[pmwiki-users] experimental - pagelist conditionals

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:43:58AM +0200, Roman wrote:
>>>    (:if date 2007-05-01..2007-05-31 {*$Name} :)
>>
>> I assume that each parameter accepts any expression. For example, if
>> page names are in form "News-yyyy-mm-dd", the following condition
>> should work. Am I right?
>>
>> (:if date 2007-05-01..2007-05-31 {(substr {*$Name} 5)} :)
>
> Yes... and it's not necessary to use the {(substr ...)} .
> The date converter will search any string for the first
> date-looking-thing that it finds (see below).  So, even
> for a page named "News-yyyy-mm-dd" one can do
>
>    (:if date 2007-05-01..2007-05-31 {*$Name}:)

I believe this gives an affirmative answer to my question if 
"Meeting2007-05-31" would match the above. Nice :-)

> The date converter understands the following formats:
>
> -  A string starting with '@' and a sequence of digits is treated
>   as a unix timestamp

Hmm... I'd assumed the source of the string to be a page name (I wasn't 
thinking about page variables). Anyway, can a page name contain a '@'?

/Christian

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