[pmwiki-users] WikiSh noob - -gt & -lt

[adam overton]

thanks so much peter
i'll try this out - thanks!!
adam



On 5 Jun 2008, at 2:29 PM, Peter & Melodye Bowers wrote:

> The various control flow elements (conditionals, looping, etc.)  
> within WikiSh are implemented as part of the {(wikish …)} MX rather  
> than being individual MXes themselves.  Thus {(if test …)} is  
> undefined as far as WikiSh is concerned.  It needs to be {(wikish  
> if test …)}
>
> While developing your solution you will probably find the control  
> panel to be *very* helpful.  It allows you to type this:
>
> if test 3 –gt 4
> then
>    echo YES
> else
>    echo NO
> fi
>
> And it will convert it to {(wikish if test 3 -gt 4; then; echo YES;  
> else; echo NO; fi;)} and show you the results.
>
> If you’d like to explore other options I’m pretty sure you could  
> fairly easily (?) expand (:if …:) functionality to include a > or <  
> comparison using the $Conditions array.  I’ve never done it, but  
> looking at the setting for “equals” in pmwiki.php I think you could  
> expand it like this:
>
> $Conditions['gt'] = 'CompareArgs($condparm) > 0';
> $Conditions['ge'] = 'CompareArgs($condparm) >= 0';
> $Conditions['lt'] = 'CompareArgs($condparm) < 0';
> $Conditions['le'] = 'CompareArgs($condparm) <= 0';
>
> Or something like that…  Others who have worked with this  
> $Condition variable can give a more exact answer…
>
> -Peter
>
> From: pmwiki-users-bounces at pmichaud.com [mailto:pmwiki-users- 
> bounces at pmichaud.com] On Behalf Of adam overton
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 1:34 PM
> To: pmwiki-users
> Subject: [pmwiki-users] WikiSh noob - -gt & -lt
>
>
>
> hi
> i'm trying out WikiSh for the first time
> and am wondering why both
>
>
> {(if test 3 -gt 4; then; echo YES; else; echo NO; fi)}
>
> &
>
> {(set Num1 = 3)}
> {(set Num2 = 4)}
> {(if test ${Num1} -gt ${Num2}; then; echo "YES"; else; echo "NO"; fi)}
>
>
> spit out "3" instead of NO?
>
> btw, is WikiSh my only option if i just want to do a > or < operation?
> thanks,
> adam
>
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>
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