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Newbie Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 5

Hey all.

I'm having some odd problem with my little thingie I made.

At the moment I have triggers set up so that once there's some chat going on a specific channel my client captures the line and saves it to a text file. Then, if someone says ".random" on the said channel, my client reads a random line from the text file and pastes it on the channel. Works almost as intended. Almost. The problem is that for some reason the %random() pick the line out of the first 200 or so lines and ignores the rest of the file.

Any ideas what might be up with it?

Lemme put the rest of the stuff here..

pattern:

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:24 am

Why does %random have no parameters? You need to specify at least the maximum value for it to choose from:

#VAR randomquote %read( 1, %random(%filesize(1)))

Newbie Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 5

Well I didn't put any parameters since the file line amount was increasing all the time, so a fixed amount would be quite useless, AND I'm not a pro with this stuff yet. :) Just started fiddling with the thing the other day.

Newbie Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 5

As you can probably tell, the code also prohibits itself from writing the line which is retrieved from the file again into the same file. But with that there's also a slight oddity. If someone requests the .random quote on the channel too quickly, occasionally the quoted lines are added into the file anyway. I've tried all kinds of things (within my knowledge) but I can't seem to get rid of this problem. Ideas?

Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:51 pm

It'd help if we had some examples of the input that these triggers are recieving. For now, though, the easiest way would be to add a check to the trigger that looks something like this:

#if (!%pos(".random",%1) {save}

You could even use a single trigger for both operations:

Pattern
(%x) *lahti+]: (%x) (%x)
Script
#if (%pos(".random",%line)) {read a random line from the disk} {save the line to the disk}

Newbie Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 5

Allright I'll try that.

In the meanwhile, here's an example:

Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:00 am

In answer to your bracket woes, just for future reference - the brackets are special characters, you need to escape them with ~ so that CMUD knows you're using them as literal characters. You can then do something like this:

{~{|~[}lahti{~}|~]}
or
[~{~[]lahti[~}~]]

to match either kind of bracket.

Newbie Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 5

Oh right. Thanks again, gotta keep that in mind.