From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: problem with \processaction
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:18:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5490CBDC.20006@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5490A31A.4020308@gmx.es>
On 12/16/2014 10:24 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 12/16/2014 09:50 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 12/16/2014 6:51 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> I have the following sample:
>>>
>>> \def\SystemUser{whoami}
>>> \def\CheckUser{\processaction[\SystemUser][whoami=>whm]}
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \doifelse{\CheckUser}{whm}{This is the right user.}
>>> {This is the wrong user.}
>>>
>>> \doifelse{\SystemUser}{whoami}{This is the right user.}
>>> {This is the wrong user.}
>>>
>>> \SystemUser\ is \CheckUser
>>>
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> Why doesn’t the first \doifelse work? What am I missing there?
>>
>> because \processaction is not a fully expandable command
>
> Many thanks for your reply, Hans.
>
> Is there no other way to get the text value (so that it could be
> compared with \doif) from a command that assigns values using
> \processaction?
\setvalue{SomeName:foo}{one}
\setvalue{SomeName:bar}{two}
% and another 50 names
\def\SomeName{foo}
% \def\SomeName{bar}
\doifelse{\getvalue{SomeName:\SomeName}}{two}
{YES}
{NOP}
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-17 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-16 17:51 Pablo Rodriguez
2014-12-16 20:50 ` Hans Hagen
2014-12-16 21:24 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2014-12-17 0:18 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2014-12-17 18:00 ` Pablo Rodriguez
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