@pdg_input - always evaluates to the first input of the current workitem. Use @pdg_input.1 and @pdg_input.2 etc. to address other inputs. When a workitem is being evaluated on the farm, this is how to make sure the network being evaluated has the correct inputs for that workitem. Do not use @pdg_output for this purpose, as the workitem has not computed yet and so has no output.
@pdg_output - always evalutes to the first output of the current workitem. Use @pdg_output.1 and @pdg_output.2 etc. to address other outputs. Useful for visualization purposes (eg. File sop with @pdg_output will display current workitem output if it's a geometry). Do not use for other purposes.
@pdg_index - the index of the current workitem - may not be unique within even a single processor. Check in the case of your processor node.
@pdg_name - the unique name of the current workitem.
@pdg_log - the log file if present, available after a workitem has finished cooking.
@pdg_frame - the frame of the workitem. Will evaluate to 0 if the workitem doesn't have a frame.
@pdg_loopdepth - set to the depth of the for loop. So for example if you have a nested loop, the inner loop will have @pdg_loopdepth set to 1, and the other loop will be 0.
Padding: note that any numberical attribute can be padded with :number. For example, @pdg_index:4 will pad it with zeros to make sure it's 4 digits.
strcmp(@attrib, "string_value.5") == 0
When filtering by a string attribute, you need to use the strcmp function to compare strings.