[Zope] parsing strings in DTML

[Timothy Wilson]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on what should be a simple problem.

I pulling an address out of an ldap query and the data is in the form of a
$-separated string. Example:

101 Main St.$Anytown$MN$12345

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I could probably do <dtml-call
"REQUEST.set('parsed_address', _.string.join(old_address, '$')"> except for
the fact that getting "old_address" (the $-separated one) would require its
own <dtml-var old_address> statement. I can't nest <dtml>s so how to I
combine these?

Second question... Once I've got my string parsed into a list called
"parsed_string", what's the syntax for accessing certain elements of the
list?

Thanks.

-Tim

P.S. Maybe I should do this in an external or python method, but I thought
it would be overkill for a single operation like this. Am I wrong?

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