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view framework/env/format/string.lua @ 1:985024b16520
Version 1.0.1
New feature: JSON requests
Changes in ui.paginate: Current page setting is directly fetched from CGI params, instead of view params
Changed behavior of load methods of atom library to accept nil as input
Bugfixes in mondelefant_atom_connector timestamp(tz) loaders
Added global constant _WEBMCP_VERSION containing a version string
New feature: JSON requests
Changes in ui.paginate: Current page setting is directly fetched from CGI params, instead of view params
Changed behavior of load methods of atom library to accept nil as input
Bugfixes in mondelefant_atom_connector timestamp(tz) loaders
Added global constant _WEBMCP_VERSION containing a version string
| author | jbe |
|---|---|
| date | Tue Nov 17 12:00:00 2009 +0100 (2009-11-17) |
| parents | 9fdfb27f8e67 |
| children | 0c4841af07a5 |
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1 --[[--
2 text = -- a string
3 format.string(
4 value, -- any value where tostring(value) gives a reasonable result
5 {
6 nil_as = nil_text -- text to be returned for a nil value
7 }
8 )
10 Formats a value as a text by calling tostring(...), unless the value is nil, in which case the text returned is chosen by the 'nil_as' option.
12 --]]--
14 function format.string(str, options)
15 local options = options or {}
16 if str == nil then
17 return options.nil_as or ""
18 else
19 return tostring(str)
20 end
21 end