to customize the search, is there
any example around of customized searchs appart from the timeline in
tiddlywiki.com ? where is the code for the default search ?
Many thanks for your help. Sorry for the long post
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