Hmm, in its current form the 5.1.20 'split' operator *can* be used to "listify" a string and preserve duplicates... *but* it does not respect the TW convention of enclosing values with double square brackets when they contain spaces. As an example, in 5.1.20-prerelease:
<$set name="HasDuplicates" value="*one two two three [[twenty one]] [[twenty one]] [[forty six]]*"> <$list filter="[<HasDuplicates>split[ ]]"> </$list> results in: one <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#one> two <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#two> two <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#two> three <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#three> [[twenty <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#%5B%5Btwenty> one]] <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#one%5D%5D> [[twenty <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#%5B%5Btwenty> one]] <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#one%5D%5D> [[forty <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#%5B%5Bforty> six]] <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#six%5D%5D> The duplicate entries are, indeed, preserved. Unfortunately, the double square brackets are treated as regular characters. It would be necessary to use tabs, or more exotic characters, as a value delimiter when values may contain spaces. This means the user has to remember different data-encoding conventions for different operations, and in the worst case the same data may have to be stored in multiple formats. Also, it's human-unfriendly to work with tabs and spaces in the same strings when they have different semantic meanings :-) My quixotic quest for a drop in enlist-but-with-duplicate-preservation replacement continues... I'll start a fresh topic about that broader question. Regards, David. On Tuesday, 23 April 2019 21:02:28 UTC+9:30, David Nebauer wrote: > > > Note: I am aware that TW 5.1.20 will have a split operator that retains > duplicates, but I'm hoping for a solution in days rather than [*insert TW > 5.1.20 release schedule here*]. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5f043d76-52a5-46f7-a9ba-263391891829%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
