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Re: Ideas for emulating two file download categories?
Bloke wrote #337788:
Or maybe we don’t pass the thing directly to SQL but preprocess it? Internally replace underscores with
\_and just document it that if people want to use wildcards they need to use*which we internally preprocess to a regular underscore before passing to SQL.Bit of a hack.
Done, under your responsibility :-)
Bloke wrote #337760:
Not ideal, but less work than splitting the filename on a delimiter and adding headers when the prefix changes.
These bits are actually easy:
<txp:if_different>
<txp:file_download_name breakby="-" limit="1" />
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Re: Ideas for emulating two file download categories?
Just so I understand correctly (I can’t easily test atm):
Two wild cards: % and * (as an alias for the SQL _). Do those two cover the same, e.g all assets in the example above?
Question: is the - delimiter required? Or is that just a convenience (it certainly does make for a readable category names in the example).
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Re: Ideas for emulating two file download categories?
phiw13 wrote #337814:
Two wild cards:
%and*(as an alias for the SQL_). Do those two cover the same, e.g all assets in the example above?
Yes, % is for any number of characters, and * matches one character, à la sql _. The underscore _ itself acts as a literal character, since it can be part of category names, unlike % and *.
Question: is the
-delimiter required? Or is that just a convenience (it certainly does make for a readable category names in the example).
Not required at all, but is one of rare characters allowed in category names that is readable as delimiter when you need to split a name.
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Re: Ideas for emulating two file download categories?
etc wrote #337816:
Yes,
%is for any number of characters, and*matches one character, à la sql_. The underscore_itself acts as a literal character, since it can be part of category names, unlike%and*.
Thanks! I understand now. The is certainly a useful feature. And yes the - as part of the category name makes for readable and thus easy to use names.
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Re: Ideas for emulating two file download categories?
We already use wildcards in cf queries, so there is nothing really disruptive here.
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