Not display empty brackets ()

[Seasider]

Hi again,

I recently had a very helpful reply telling me how to add a date after a title display. This places the date in brackets, but when there is no date, it shows empty brackets - ().

Is there a code to add, please, that will not show the brackets if there is no information to display inside them?

Thank you.

[Spoon]

Is not possible because the ( ) you have added are not part of the date.

[Seasider]

Thanks for your swift reply. So, just to clarify, the code I used - preformat:=title:=[title] ([year]) - cannot have any amendment made other than to physically remove the brackets?

[Spoon]

try:

preformat:=title:=[title] [IFVALUE]year,([year]),[]

[Seasider]

Thank you for your advice.

[Seasider]

Sorry to be a pain!....but I am now trying to do the same with a custom tag of 'comment' to add info after the artist name using
'preformat:=artist:=[artist] ([tag]comment[])' . This works, but I can't figure out how to incorporate the [IFVALUE] part to ignore empty brackets.
Thanks in advance.

[Spoon]

[IFVALUE]comment,([tag]comment[]),[]

[mville]

The programmable action is [IFVALUE]tag,strifvalue,strnovalue[].

If tag has a value, then strifvalue is used, otherwise strnovalue is used, e.g. [IFVALUE]artist,Artist has a value,Artist has no value[]

So, use ([tag]comment[]), only if comment is populated i.e.[IFVALUE][tag]comment[],([tag]comment[]),[]

[Seasider]

Thanks again for your help, it is appreciated.