[pmwiki-users] Pagelist problems (pretty advanced)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:44:32AM -0400, Crisses wrote:
>    Another problem --
>    When a field has a period in it, and I need to make the data part of a
>    pagename... (this MAY be related to the problem I originally posted).
>    [@
>    [[#othercatlist]]
>    (:if expr ( ! equal "{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Year}"
>    "{Data-{<$BaseName}$:Year}" ) ||  ( ! equal "{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Work}"
>    "{Data-{<$BaseName}$:Work}" ) ||  ( ! equal "{Data-{=$BaseName}$:WAuthor}"
>    "{Data-{<$BaseName}$:WAuthor}" ) :)
>    *   [[ Category/Title-{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Work} |
>    {Data-{=$BaseName}$:Work} ]] -
>    [[Category/Author-{Data-{=$BaseName}$:WAuthor} |
>    {Data-{=$BaseName}$:WAuthor} ]] - [[
>    Category/Year-{Data-{=$BaseName}$:Year} | {Data-{=$BaseName}$:Year} ]]
>    (:ifend:)
>    [[#othercatlistend]]
>    @]
>    Long story short, the WAuthor field sometimes has a period (or two) in
>    it.  This obviously won't work to create the Category/Author-Name link.
>    Category/Author-{Data-{=$BaseName}$:WAuthor}
>    For example: if $:WAuthor contains a Jr. in the name, an initial like C.S.
>    Lewis, etc.
>    I had to strip .'s out when creating category links when I had the pages
>    written -- is there any way to process the variables and strip out the
>    periods?  

There's not a built-in way to do this, no.  It may require a custom
page variable.

Pm