[pmwiki-users] Markup to extract a substring for a Group Name
Ben Stallings
ben at interdependentweb.com
Thu Oct 25 17:43:34 CDT 2007
Randy wrote:
> I'm using PmWiki 2.1. I keep my content and talk pages separated by
> group, using the same page name. The group name simply has the suffix
> "Talk". For example MyGroup.MyPage and MyGroupTalk.MyPage.
>
> I want to put a link on the Sidebar, so that when I'm on any Talk
> page the user can go to its content page. (The other direction is
> easy: {$Group)Talk.{$Name}.) How do I extract the current group name
> minus the "Talk" suffix, so I can do {$GroupBaseName).{$Name}?
First, upgrade to 2.1.27 or later. Then use
{(substr {$Group} 0 -4)}.{$Name}
--Ben S.
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