Whenever you want to concatenate something, like the result of a variable
and a tiddler name, think of macros -- that's mainly what they do. This
script seems to work:
\define price() {{pricetiddler##$(stock)$}}
<$list filter="[tag[computer]sort[title]]" variable="stock">
<<stock>> price = $<<price>>
</$list>
HTH
-- Mark
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 9:53:31 AM UTC-8, Stephen Kimmel wrote:
>
> Per my usual, I'm fairly certain that this is easy... I just can't figure
> it out.
>
> I have a lot of tiddlers named with the stock symbol. The tiddler for Ford
> is named F, for example. while the tiddler for Disney is named DIS. I want
> to create a data/dictionary tiddler called pricetiddler that will have the
> stock marker tickers symbols and the prices. So the data tiddler might look
> like :
>
> APPL:175.07
>>
>> DIS:103.13
>>
>> F:10.51
>>
>> MSFT:92.87
>>
>
> I want this in a dictionary tiddler so I can change all the numbers in one
> shot rather than changing a field in each of the tiddlers individually.
> Finally I want to create lists using something like
>
> <$list filter="[tag[computer]sort[title]]" variable="stock">
>> <<stock>> price = ${{pricetiddler##<<stock>>}}
>>
>> </$list>
>>
>
> and create a list like:
>
> APPL price = $175.07
>> MSFT price = $92.87
>>
>
> So far, no combination of symbols has given me what I want. Can someone
> tell me what I'm missing?
>
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