How to test the emptyness of a variable?

* How to test the emptyness of a variable?
@ 2013-11-07 17:45 Géry Ogam
  2013-11-09 19:55 ` Aditya Mahajan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Géry Ogam @ 2013-11-07 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ntg-context

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> I'm sure there is also a "cleaner" TeX way, but I'm not experienced
enough for that.

I think you misunderstood my issue: your Lua way does the same thing than
my TeX way: it displays:

ONE Cool
2 Cat
3 Mouse

but that is NOT what I want. What I want is:

1 Cool
2 Cat
3 Mouse

So I need to check if the chapter label has been set empty or not by the
user, because it is not empty (let's say the user chose the string
"CHAPTER~" for the chapter label) I want to display this:

CHAPTER ONE Cool
CHAPTER 2 Cat
CHAPTER 3 Mouse

The way to do that is to check if the variable \currentstructurelabel is
empty, so the code must be:

\define[1]
\MyCommand{\doifelse{\currentsectioncountervalue}{1}{\doifnotemptyelse{\currentstructurelabel}{ONE}{#1}}{#1}}
\setuphead[chapter][deepnumbercommand=\MyCommand]

\starttext
    \setuplabeltext[chapter=CHAPTER~]
        \chapter{Cool}
        \chapter{Cat}
        \chapter{Mouse}
\stoptext

\starttext
    \setuplabeltext[chapter=]
        \chapter{Cool}
        \chapter{Cat}
        \chapter{Mouse}
\stoptext

But the problem is that in the second case, even if the chapter label is
set empty the command \doifnotemptyelse{\currentstructurelabel} thinks the
variable \currentstructurelabel is not empty. So there must be something
invisible in it, like a strut or something.

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