Addition/subtraction in DLL templates ?

[qal]

Hello,

Is there a way of making addition or subtraction operations inside DDL template ? I was trying to get some substring and i find out that typing $numvariableA - $numvariableB just results in a string output with minus in it. I find workaround, but its a little weird and it will be better if i just could use a subtraction.


Thanks in advance,
Qal

[qwerty]

I always recommend to just ignore this awkward scripting and use the API for transformation and code generation. That will not limit you in such basic things. It's a greater start-up since you start at scratch. But once you have some scaffold you can do much much more.

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[qal]

Ok, Thanks for the advice. I'm gonna try it out :}

[Aaron B]

Hi Qal,

There are actually function macros available in the code gen / transformation templates for MATH_ADD, MATH_SUB and MATH_MULT.  Unfortunately they don't seem to be documented though.  We will look into getting the help updated.

MATH_ADD(x, y)
Returns the value of x+y.

MATH_MULT(x, y)
Returns the value of x*y.

MATH_SUB(x, y)
Returns the value of x-y.

Note: x and y for above parameters can be passed as either numerals or strings.  E.g. %MATH_ADD("10", "2")% returns 12.