need helping link two template choices

[bulldogmo]

Or at least that is what I think it is called.....

I want to write one line of code that chooses to which function or line of code to use based on if the book is a series or a stand along book based on a mass save to disk.

The lines I want to combine with a either or type of code is the following:

series/{series:sublist(0,1,}/{series:sublist(0,2,}/{series:sublist(2,4,}/{series_index:0>3s} - {title}/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)} - {series} - {series_index:0>3s} - {title}

or

single books/{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title}/{author_sort} - {title}

I think an if/then type of combination would work but everything I have tried has caused errors or the output is not where or how I want it to go.

any help from those who know this coding better would be greatly appreciated.

Thank

Bulldogmo

[chaley]

I am not sure what your first template is trying to do. It appears to be trying to extract the first character of the series, then the first 2 characters, then the third and fourth characters, then other stuff.

If the above is correct then this general progrm mode template does the job.

program:
	if $series then
		template('series/{series:substr(0,1)}/{series:substr(0,2)}/{series:substr(2,4)}/{series_index:0>3s} - {title}/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)} - {series} - {series_index:0>3s} - {title}')
	else
		template('single books/{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title}/{author_sort} - {title}')
	fi

[bulldogmo]

Thank you I will try this....

[bulldogmo]

Okay, what am I doing wrong?

program:
if series_sort then
template (series/{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:0>3s} - {title}/{author_sort} - {series} - {series_index:0>3s} - {title})
else
template ( single books/{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title}/{author_sort} - {title})

What I want to do is this:
series/{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:0>3s} - {title}/{author_sort} - {series} - {series_index:0>3s} - {title}

The books will be saved to the hard drive in the directory series/author first Initial of last name, then by full name (last, first), it will then be saved by series title, then under that by series index, and book title. The formats will then be placed into that directory.

If the book is NOT part of a series, it is to be saved with this:
single books/{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title}/{author_sort} - {title}
directory single books, first letter of last name, last name and then first name, title, and finally author last name, first, and title of book.

[chaley]

I suggest that you look at the General Program Mode template language documentation, and also use other templates as a pattern, such as the one I provided in a previous post.

The template you provided:

program:
if series_sort then
template (series/{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:0>3s} - {title}/{author_sort} - {series} - {series_index:0>3s} - {title})
else
template ( single books/{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title}/{author_sort} - {title})

is not sytactically correct. It is missing many quotes that delimit strings and is missing the final "fi" of the if-then-else statement. I also don't know why you are using "if series_sort". I suspect you mean "if series_sort()", but that does the same thing as "if $series" but more slowly.

Here is a corrected version that runs.

program:
	if $series then
		template('series/{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index:0>3s} - {title}/{author_sort} - {series} - {series_index:0>3s} - {title}')
	else
		template('single books/{author_sort[0]}/{author_sort:sublist(0,1,&)}/{title}/{author_sort} - {title}')
	fi

[bulldogmo]

It works perfectly. Thank you. I am taking Python in the fall so hopefully, that will help me understand the language better.