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| ID | 260🔗 |
|---|---|
| Date: | 2023-06-22 17:26:07 |
| Last update: | 2023-06-26 09:24:37 |
| Status | Open Sign in if you want to bump this report. |
| Category | datatool |
| Version | 2.32 |
| Summary | \DTLifstringeq (and others) leads to a "Misplaced \noalign" error |
| Cross Ref | 130 |
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Description
Hi,I'm trying to use
\DTLifstringeq inside a \DTLforeach loop to conditionally apply a specific row color.However, the use of
\rowcolor in either the true or false branch of \DTLifstringeq leads to an error of type "Misplaced \noalign".If other tests are used such as
\DTLifoddrow, \DTLiffirstrow or \DTLiflastrow everything works fine.I think this issue is related to the Bug Report 130.
Following what was done to fix the bug 130, I looked at the definition of \DTLifstringeq in datatool-base.sty:
\newcommand*{\@DTLifstringeq}[4]{%
\protected@edef\@dtl@tmpcmp{%
\noexpand\dtlcompare{\noexpand\@dtl@tmpcount}{#1}{#2}}%
\@dtl@tmpcmp
\ifnum\@dtl@tmpcount=0\relax
#3%
\else
#4%
\fi
}
I've changed this to:
\newcommand*{\@DTLifstringeq}[4]{%
\protected@edef\@dtl@tmpcmp{%
\noexpand\dtlcompare{\noexpand\@dtl@tmpcount}{#1}{#2}}%
\@dtl@tmpcmp
\ifnum\@dtl@tmpcount=0 % space intended
#3%
\else
#4%
\fi
}
But this did not fixed the problem.Is there a way to have
\DTLifstringeq to work as \DTLifoddrow and not throw an error when using \rowcolor?Thanks.
MWE
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\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{data.csv}
name
first
dsdd
second
third
fourth
fifth
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{datatool}
\DTLloaddb{sample}{data.csv}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{c}
% \rowcolor{orange}%
\textbf{name}
\DTLforeach{sample}{\word=name}{%
\\
\DTLifstringeq{\word}{second}{\rowcolor{red}}{} % Does not work
% \rowcolor{yellow} % Works
% \DTLifoddrow{\rowcolor{green}}{} % Works
% \DTLiffirstrow{\rowcolor{blue}}{} % Works
% \DTLiflastrow{\rowcolor{orange}}{} % Works
\word
}
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
Evaluation
Unfortunately loops and conditionals can be very problematic inside tabular-like environments. The same problem occurs using etoolbox's \ifdefstring instead of \DTLifstringeq:
\begin{tabular}{c}
% \rowcolor{orange}%
\textbf{name}
\DTLforeach{sample}{\word=name}{%
\\
\ifdefstring{\word}{second}{\rowcolor{red}}{}% Does not work either
% \DTLifstringeq{\word}{second}{\rowcolor{red}}{} % Does not work
% \rowcolor{yellow} % Works
% \DTLifoddrow{\rowcolor{green}}{} % Works
% \DTLiffirstrow{\rowcolor{blue}}{} % Works
% \DTLiflastrow{\rowcolor{orange}}{} % Works
\word
}
\end{tabular}
One possible solution uses LaTeX3 code:
\ExplSyntaxOn
\newcommand{\ifstrtest}[4]{\str_if_eq:eeTF {#1} {#2} {#3} {#4} }
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{tabular}{c}
\textbf{name}
\DTLforeach{sample}{\word=name}{%
\\
\ifstrtest{\word}{second}{\rowcolor{red}}{}
\word
}
\end{tabular}
An alternative approach would be to construct the content of the tabular environment as follows:
\newcommand{\tabcontent}{\begin{tabular}{c}\textbf{name}}
\DTLforeach{sample}{\word=name}{%
\appto\tabcontent{\\}%
\DTLifstringeq{\word}{second}{\appto\tabcontent{\rowcolor{red}}}{}%
\eappto\tabcontent{\expandonce{\word}}%
}
\appto\tabcontent{\end{tabular}}
\tabcontent
This moves all the problematic code outside of the tabular environment. (This is essential what glossaries-extra's \printunsrtglossary does to avoid similar problems.)
I'm in the process of rewriting datatool to use new LaTeX3 commands, but it will take some time before it's finished.
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