What is the correct way to concatenate THIS_SCRIPT?

[Simon Lloyd]

Hi all,
I've attempted to concatenate two THIS_SCRIPTs like this<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'subscription' or THIS_SCRIPT != 'search'"> but it doesn't appear to work?

Is that the correct way?

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For some strange reason i changed it to this<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'subscription' AND THIS_SCRIPT != 'search'"> and it works!? wonder why it wouldn't work with OR?

[kh99]

If you think about it, since it can't be both 'subscription' and 'search' at the same time it's always going to be != to one of them, so in your first example the condition will always be true.

[Simon Lloyd]

Doh!, it was approaching midnight here when i was attempting it, thanks for the explanation.

[Pandemikk]

I'm also going to add this has nothing to do with string concatenation- or any form of concatenating.

What you're doing is simple expression evaluating with comparison operators.

And lastly, what exactly are you trying to do? :D

[Simon Lloyd]

Well, that depends how you read it, to concatenate means to link or join together, so yes it is concatenating as i wanted to "join" two THIS_SCRIPTs.

As for what i'm trying to acheive, i wanted to only show a variable for all pages except "subscription" and "search :)

The second part of my message shows that i've done that, it was really late when i first posted, i then thought i'll just try the AND operator and it worked, i wasn't thinking too clearly at the time, KH99 pointed out why, i should have seen it really.

[Pandemikk]

Okay. Glad you got it worked out. But that's still not concatenation. ;)

[Boofo]

Okay. Glad you got it worked out. But that's still not concatenation. ;)

Exactly. Not in the true sense, anyway.

[kh99]

Well, that depends how you read it, to concatenate means to link or join together, so yes it is concatenating as i wanted to "join" two THIS_SCRIPTs.


I agree with that. What Pandemikk is talking about is string concatenation (which *is* what is normally meant by concatenation when you're talking programming) but that doesn't mean you couldn't use that word for what you're doing. I knew what you meant.


Doh!, it was approaching midnight here when i was attempting it, thanks for the explanation.

...and I didn't mean to imply that you hadn't thought about it, I guess what I meant to say was "If you think about it like this...".

[Simon Lloyd]

...and I didn't mean to imply that you hadn't thought about it, I guess what I meant to say was "If you think about it like this...".Lol, i know, and no i didn't think of it that way last night :)