Processing the text field a line at a time

[TonyM]

Folks,

In part inspired by the Tiddler internal TOC question I was wondering if there is a method to;

Process the text field a line at a time?

I realise this is in someways possible with datatiddlers, but I am interested in a filter or other method that would return each line of a text tiddler, delimited by new line or <br> as appears in the edit tiddler view.

A list filter to do this on a tiddlers text (or other) field would 

• Without intervention, display the whole tiddler as it would be seen in edit mode.
  
• Wikifying each line would not always make sense as many WikiText items use more than one line
• Using the limit[5] would show the first 5 lines of a tiddler (un wikified)
• Each line can be subsequently filtered according to its content such as heading, comments and other string tests
• Is this string testing actually possible? perhaps with search operator on the resulting text, or listops?
• For example lines beginning with "!" could be filtered out and then wikifyed to provide a visual list of headings in this tiddler
• Any other text could be used to generate custom views eg 
• <$list </$list <$set </$set <$vars </$vars etc... to show the code structure.
• A convention ".q" ".a" could be used to list questions and answers lines and get a css class to boot.
  
• Such a feature will allow for a rudimentary parsing and more sophisticated treatment of the text field content.
• Perhaps this could be used to support append/pre-pend to the text field allowing log and other tiddlers.

it must be happening in the CodeMirror plugin

If no solution exists I will raise a GitHub Issue.

Thank in advance

Tony

[BurningTreeC]

Hi @TonyM,

I've extended the "get" filter recently - see here

I haven't tested it that much yet, but it returns line by line using the syntax:

get:lines[text]

BTC

[TonyM]

Thanks BTC

I will review in 12+ Hours (Tomorrow Morning)

This is personally yet another game changer, if I can use it as planned

More detailed examination of the content of the Text field will allow much richer access to that content, and its manipulation.

Rehards

Tony

[Mark S.]

Could probably also be done using the regexpression string extractor (PR #2963).

--- Mark