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Re: [mv] [if] and its ilk



******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>     ******

The best solution may be to not have blank lines in your database!

- Ed L.


At 12:27 PM 3/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Chris Rapier 
><rapier@psc.edu>     ******
>
>One of problem I have having with the test store is that the following
>code for generating the initial product categories listing:
>
>
>[loop   search="
>                         ra=yes
>                         un=yes
>                         rf=category
>                         ml=10000
>                 "
>]
><LI> <A HREF="[area href=scan
>                                     arg='
>                                                 sf=category
>                                                 se="[loop-code]"
>                                                 tf=category,artist
>                                                 ml=5
>                                         '
>                                 ]">[loop-code]</A></LI>
>[/loop]
>
>Does not handle blank lines in the database very well. For example:
>If the database contained
>category        artist
>good art        goya
>bad art         kostabi
>                                 <---- blank line
>mediocre art    picasso
>
>The following would be displayed as categories.
>
>* good art
>* bad art
>*
>* mediocre art
>
>I tried wrapping it inside of [if !value category eq ""]
>but it didn't work at all the way I expected. I know that this
>should quite easy but I can't seem to figure it out. My feeling is
>that I just don't know how to get the field value of category into
>the right place.
>
>Chris Rapier
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