[ownedbycats]

Question: Due to that composite column recursion glitch, I did this to avoid using variables in the template:

program:
	if 
			$#fanficcat 
		&& 
			$#currentlyreading 
		&& 
			$#kobobookmark
	then		
		 strcat(format_number(subtract((re($#kobobookmark, '.*\/file(\d+).*', '\1')), 1), '{0:,d}'), '/',$$#chaptercount)

	fi

Now that it's fixed in source, would changing them back to variables make the template run any more efficiently?

program:
input = $#kobobookmark;
a = re(input, '.*\/file(\d+).*', '\1');


	if 
			$#fanficcat 
		&& 
			$#currentlyreading 
		&& 
			$#kobobookmark
	then
		
		strcat(format_number(subtract(a, 1), '{0:,d}'), '/',$$#chaptercount)

	fi

Context: This template shows how many chapters of a fanfic I've read compared to how many exist. It checks that the book is a fanfic that's currently being read, then it extracts the number and since I pause at chapter beginnings it subtracts one:



ideally, it'd also check that $#kobobookmark starts with OEBPS/file but I've not quite figured out how to get it working yet.