Many thanks.
Sure enough that's what I needed and as I expected it was simple enough.
The $(name)$ was the combination I hadn't tried. Perhaps it isn't the best
documented aspect of Tiddlywiki.
Again, thanks.
Stephen
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 2:20:42 PM UTC-6, Mark S. wrote:
>
> 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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