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Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

So here I am once again with a little more advanced problem that I have been fighting. This problem is revolving around a prot message that you get when inspecting a friend. A typical message could look like this.

"The target is affected by prot1, prot2, prot3, prot4."

I tried searching the cmud help files, but didn't get far. One thing I noticed, is that you can play with write file. Doing something like this

^The target is affected by (*)
#WRITE 1 %1

Where 1 is an already created textfile called prots. Then if you use grep, you can find out if there your word is in there or not. Let's say the textfile looks like this "hi, my, name, is, bob." and you do something like this,

#SHOW %grep(1,"bob"), it will output something like this "hi, my, name, is, bob.|hi, my, name, is, bob.". But if I will try and find a word, maybe "sweden", then there will be no output at all. But I can't just go out and create a trigger for that output, since there are more things that look just liek that. Is there another way to do this?

The main thing I want to do is to do a check if a certain prot is up or not.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

As an example for what you want to do based on the information you gave. Simply enter at the command line.

Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

OMG, OMG! %replace was just what I was looking for. I am going to play some more with my thoughts, and probably get to a solution that will work. I will post what I did if I succeeded. :P

Novice Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 33 Location: Sweden

Ok, this is probably done way wrong or something, but it works! Didn't spend so much time on it because I was mad as hell because I couldn't get it to work(do still not understand the reason). Got it to work, and don't have enough knowledge about cmud to make it better...yet. I mean, the most advanced that I have done before this one was a run macro with if statements.

Apprentice Joined: 03 Nov 2007 Posts: 132

Okay here is what I would do to simplify that. I'm assuming that you have a list of current protection type things such as "Holy wisdom|Brain unpain|Eyes of the Tiger". You want to go through that list and add some particular words/chars to the protsup variable which you will then use to do something else. Here's a simpler way to do it:

Make a database record variable. You can read up on these but basically they allow you to have a key matched with a value. In your case the key would get things like "Holy wisdom", "Brain unpain" etc. and the value would be things like "Holy wis" and "BUP". So you build your database record:

#VAR MyRecord {Holy wisdom=Holy wis|Brain unpain=BUP} etc. etc. etc. Put it all in there. This would be like a database storage for you. You wouldn't change it unless you were adding a new protection key.

Now I'm assuming your test array is something that changes based on changing conditions in your mud? That's just a guess. So your "test" array may look something like "Holy wisdom|Brain unpain|Eyes of the Tiger"? Maybe? Anyway that's what I'm guessing! You can just make that a simple string list. So you could do something very simple like:

#LOOPDB @MyRecord {#IF (%ismember(%key, @test)) {#VAR protsup %concat(@protsup,%val, " | ")}}
pp @protsup

What you basically say with this code is "Loop through my database record that I store all my protection stuff in. If any key in that database record (keys being like "Holy wisdom", "Brain unpain") is a member of my current "test" list, then concat the value of that key (values being things like "Holy wis" and "BUP") as well as a " | " onto my protsup variable.

Just an idea on how to make it cleaner and easier to maintain.