limit tag in for loops

[ThanosFisherman]

Hi,

is there a limit tag like there is in Liquid templating that would allow me to exit a loop at specified index?

What I want:

 {% for item in numbers limit:4 %}
    {{ item }}
  {% endfor %}

How I worked this around

 {% for item in numbers %}
   {% if loop.index <= 3 %}
      {{ item }}
   {% endif %}
 {% endfor %}

But my solution is too verbose and I don't like it. Any suggestions? Furthermore I'd enjoy having more tags like this for example offset maybe break or continue as well as ranges.

Am I asking for too much for a template language?

[cjbrooks12]

Slice should help https://pebbletemplates.io/wiki/filter/slice/

[ThanosFisherman]

Slice works great if you already know the length of an array you are about to slice. But if you enter a number bigger than the array length in toIndex parameter then you get

.PEB Syntax Error: toIndex must be smaller than input size: 3

in contrast with limit which will give you what's already available up until the limit number. Therefore in my case if the array length is smaller than 4, limit would give me all the array elements.

My use case is to display the 4 most recent posts in my orchid website and my solution works but I was just wondering if there's something more idiomatic.

[ebussieres]

I think that we can change slice and take the collection size when the toIndex is greater than the collection size. That way, you can achieve what you want.

What do you think ?

[ThanosFisherman]

Yes that would work great for my case I think. Should you prefer to modify the slice operator instead of creating a new one, that I leave it up to you :)

[ebussieres]

Fix's gonna be available in next release