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The Node Pico Engine supports the beesting operator in extended quotes, and does not suffer from the parser limitation on expressions using the right curly brace, |
KRL extended quotes support the beesting operator, making them simple templating systems. Inside an extended quote, expression values can be referenced using the #{<expr>} syntax. For example, suppose you've stored 10 and 20 in the variables a and b:
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somevar = <<
The average of #{a} and #{b} is #{(a + b)/2}
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The value of somevar would be "The average of 10 and 20 is 15."
A beesting is escaped with a backslash (\#{).
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You cannot If you try to insert non-scalar values into a string using the beesting syntax, only their types will be printed. For a non-scalarsscalar, use the | ||
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Because of a limitation in the parser, you cannot use expressions that contain a right curly brace, }, inside a beesting. The parser simply finds the first right curly brace after the start of the beesting and considers that the end. So, for example, you cannot do this somevar = <<This is my first name: #{name{first}}>>; |