[fidvo]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Invoking templates inside GPM is ugly (and slower) why not use this?

program:

# Initialize repetitive and/or complicated values for later use.
path = re(
	field('#path'),
	'\.',
	'/'
);
seriesid = re(
	field('#seriesid'),
	'\.',
	'/'
);
titleid = re(
	field('#titleid'),
	'\.',
	'/'
);

sidx = finish_formatting(
	field('series_index'),
	'0>3s',
	'',
	'_'
);
subsidx = finish_formatting(
	field('#subseries_index'),
	'0>3s',
	'',
	'_'
);

# Compute final return value.
switch(
	current_library_name(),
	'Library - Main',
	strcat(
		path, '/', sidx, field('#subseries'), subsidx, field('title')
	),
	'Library - Special',
	strcat(
		path, '/', sidx, field('title')
	),
	'Library - In Progress',
	strcat(
		field('author_sort'), '/', field('series'), '/', sidx, field('title')
	),
	strcat(
		path, '/', seriesid, titleid
	)
)

You're right; that does look a lot cleaner, especially since I tend to use similar custom fields in all my libraries, so setting those values outside the main code block makes sense.

I'll have to give this a try.