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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: doifnextcharelse
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 19:21:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A51639.1070203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7BBE743F-DD78-44AF-B4FA-8D71A833C918@uva.nl>


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> Meer, Hans van der <mailto:H.vanderMeer@uva.nl>
> 24. Januar 2016 um 15:58
> Yes this works. But alas, the ultimate goal is to test against several 
> characters and that seems impossible to do with standard ConTeXt 
> api-macros.Let alone when these characters are . or . or ) etc.
\startluacode

function checknextstring(str)
     if str == "a" then
         context("A")
     elseif str == "b" then
         context("B")
     else
         context("??")
     end
end

interfaces.implement { name = "readnextstring", actions = 
checknextstring,   arguments = "string" }

\stopluacode

\unprotect
\let\readnextstring\clf_readnextstring
\protect

\starttext

\readnextstring c
\readnextstring b
\readnextstring a
\readnextstring {xx}

\stoptext

Wolfgang

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-24 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-24 13:30 doifnextcharelse dr. Hans van der Meer
2016-01-24 14:13 ` doifnextcharelse Pablo Rodriguez
2016-01-24 14:58   ` doifnextcharelse Meer, Hans van der
2016-01-24 18:15     ` doifnextcharelse Meer, Hans van der
2016-01-24 18:21     ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]

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