Split Operator?

[Stobot]

Hello all - hoping someone has an idea of how to go about this.

What I'm essentially trying to do is return the *line* of text from a tiddler based on it matching a filter. I often take notes rapidly and mark some of the lines as todo. I'm currently doing this with surrounding a word in double-equal signs like ==word==. I can then easily show on my 'home' tiddler the names of the tiddlers that contain that string, but I can't see the actual todo.

I started thinking that if there was an actual splitby[] type operator that took an input and split it into a list, then I could iterate through it. Splitbefore and split after exist, but they don't do what I'm looking for. If we had a split, I could:

- Take the whole text of a tiddler I know contains the string

- Split the text into lines (line breaks or *s for bullet points)

- Return the line that contains the text.

Anyone have a creative solution or plugin like this?

[Gracius]

+1 upvote on this to be added as a filter operator!

I've been struggling with the very same problem, and have not come up with any creative solutions using list/filter operators.  Seems the only way to do it would be javascript

[Mark S.]

You can use the "splitby" operator in a limited, awkward fashion. It usually takes multiple nested lists and is not very precise.

Considering experimenting with and upvoting:

https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/2963

This will allow you to split text by regular expressions, which is probably the most versatile splitting approach.

-- Mark