Hay, I'm writing some templates but I want to convert " " into "_" within a string.
I want to convert the output of
{{ user.name }}
from something like "My Name" to "My_Name". How do I do this?
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A shorter version of Matthijs' answer:
{{ user.name.split|join:"_" }}
Of course it only works when splitting on whitespace.
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Travis Bear
Perfect! Just what I needed!
Matthijs
WOW ! how did I miss that ?
Gireesh Doddipalli
my user.name value is 'a.b' How to replace '.' with '_' in django template?
There is no built-in tag or filter to do this replacement. Write a filter that splits by a given character, and then combine that with the join filter, or write a filter that does the replacement directly.
answered Feb 2, 2010 at 15:32
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
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I like to perform this type of conversions in my view / controller code i.e.:
user.underscored_name = user.name.replace(' ','_')
context['user'] = user
dont be afraid to just add a new (temporary) property and use this in your template:
{{ user.underscored_name }}
If you use this at more places add the method underscored_name to the User model:
class User()
def underscored_name(self):
return self.name.replace(' ','_')
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IAbstract
This works as long as the attribute is not called by a django html page. Recommend setting a
self.underscored_name field in the class. +1 anyway because it helped me solve a problem.If you dont like to write your own custom tag you could do it like this ...
{% for word in user.name.split %}{{word}}{% if not forloop.last %}_{% endif %}{% endfor %}
However its quite verbose ...