[mythtv-theming] template tag syntax

Joey Morris rjmorris at nc.rr.com
Thu Sep 1 22:47:39 UTC 2011


Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote on Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 08:54:24PM -0700:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Joey Morris <rjmorris at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> >  <template>%TITLE%%: |SUBTITLE|%</template>
> 
> Your mistake is the extra unnecessary pipe, the last one.
> 
> | means "everything between this pipe and the percentage sign, but
> only if this thing exists."  It can work in either direction.  So, to
> do what you want (where the colon and space only appears if the
> subtitle exists):
> 
> %TITLE%%: |SUBTITLE%

Thanks! That works perfectly.


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