[ForEachTiddler] How to write the macro to display a range sequence of tiddlers?

[G.J.Robert]

Hi, I'm editing a wiki for my legal study notebook. I have copied various statutes and separate them into tiddlers by each article/clause. And I often use AliasPlugin, NestedSlidersPlugin and <<tiddler>> transclusion to make inline popups to refer to relevant articles in my notes. Here is a problem I hope to resolve: how to refer to a range of articles in just one macro call?

ex. For a certain issue I would like to refer to §73 to §85 of our Civil Code, and I have all the articles with numbers as tiddler titles in place, from CC§1 to CC§XXXX. Now, how do I write a ForEachTiddler macro call to transclude §73 to §85 at once? i.e. I hope to have the generated output written as sth. like

+++[73]...<<tiddler CC§73>>===
+++[74]...<<tiddler CC§74>>===
+++[75]...<<tiddler CC§75>>===
+++[76]...<<tiddler CC§76>>===
...
+++[85]...<<tiddler CC§85>>===

to get all the sliders as references.

Mind if I ask, because I'm very bad at coding and not sure how to get the right array from the titles of tiddlers to make an array and use some kind of loop to grab the range I want. I have tried a couple of times in vain so decided to seek for help. And also, I may not be able to understand and use the syntax of ForEachTiddler macro correctly.

Any hints/tips? Thanks!

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More advanced scenario: if there are certain newly inserted articles named as sth like CC§75-1, CC§75-2 after §75 and before §76, can these be sorted correctly and included in the range too?

+++[73]...<<tiddler CC§73>>===
+++[74]...<<tiddler CC§74>>===
+++[75]...<<tiddler CC§75>>===
+++[73]...<<tiddler CC§75-1>>===
+++[73]...<<tiddler CC§75-2>>===
+++[76]...<<tiddler CC§76>>===
...
+++[85]...<<tiddler CC§85>>===

I've heard that in Germany or other countries inserted articles are numbered using alphabets like 75a, 75b, but unfortunately we use -1, -2, -3 in our country...

[whatever]

Hi!

<<forEachTiddler where 'tiddler.tags.contains("yourTag")' sortBy
'tiddler.title' ascending write '"\+\+\+["+tiddler.title.replace(/
CC§/, "")+"]...<<tiddler "+tiddler.title+">\>===\n"'>>

That should do it, I think. You'll have to check how the TW sorts the
XX-1 tiddlers. You might also have to potentially escape "") like
\"\").
w

[G.J.Robert]

Hi!

Thank you so much for your suggestion! I'll work on it.

Meanwhile what remains is that if I want to specify a range of tiddlers among the articles to quote, for example I want to refer to Article X to Article Y, how should I tell forEachTiddler to grab the specified range?

I would imagine to use the "script" clause in forEachTiddler to get the start point X and final article Y into the function, and maybe a loop of "for (n=x; n>y; n++)..." to process each one, and return the whole bunch of tiddlers to be written in the output, but I have difficulty to figure out the right code...

whatever於 2012年12月28日星期五UTC+8下午11時11分44秒寫道：

[whatever]

Hey!

There's no need for scripts, just expand the write part like this:
<<forEachTiddler where 'tiddler.tags.contains("yourTag") &&
(tiddler.title.replace(/CC§|-[\d]+?/, "") > XX) &&
(tiddler.title.replace(/CC§|-[\d]+?/, "") < XX)'

Just replace both XX with your numbers and you should get only the
tiddlers whose main number is between the first and the second XX,
excluding the XX.
Note that I didn't test this, so it might need some tweaking. Possibly
the dash might need escaping.

w

[G.J.Robert]

Hi w,

Happy New Year, and thank you so much for solving this. I've hoped for this to come true for quite a while! And shame on me not even thought of using just simple comparison to get the ranged data! Ha!

Here is what's working now:

<<forEachTiddler
where 'tiddler.tags.contains("myTag") &&
(tiddler.title.replace(/(CC§)([\d]+)(\-?)([\d]?)/, "$2.$4") >= X) &&
(tiddler.title.replace(/(CC§)([\d]+)(\-?)([\d]?)/, "$2.$4") <= Y)'
sortBy 'tiddler.title' ascending
write '"\+\+\+["+tiddler.title.replace(/CC§/,"")+"]...<<tiddler "+tiddler.title+">\>===\n"'>>

so I can specify X and Y as the start and the end directly~ And also the hyphen of inserted articles are replaced as decimal dots, so that numeric comparison works all the time. (For example, I can specify X as a decimal "156.3" to refer to §156-3, so that this article can be used as a start point)

Thanks for this New Year present! Wish you get plenty of blessings too!

whatever於 2012年12月30日星期日UTC+8上午7時34分12秒寫道：