On 12/07/16 18:08, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> Right now, getclassmetatags("myclass") and getvariablemetatags("myvar")
> return an slist of all the tags for their respective class or variable.
>
> In 3.9.0, I found myself needing a specific tag value instead of all of
> them, so I was doing
>
> regex_replace(nth(grep("^foo=.*", getclassmetatags("myclass")), 0),
> "^foo=", "", "T")
>
> to get the value of the "foo=bar" tag of "myclass". So I would love to
> have an optional second argument getclassmetatags("myclass", "foo") and
> getvariablemetatags("myvar", "foo") that give me a slist of the specific
> tag values, removing the key. What do you think? It would be backwards
> compatible and fairly easy to implement.
Would it need to be an slist? If you ask for a specific tag you'll get
just one value, no? Or do you mean that it should be an expression?
I guess this makes sense, but just out of curiosity, can you share some
more about why you needed this, if it's not too secret? :-)
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Kristian
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