Template talk:Test-case-query: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 06:12, 5 September 2008

Here we are hacking data we get back from SMW : it is returning the name of the test in question as a property, with standard format

 Property name

So we use the string functions provided by Extension:StringFunctions to extract the raw property name:

find the length of the property-string S
if the property name string is P, len(S) = 2len(P) + 5. so we extract the substring (len(P)+4, -2) to get P
in the above, since we don't yet know P, we write this as (len(S) + 3)/2 [ = (2len(P) + 8)/2 = len(P) + 4 ]

Hopefully you don't have to try this at home. If you do, see [1] and [2]. --Sj talk 06:10, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

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 # find the length of the property-string  S
 # if the property name string is P, len(S) = 2len(P) + 5.  so we extract the substring (len(P)+4, -2) to get P
-# in the above, since we don't yet know P, we write this as (len(S) + 3)/2
+# in the above, since we don't yet know P, we write this as (len(S) + 3)/2  [ = (2len(P) + 8)/2 = len(P) + 4 ]
 Hopefully you don't have to try this at home.  If you do, see [http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Inline_queries#Using_templates_for_custom_formatting] and [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions].