# dostring function equivalent
**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/dostring-function-equivalent/3049
**Category:** Lua
**Created:** [August 19, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/dostring-function-equivalent/3049 "2025-08-19T06:41:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/marcoswur)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/dostring-function-equivalent/3049/1 "2025-08-19T06:41:59Z")
Hello.
I used dostring function to execute code in string.
I will do this
```space-lua
PlotaDiario = function()
local s = [==[
---
${columns( preenche_semana2(editor.getCurrentPage()) ) }
Últimas mofificadas
${template.each (query[[from index.tag "page" order by lastModified desc limit 10]], templates.pageItem) }
]==]
return s
end
```
in a day page I put
${ PlotaDiario() }
I will use to execute the code when the page is open.
${ dostring(PlotaDiario()) }
How can a do this?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/dostring-function-equivalent/3049/2 "2025-08-19T07:58:49Z")
Hey, I’m not 100% sure what you are trying to accomplish, but I got this to work. What you want here is not to evaluate your string as Lua code, but as markdown.
Note: I had to fix a bug to make this work, so please be sure to upgrade to the latest v2 commit.
````auto
```space-lua
function PlotaDiario()
local s = [==[
Últimas mofificadas
${template.each (query[[from index.tag "page" order by lastModified desc limit 10]], templates.pageItem) }
]==]
local parsed = markdown.parseMarkdown(s)
-- This replaces the ${...} stuff with actual values
local expanded = markdown.expandMarkdown(parsed)
return markdown.renderParseTree(expanded)
end
```
${PlotaDiario()}
````
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### Author:  [@marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/marcoswur)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/dostring-function-equivalent/3049/3 "2025-08-19T13:14:22Z")
Thank you…
How can I do this?
I installed the binary (.exe) for Win64.
Do I have to download the source code and compile it?
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### Author:  [@marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/marcoswur)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/dostring-function-equivalent/3049/4 "2025-08-19T13:23:38Z")
I think I found the binary at [Release edge · silverbulletmd/silverbullet · GitHub](https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/releases/tag/edge) : silverbullet-server-windows-x86\_64.zip
I’ll try it…
Thank you very much.
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### Author:  [@marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/marcoswur)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/dostring-function-equivalent/3049/5 "2025-08-19T13:41:17Z")
## I tested it here and it returned the error.
## Últimas mofificadas **Error:** Error evaluating “name”: \_GLOBAL not defined
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/dostring-function-equivalent/3049/6 "2025-08-19T14:09:44Z")
In that case you don’t havethe latest version, this is exactly the error I fixed. Have you reloaded your browser a few times, the old version may also be cached.
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### Author:  [@marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/marcoswur)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/dostring-function-equivalent/3049/7 "2025-08-19T17:17:33Z")
* * *
My goal is to run a function that renders multiple blocks.
## Dynamic day panel:
## tasks latest modifications active projects etc.
For dynamic use in the diary.
If I want to change the layout or include a block, I just change it in the main (dynamic panel) function.
## This way, the day page has two areas:
permanent notes
* * *
dynamic panel
* * *
## I’m trying to execute two functions on the same line that return two blocks. One is Markdown and the other is HTML… The interpreter only renders one.
## ${ UltimasModificadas().. ’ \n ’ .. painelTarefasSemana() }
The result is this.
```auto
{markdown = Últimas modificadas
* [[xlib/func/teste1]]
* [[xlib/func/teste]]
* [[DIARIO/2025/08/2025-08-19]]
* [[@PAGAR]]
* [[01 FAZ_FINANCAS]]
* [[xlib/func/date_func]]
* [[xlib/func/menu_func]]
* [[DIARIO/2025/08/2025-08-16]]
* [[@desktop]]
* [[xtest/input_test]]
, display = block, cssClasses = {my-map}, _isWidget = true}
{html = , display = block, cssClasses = {my-map}, _isWidget = true}
```
I tested combining two Markdown blocks and both render.
`${ UltimasModificadas().markdown.. ' \n ' .. UltimasModificadas().markdown }`
If I pass only the HTML, it renders.
`${ painelTarefasSemana() }`
But when I pass two, and one of them is HTML, it doesn’t render.
`${ painelTarefasSemana() .. ' \n ' .. painelTarefasSemana() }`
or
`${ painelTarefasSemana().html .. ' \n ' .. painelTarefasSemana().html }`
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### Author:  [@marcoswur](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/marcoswur)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/dostring-function-equivalent/3049/8 "2025-08-22T00:28:55Z")
Regarding this issue, I found a related post…
>
>
> This addresses the issue of mixing html and md widgets, as reported in this comm…unity post: https://community.silverbullet.md/t/mixing-html-and-md-widgets/2652
>
> I’m not deeply familiar with the codebase, so I approached this by testing a few different solutions and settled on the one with the smallest footprint. It resolves the issue effectively without introducing major changes.
>
> That said, the widget code might benefit from a broader refactor, which could be tackled in a separate pull request by someone more familiar with the internals.
It seems to me that the solution was called ArrayWidget mentioned in
>
But I believe one solution would be to pass a lua table with each HTML or Markdown code block…
```auto
${ widget.list{
function() blablabla end,
function() blablabla end,
query(),
‘blablabla‘
}
```
Is this already implemented?
Or is there a similar solution?
Thanks for your attention.