Re: numeric value replacement

Thanks for reply Jonathan..!
I tried your solution and it works !!!
It works even when my hashkey is not a string , I am passing hashkey as 
input.put ("101", "blah blah");

Does this mean .vars is considering the value passed as string ?





Jonathan Revusky-3 wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Samy123 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for confusion...here is the code snippet
>>
>> String s="<#if  StateCode?? && StateCOde == 'FL' > The rent information
>> is
>> as follows ${101}  </#if>";
>> StringBuffer sbuf=new StringBuffer();
>> sbuf.append(s);
>>
>> Map input = new HashMap();
>>    input.put("stateCode", "FL");
>>    input.put("101", " $199.99 per year..state charges will be levied as
>> per
>> the aggreement"); //new Integer(101).intValue() ?
>>
>> Template template = new Template("stringTemplate", new
>> StringReader(sbuf.toString()), new Configuration());
>>
>> StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
>>        template.process(input, sw);
>>
>>  System.out.println("===="+sw.toString());
>>
>> I am not getting any error on this,but in log i am getting 101 printed
>> instead of the actual value of 101.
> 
> Variable names in FreeMarker are basically like variable names in Java
> (with a minor difference or two) so you can't have a variable name
> that is a number.
> 
> Now, you could get at a variable that has a key that is numerical by
> writing:
> 
> ${.vars["101"]}
> 
> instead of ${101}
> 
> but even then you still need for the hash key to be a string, i.e.
> 
> input.put ("" + 101, "blah blah");
> 
> 
> 
> Use ${.vars[
> 
>> Hope it helps.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ========
>>
>> Attila Szegedi-3 wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah - I'm sorry, but I can't understand the problem either. How about
>>> you show us a snippet of template code, show us what output (or error)
>>> it produces, and describe what would you expect instead?
>>>
>>> Attila.
>>>
>>> On 2008.06.05., at 10:43, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thursday, June 5, 2008, 7:12:08 AM, Samy123 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi-
>>>>> Is there any way to replace value of a number with the desired
>>>>> value..
>>>>> for ex. I am having a following line in the template
>>>>> The condition is ${120}.
>>>>>
>>>>> And the value of 120 is  stored in the string as "for number a
>>>>> specific
>>>>> number".
>>>>> Now how can I replace the value of 120 with the string?
>>>>> As of now while running the freemarker,it is printing the number
>>>>> 120 as it
>>>>> is and not replacing with the string.
>>>>
>>>> You may need to rephrase this whole question because certainly nobody
>>>> will understand it. I don't understand it at least. As ${aNumber} will
>>>> be replaced in the output with a character sequence, the value of
>>>> aNumber will be converted to string without asking. If you want to
>>>> convert a number to a string inside a more complex expression, like in
>>>> ${iNeedAString(aNumber)}, then you should write aNumber?c or
>>>> aNumber?string, depending on whether you want "computer audience" or
>>>> "human audience" formatting. See:
>>>> http://freemarker.org/docs/ref_builtins_number.html
>>>>
>>>>> (tested on 2.1.12 of freemarker).
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> ~Samir
>>>
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