[Tugindia] \typein with default value

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

Hello,

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:57:29AM -0000, S  Ragu wrote:
> for example
> 
> \typein[\OasesNum]{Input the OASES VERSION "e.g. 1, 2, 3
> etc."}
> 
> I am using the above-mentioned command to get the input from the 
> user. Also I need to have a provision for the default value, while 
> the customer hits the enter key without any value to the 
> variable.
> 

How about?

\typein[\OasesNum]{Input the OASES blah blah}
\makeatletter
\ifx\OasesNum\@empty\def\OasesNum{3}\fi
\makeatother

This uses LaTeX's internal \@empty for the empty object.

Kapil.

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