Posted by dc on 06/06/05 20:52

I think it is because the equation starts off with a - sign, so it got
treated as a string concatenation. breaking it into two separate
statements solved things...

/dc

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 01:56:01 +0900, Joe Stump <joe@joestump.net> wrote:

> {math equation="a - b" a=-60 b=$posX assign="offSetX"}
>
> That doesn't work? If not then that's a bug IMO with math. Also your
> example looks good, did you try adding parenthesis? ie. {assign
> var="offSetX" value=(-60 - $possX)}
>
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> On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:50 AM, dc wrote:
>
>> how do i just get the result of a calc assigned to a variable?
>>
>> eg:
>> {assign var='offSetX' value=-60-$posX }
>>
>> if posX is 30 returns:
>> "-60-30"
>>
>> whereas i want -90
>>
>> math and eval dont seem to be the way to do it either...
>>
>> even tho i have done really tricky stuff in smarty, every time i go
>> away for a day i get stumped by the syntax on variables. it really is
>> kind of un-intuitive...
>>
>> {capture ... } ?
>>
>> /dc
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