[Zope] Re: mid function!

[Dieter Maurer]

Hamzat kamal writes:
 > >I assumed this will serve my purpose but when i tried it, 
You are probably wrong...
 >    <dtml-var dname>
 >    <dtml-if expr="_.find(dname, sub[1,6])=='Sunday'">
 >    today is sunday
 >    </dtml-if>
"find" returns an index, i.e. an integer. It will always be different
from a string ('Sunday').

You have been told to use the slice syntax:

    <dtml-if expr="dname[0:6] == 'Sunday'">

Why do you not follow this advice?


You probably would start with

    <dtml-var expr="dname[0:6]">

to get a feeling how slicing works...

You can do that in an interactive Python interpreter (to save time):

  python
  >>> s='your string'
  >>> s[0:6]

But you can do it in DTML, too.



Dieter