[output_capture]

Description

The basic method to get custom tags to output text and html is to build a string that returns your desired output, which works fine for small to medium chunks of code, but can be a pain for longer and more complex output. The purpose of this code is to take the output that would ordinarily be generated by a block of Lasso code and capture it to a variable, rather than outputting it directly to the page (or discarding it as is the case in custom tags). UPDATE: According to the comments, this may require Lasso 8.1 or higher

Sample Usage

[var('ret') = '']
[output_capture($ret)]
My name is [if(action_param('network') == 'FOX')]Judge[else(action_param('network') == 'NBC')]Earl[else]Slim Shady[/if].
[/output_capture]

[$ret] now evaluates to: 
My name is Earl
.

Source Code

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// output_capture tag definition
define_tag('output_capture', -required='captureTo', -container);
	local('ret') = run_children;
	#captureTo = #ret;
/define_tag;

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