Let's try it in Python. We can do it in DTML, but it just looks so much *nicer* in Python. def getFirstName(name): import string lastName=string.split(name, " ")[1] return lastName You can create an External Method that contains this code and it'll do what its Java counterpart does when you call it from DTML or from Python. To call it, we'd do something like this in DTML where listofUniqueFullNames is a SQL method that returns "SELECT DISTINCT FULL_NAME FROM NAMES", which returns a recordset object that contains an attribute FULL_NAMES which is a tuple of strings like ("John Smith", "Uncle Sam", ) <dtml-in listOfUniqueFullNames> <dtml-var "getFirstName(FULL_NAME)"> </dtml-in> This will return to a client browser: Smith Sam Guy Davis wrote:
How would I convert the following Java code into DTML? This is just an example, I don't understand how methods are used in DTML.
String getFirstName(String name) { String lastName = name.substring(0, name.indexOf(' ')); return (lastName); }
I would like to see a DTML method which does this, how it is called and how the result is used in the calling method. Thanks. -- Guy Davis mailto:davis@arc.ab.ca (403) 210-5334 Alberta Research Council
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