[solved] {if $page_alias == 'something'}{do nothing....?}

[ladyr0gue]

I am trying to figure out if this is possible!

I would like my news summary to appear on every page except for my news page, which has the summary as the main content.
How do I achieve this without doing what I am at the moment which puts a content block which is surplus to requirements on every page (I don't even need it on news page as I have another content block which appears below the news summary or in it's place if it doesn't exist.)

current code

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{if $page_alias == 'news'}
{content block='some content'}
{else}
{news number="1"}
{/if}

[ladyr0gue]

ooh ooh ooh! just tried

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{if $page_alias == 'news'}
{*}
{else}
{news number="1"}
{/if}

and it seems to work! joy of joys. is this correct?

[Rolf]

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{if $page_alias != 'news'}
{news number="1"}
{/if}

[ladyr0gue]

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{if $page_alias != 'news'}
{news number="1"}
{/if}

Ah thank you Rolf! I would never have worked that out - looks like the opposite of what I want but I can confirm that it works perfectly and is a rather neater solution than mine

it's the '!', isn't it - that makes the argument negative... I'm learning something new every day!