I've run into a bit of trouble formatting within an $if conditional and i wonder is there a known issue with using a | symbol in a $if then else statement.

what makes me think there might be is

VA|%album% works

$if($strcmp($substr(%directoryname%,1,2),VA),VA - %album%,%artist% - %title%) works. sends through VA -album name if its a various artists album and artist - title if not.

$if($strcmp($substr(%directoryname%,1,2),VA),VA|%album%,%artist%|%title%) doesn't work, this no longer sees 2 options and sends through VA album artist title for all files processed.

Can anyone shed some light?

Where do you use that (foobar2000 version and component)?

Try quoting | with ' (single quotation mark).

I'm using version 0.9.4.2 with the MediaBridge/Girder Plugin, the string is going into the configuration box to set up the media library root. Normally the | symbol denotes a new branch in the library tree.



I tried with a ' mark like '|' but it didn't fix anything

I played around with it a little more and found if i put my test string into the Album List Panel configuration box it works just fine, for me this indicates its not an issue of the $if statement but more likely a problem for the plugin. I guess i'm on my own now....

Well Well Well.....

I found the exact answers i needed in the 'Intermediate users guide', it even had an example!

The code that works includes the $if after every pipe.



I only have one problem left and that is that it sends an empty branch at the end of every non VA track, i guess this is the last pipe before it starts failing the $if test so sends nothing.

My question is, is this a problem with my string? or something that needs to be fixed in the plug?

An answer might save me hours of heartache.

The last problem was the spaces after the | in the code, took them out and the empty branches disappeared.

NICE!