Re: Combining default! and ?number

Klotz, Leigh wrote:
> In FM 2.3.12, I'd like to assign a variable to be a number which is
> either parsed from a string parameter (perhaps from a query string), or
> default it to a fixed constant.  I'm not sure if there's a concise
> syntax for doing this.
> 
> The first code I saw to do this was like this:
>  <#assign page>${pageArg!1}</#assign>			[1]
> 
> But then all users from then on had to do
>     page?number + 1
> to refer to it.  Unfortunately, that fails because page is now a number,
> and next time, page?number will fail.
> 
> So I changed it to this:
> 
> <#assign page = pageArg!1 />
> 
> This works when pageArg isn't specified, as does this
>    page + 1
> work properly on every iteration.
> 
> However, when pageArg it specified, it turns page into a string, so it
> fails again.

Hold on a sec. You're running into a bug in 2.4. I just checked and

${12?number}

works in 2.3 but fails in 2.4 because somehow, it thinks the lhs has to 
be a string, which is kind of true, but actually, if the lhs is already 
a number, it should just return the number.

So the above should work, it's a bug.

JR


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