Conditional with text string variable

[jorge_marti]

Hi colleagues,

I want to configure schedulers linked to the RTC modes in a "User friendly" way.

In the scheduler, tje value to set different Comfort, Night or standby modes are numbers, for End User that is not comprehensive.

What I planed:

- Schedulers with 14 bytes variables and string value with the values: COMFORT, NIGHT or STANDBY

- To convert these strings to the corresponding value (1,2,3) I plan an script... but then my question appears:

     How can I use a conditional and string?

Tried:

if (value == 'COMFORT') then

......

end

But when saving, system rejects it. I tried with "COMFORT" also.

How can this be done?

Do you have any other idea how to do the same in a User Friendly way?

Thanks a lot

[lfiat]

Hi Jorge,

I tested quickly this script:

value = 'COMFORT'

if (value == 'COMFORT') then

  log("Test1: OK value = COMFORT")

else

  log("Test1: NOK value != COMFORT: value =",value)

end

value = 'NIGHT'

if (value == 'COMFORT') then

  log("Test2: OK value = COMFORT")

else

  log("Test2: NOK value != COMFORT: value =",value)

end

=> it works: see screenshot of log page.

So I don't understand your issue?

Regards

Lionel

[vaca]

Hi,

or you can do it via Lua table with simple mapping:

local mapping = { COMFORT = 1, NIGHT = 2, STANDBY = 3 }
realValue = mapping[value]

or more general mapping if you need to do some code with mapping

local mapping = {
    COMFORT = function()
        -- some coding like 'local a = 5; return 1'
    end,
    NIGHT = function()
        -- some coding like 'grp.update("1/1/20", 18); return 2'
    end,
    STANDBY = function()
        -- some coding like 'log("hurray, it's working"); return 3'
    end,
}
realValue = mapping[value]()

[jorge_marti]

Thanks colleagues for helpful answers.

Finally I did it with "Custom Values". I'm learning by doing!