[chaley]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

if select(ids, 'url') then
	if 
		'(Archive of Our Own|Fanfiction.net)' in $publisher 
		&& '(Completed|Abandoned|Oneshot|Incomplete)' in status
	then "metadata.png"

	elif
		!select(ids, 'ao3')
		&& $publisher == 'Archive of Our Own' 
		&& status == 'In-Progress'
		then 'metadata.png' 
	
	elif 
		!select(ids, 'ffnet')
		&& $publisher == 'FanFiction.net'
		&& status == 'In-Progress'
		then "metadata.png" 
	fi 
fi

Would it be able to combine the two bottom elifs into one? Regex (ao3|ffnet) is one way, but is there a way to keep the id/publisher pair separate from each other?

I think you mean something like this:

program:
	if 
		'(Archive of Our Own|Fanfiction.net)' in $publisher 
		&& '(Completed|Abandoned|Oneshot|Incomplete)' in status
	then "metadata.png"

	elif	(!select(ids, 'ao3')
		 && $publisher == 'Archive of Our Own' 
		 && status == 'In-Progress' )
	      ||
		(!select(ids, 'ffnet')
		 && $publisher == 'FanFiction.net'
		 && status == 'In-Progress')
	then
		"metadata.png" 
	fi

EDIT: Another question:

Attachment 191967

Did I somehow accidentally turn it into last_non_empty?

No. But by using a semicolon instead of a comma you turned the two 'if' statements into a single statement sequence, not two parameters. The value of a statement sequence is the last statement in the sequence, in your case the authors if.

It should look like this:

program:
	first_non_empty(
		if $title then 'title' fi, <==== comma here
		if $authors then 'authors' fi
	)