[pmwiki-users] Pagelist definition problem (fixed?)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:52:56AM -0400, Crisses wrote:
> I get a list in the right format, but the part I want to group on  
> just repeats:
> 
> http://similepedia.com/index.php/Category/Period-20thCentury
> http://similepedia.com/index.php/Category/Publisher-PenguinBooks


******ICK!*******  

I found part of the problem, and it's ugly.

It's the 'and' in "Of Mice and Men" that is messing things up.
The complex expression parser doesn't (yet?) recognize quotes -- 
it just separates things based on the predefined operators

    &&  ||  (   )  !  and  or  xor

So, since {$:Work} contains the string ' and ', it's being treated
as an operator in the complex expression and breaking the expression.

In the case of [[#othercatlist]] we're ending up with (I'll just
do a single expression here):

    (:if expr ( ! equal "Of Mice and Men" "Of Mice and Men" ) :)

which the "expr" condition sees as:

   ( ( ! equal "Of Mice ) and ( Men" "Of Mice ) and ( Men" ) )

which ends up always evaluating to true.  (Please don't ask me 
why. :-)

So, it looks like I'll have to get the complex expressions parser
to recognize quotes in order for this to work. 

In the case of [[#authorcatlist]], there aren't any quotes
around the page text variables, so that after substitution the
(:if:) condition ultimately looks like:

   (:if ! equal Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men :)

Since "Of" is not the same as "Mice", it always evaluates
to true.  Try putting quotes around the page text variables
in the (:if:) condition and see if that fixes things.

Pm