Show notes: expression and variable expansion

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Hi all,
Has anyone managed to do something like this in the show notes?

$(StateCount > 0 ? "StateIndex of StateCount" : "")

I’ve tried multiple variations with brackets around each variable, dollar signs in front but I can’t get it to work.

Thanks in advance!

2

Hi mmichaelc,

Your expression works here. What exactly is it showing you?

Cheers,

Dave

3

Hi Dave,

Thanks for checking.
I’m just getting the literal text “StateIndex” and “StateCount” instead of the variable value.

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Oh, I didn’t know that’s what you are after. This will display the count.

$(StateCount)

returns the number of states in the song so if I have no extra states in a song (the first state is always there) it returns 0 if I add 2 more states bringing the total to 3 it returns 2. Is that what you are looking for?

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Sorry, I didn’t explain in my original post.
I’d like to have a note showing the current state out of the total, to see how far I am in a song.
But if there aren’t any states then

$(StateIndex) of $(StateCount)

prints
- of 0
so I’d rather have the text hidden when there aren’t any states, hence the ternary expression.
True, I could just not have that note for those songs but I’m trying to set up a template song that works for all cases.

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@mmichaelc

Is this the ticket?

$(StateCount > 0 ? "State " :"")$(StateCount == 0 ? "":StateIndex)$(StateCount > 0 ? " of " :"")$(StateCount > 0 ? StateCount :"")

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It Blanks it all out if there are no added states in a song

Dave

7

Ah, genius!
Never would have thought of that.
Thanks @dave_dore

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