General ⇒ Conditional formatting based upon filename (\jobname)

[firebush]

Create a file test.tex with the following contents:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ifthen}

\begin{document}

\huge
\ifthenelse{\equal{test}{\jobname}}{
good
}{
bad: ``\jobname"
}
\end{document}
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Run it through pdflatex and notice that the output is bad (literally, it says ``bad: ``test""), but the jobname shows test (what the \equal command is comparing against).

What am I missing? I'm working on a project where we'd like to have different content based upon the jobname. Is this type of thing not possible with \jobname?

Thanks!

[T3.]

What am I missing?

The fact that \jobname results in characters with catcode other. See this old thread for more in-depth explanation and solution to your problem.

Cheers,

Tomek

[phi]

The solution there is too complicated (if we can assume that everyone has the eTeX extensions available). This one is simpler:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ifthen}

\begin{document}

\huge
\ifthenelse{\equal{\detokenize{test}}{\jobname}}{
good
}{
bad: ``\jobname"
}
\end{document}

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\ifthenelse{\equal{\detokenize{test}}{\jobname}}{

\detokenize works for our environment. Thanks for the immediate response, all!

[bocchi]

Hi it seems that the solution does not work for jobname like test_123.tex

[localghost]

Hi it seems that the solution does not work for jobname like test_123.tex

These difficulties are no surprise since the underscore is reserved for subscripts in math mode. It seems to cause similar problems as in the path and name of external graphics files.


Best regards
Thorsten

[bocchi]

hi
if anyone has got a solution to suggest it will be very much appreciated as I am working on a project and I cannot change the filenames so I'm pretty much stuck
many thanks

[localghost]

[...] I cannot change the filenames so I'm pretty much stuck [...]

So I'm afraid you will have to live with that. Consider to assign proper names to the files in future projects.