bug ? $action-listops would not copy from another datatiddler if it is negative

[Sebastian Ovide]

try this this snipped. It works for positive numbers but not for negatives ones. 

Any ideas ?

<$edit-text  tiddler="weight" index="tmp" tag="input" type="number"/> <$button>

<$action-listops $tiddler="weight" $index="latest" $filter={{weight##tmp}}/>

<$action-listops $tiddler="weight" $index=<<now YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ss>> $filter={{weight##tmp}}/>record

</$button>

weight -> {{weight}}

weight##latest -> {{weight##latest}}

[Mat]

I didn't study your code but note that e.g the filter {{{ 5 -1 }}} outputs only "5" because as a filter, the minus doesn't mean "negative" but "remove from filter". To get negative number you must write {{{ 5 =-1 }}} or with a = before every item, i.e {{{ =5 =-1 }}}

<:-)

[Eric Shulman]

On Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 4:48:17 AM UTC-7, Sebastian Ovide wrote:

try this snippet. It works for positive numbers but not for negatives ones. 

<$edit-text  tiddler="weight" index="tmp" tag="input" type="number"/> <$button>

<$action-listops $tiddler="weight" $index="latest" $filter={{weight##tmp}}/>

<$action-listops $tiddler="weight" $index=<<now YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ss>> $filter={{weight##tmp}}/>record

</$button>

weight -> {{weight}}

weight##latest -> {{weight##latest}}

Not sure what you are trying to do, but it's unclear to me why you are using $action-listops to write the input into the tiddler.

Perhaps you can just use $action-setfield, like this:

<$edit-text tiddler="weight" index="tmp" tag="input" type="number"/>

<$button> record
<$action-setfield $tiddler="weight" $index="latest" $value={{weight##tmp}}/>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="weight" $index=<<now YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ss>> $value={{weight##tmp}}/>
</$button>

-e

[Sebastian Ovide]

thanks Eric. 

I was using action-listops as I've found it in another thread and didn't know that action-setfield could write in datatiddlers.

I wish I've read your answer before !

 in the mean time I managed to use action-listop with this

\define makeAction(tiddler, number) 

  <$action-listops $tiddler="$tiddler$" $index="latest" $filter="=$number$" />

  <$action-listops $tiddler="$tiddler$" $index=<<now YYYY0MM0DD>> $filter="=$number$" />

\end

\define save(tiddler)

  <$macrocall $name="makeAction" tiddler="$tiddler$" number={{$tiddler$##tmp}} />

\end

<$edit-text  tiddler="weight" index="tmp" tag="input" type="number"/><$button>

<$action-listops $tiddler="weight" $index="latest" $filter={{weight##tmp}}/>

<<save weight>>

record

</$button>

weight -> {{weight}}

weight##latest -> {{weight##latest}}