PLEG and GCal3 logic

Plugins & Plugin Development Program Logic (PLEG)
#1

I’m trying to look at a GCal3 day’s event(s) and set a condition on a partial match e.g. “No School” looking at the GCal3 parameters the only field that has the total days events listed is the “gc_jsonEvents”. The others fields seem to list singular events as they arise through out the day, so I thought that I could use Device Properties with “p_GCalEvents; gc_jsonEvents” which did bring the total day’s events (worked). I then created a test condition ‘p_GCalEvents == “No School”’ at first I thought it worked as it provided a True value but after further testing with a different test condition ‘p_GCalEvents == “Swimming”’ it too provided a True value where there is no “Swimming” value within the “gc_jsonEvents”. What am I doing wrong and is there a better way to accomplish this? Mike

#2

== is a numerical comparison.
You need to use string comparison operators:
eq ne ~=

#3

Richard, Many thanxs for the clarification. I should have known that as I’ve used the same in my weather condition used in another of my PLEGs. Mike

[glow=red,2,300]Second question: [/glow] I’m using the “gc_jsonEvents” variable with the current today’s events;

[ { "eventDescription": "none", "eventParameter": "", "eventName": "NO SCHOOL - SPRING BREAK", "eventEnd": 1492747200, "eventStart": 1492142400 }, { "eventDescription": "none", "eventParameter": "", "eventName": "HOUSEKEEPING - MONICA", "eventEnd": 1492527600, "eventStart": 1492524000 }, { "eventDescription": "none", "eventParameter": "", "eventName": "MOVIE - SMURF VILLAGE", "eventEnd": 1492543800, "eventStart": 1492534800 }, { "eventDescription": "none", "eventParameter": "", "eventName": "MARY WORK", "eventEnd": 1492572600, "eventStart": 1492542000 } ] (as shown in the device properties current value).
Will the following condition statement 'p_GCalEvents eq "NO SCHOOL"' work or am I still missing something? Mike
#4

You want to use =~
Thats a substring match

eq would required a character for character match, and your gc_jsonEvents has a LOT of characters … so it will not match something with a few characters.

#5

Richard, thanxs that worked like champ! ;D

In your previous post you had indicated “eq ne ~=” which I originally did not pickup on, is there any significance/difference using ne eq order? Mike

#6

eq and ne does not matter which string is on the left side and which is on the right.

=~ will give you different results if you flip the arguments.
The left side is the string to search, the right side is the string you are looking for.

#7

Again thanxs for explanation. Mike