Conditional Statements in PDF Lib Blocks

Modified on Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 8:45 AM

Recognized Functions inside the expression part of the ‘if’ command

Type	Functions	Recognized operators in the expression
String	string()	+	plus
	concat()	-	minus
	starts-with()	=	Equal
	contains()	!=	Not Equal
	substring-before()	<	less than
	substring-after()	<=	less than or equal to
	substring()	>	greater than
	string-length()	>=	greater than or equal to
	normalize-space()
	translate()
Boolean	boolean()
	not()	and	boolean and
	true()	or	boolean or
	false()
	lang()
Number	number()
	sum()
	floor()
	ceiling()
	round()

Examples:

"{Location}"!=concat("Toro","nto") and string-length("{Location}")>5

translate('{Location}','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')='toronto'

NEW if and select statements can be used in paragaraph command

if statement Syntax !!if condition%%string if true%%string if false!!
Example !!if "{City}"="Toronto"%%Toronto is returned%%Not Correct!!

select statement Syntax !!select value%%"value1"##string if value=value1%%"value1"##string if value=value1%%"value1"##string if value=value1!!
or
!!select value %% value1 ## return string if value=value1
%% value2 ## return string if value=value2
%% value3 ## return string if value=value3
!!

Example !!select "{Colour}"%%"Red"##Selected Colour is Dark Red%%"White"##Selected Colour is Bright White%%"Green"##Selected Colour isForest Green!!

NEW (March 15, 2011) true and false statements are now evaluated for regular expressions for both if and select commands

Example !!if"{Email}"!=""%%concat("Name:",substring-before("{Email}","@")," Domain:",substring-after("{Email}","@"))%%Nothing!!

if Email was tester@test.com then the output would be

Name: tester Domain: test.com