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Beginner Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 21

i know the delayed %%1 syntax was removed in cmud but i believe this is a bit different and am curious as to how one should now go about it. here's my script:

auc.hit = 1
#exec {auc%2.mod = 1~;auc%2.active = 1~;auc%2.noLog = 0~;auc%2.item = ~%quote~(~"%1~"~)~;auc%2.going = ~{%ansi(bold,magenta)OPEN~}~;auc%2.wasGoing = ~{0~}~;auc%2.auctioneer = ~{%4~}~;auc%2.amount = ~{~%replace~(~"%3~",~",~",~"~"~)~}~;auc%2.bid = ~{~@auc%2.amount~}~;auc%2.upbid = ~{~@auc%2.amount~}~;auc%2.upbidNum = ~{0~}~;auc%2.bidder = ~{-None-~}~;auc%2.time = ~{%eval( (((%time( "d") * 24) * 60) * 60) + ((%time( "h") * 60) * 60) + (%time( "nn") * 60) + %time( "ss"))~}}
#exec {auc%2.stat = ~"~"}
#exec {~#if ~(~@auc%2.amount >= 1000000~) ~{auc%2.amountShort = ~{~%left(~@auc%2.amount,~%eval~(~%len~(~@auc%2.amount~) ~- 6~)~)~.~%left~(~%right~(~@auc%2.amount,~%eval~(~%len~(~@auc%2.amount~) ~- 6~)~),2~)m~}~} ~{auc%2.amountShort = ~@auc%2.amount~}}
#exec {auc%2.upbidShort = ~@auc%2.amountShort}
auc.lastUpdate = %eval( (((%time( "d") * 24) * 60) * 60) + ((%time( "h") * 60) * 60) + (%time( "nn") * 60) + %time( "ss"))
auc.update = 1
auc.read = 1
auc.reading = {%2}

while that's a lot of garbage to read the main point i'm wondering on is the:

#exec {auc%2.mod = 1}

...sort of stuff. this worked fairly well in zMud and kept me from writing an assload of triggers and whatnot. now this sort of thing seems to net me a completely botched database record variable. any clues?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

These should be some working examples for all the things you were doing. Change your wildcard for capturing %3 to %n and the commas will be automatically stripped. Basically your entire usage of #EXEC is a really bad thing.

Beginner Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 21

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:02 pm

Use an explicit concat, like %concat("auc",@temp) or ("auc" + @temp) rather that all those implicit concats. They're only going to lead to trouble.

CMUD is more strict than zMUD about when you can implicitly concat - personally, I wish it were stricter.

Also, there's an unmatched bracket on line 7.