[Resolved] Comparing a portion of a string in Conditional output

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[briana-5]

Regarding conditional output: Is there a way to test just a portion of a string using conditional statements ("wpv-conditional if")?
For example if the field contains values like:
CX24, CX56, etc. and I want the conditional to compare just the first two characters of that string ("CX") is there an operator or expression to do that?

[Nigel Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Timezone: Europe/London (GMT+01:00)]

Hi Briana

The only comparison operators available are equals, not equals, and greater/less than (https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/conditional-html-output-in-views/#comparison-operator).

So if you want a partial match comparison you'll need to write a custom function or shortcode to perform the comparison and register that for use in the wpv-conditional shortcode (see https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/conditional-html-output-in-views/using-shortcodes-in-conditions/#checking-custom-shortcodes).

Here's a custom shortcode that you might want to adapt to your needs (don't forget to register it):

add_shortcode( 'contains', function( $atts ){

	global $post;
	$return = -1;

	$atts = shortcode_atts( [ 'string' => '', 'field' => null ], $atts );

	if ( isset( $atts['field'] ) ) {

		$key = 'wpcf-' . $atts['field'];

		$field = get_post_meta( $post->ID, $key, true );

		$return = strpos( $field, $atts['string'] );

		if ( $return === false ) {
			$return = -1;
		}
	}
	return $return;

});

You pass a field slug for the custom field to test and a string for what you are searching for, e.g.

[wpv-conditional if="( '[contains field='arbitrary-text' string='ABC']' gte '0' )"]Contains ABC[/wpv-conditional]