Kyle Burnett wrote:

so i have this loop and i want to count a variable:

<dtml-in wherever>

<dtml-if sequence-start> <dtml-var count-id> </dtml-if>

</dtml-in>

but what i really want to count is specific values for id. so let's say id=='value1', i want to try and do the following:

<dtml-in wherever>

<dtml-if sequence-start> <dtml-var "count-id=='value1'"> </dtml-if>

</dtml-in>

but no luck. and i have tried several other make-shift syntaxes to no avail.

i do have some other logic that i could use over the course of the loop to determine the count of distinct values but i was try to do it in far less code.

This may be what you already thought of. It does require a lot of code if you have several things to count. There may also be cleaner ways to do it??? <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('this_count', 0)"> <dtml-in wherever> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('current_id', _['sequence-item'])"> <dtml-if "current_id=='id_to_count'"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('this_count', this_count+1)"> </dtml-if current_id> </dtml-in wherever> I counted <dtml-var this_count> items. (of course this is untested)<g>. -- Tim Cook -- FreePM Project Coordinator - http://www.freepm.org OS Healthcare Alliance Supporter - http://www.oshca.org

A couple of different solutions depending on exactly what you want to do. if you're just trying to get the total length of the records returned by wherever you could try. <dtml-let x=whatever> <dtml-var "_.len(x)"> </dtml-let> or if you want the distinct values as well <dtml-in whatever> <dmtl-var sequence-item><dtml-var sequence-number> </dtml-in> a great reference is the Zope Quick Reference at http://www.zope.org/Members/ZQR Check out the dtml-in docs. Kapil Kyle Burnett wrote:

so i have this loop and i want to count a variable:

<dtml-in wherever>

<dtml-if sequence-start> <dtml-var count-id> </dtml-if>

</dtml-in>

but what i really want to count is specific values for id. so let's say id=='value1', i want to try and do the following:

<dtml-in wherever>

<dtml-if sequence-start> <dtml-var "count-id=='value1'"> </dtml-if>

</dtml-in>

but no luck. and i have tried several other make-shift syntaxes to no avail.

i do have some other logic that i could use over the course of the loop to determine the count of distinct values but i was try to do it in far less code.

anyone got an idea of how to rig this?

thanks in advance, kyle

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