Re: [Semediawiki-user] #expr: and Type: number adding commas

[Phlox <mak...@gm...>]

Thanks Yaron for the response and for creating that extension- it is
attractive for its power in expressing aggregations in a tidier fashion.

Unfortunately it is not yet installed at wikia.com so I must fumble along
with stone axes in the meantime.

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Yaron Koren <ya...@gm...> wrote:

> I'm biased, of course, but I'd recommend using my extension, Semantic
> Internal Objects:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Internal_Objects
>
> I think it's a better solution for compound data than multi-valued
> properties, for several reasons, among them the difficulty of parsing out
> data that's stored with multi-valued properties.
>
> -Yaron
>
>
>   On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Phlox <mak...@gm...> wrote:
>
>>  I have the feeling I am overlooking something terribly obvious and
>> perhaps someone can point out what obvious place I have left my glasses.
>>
>> I have a number in an N-ary property with a number.  Plain output
>> (?<property># -) does not give me numbers without commas.  If I feed the
>> number into an expr: with a comma, then it complains about it.  I can strip
>> the comma with a #replace, or I can produce comma less numbers by bogusly
>> declaring the number as a Date.
>>
>> Help:custom units <http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Custom_units>describes creating custom datatypes, but it's not clear to me from the docs
>> I can use this to remove the commas.
>>
>> Does anyone have a tidier solution to the goal of getting a value that can
>> be numerically range searched but does not format it in a way that makes
>> #expr complain?
>>
>> -Phlox
>>
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