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Apprentice Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 154

Send within #sub variable not expanded when copied, only 1st item copies

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:14 pm

just use single quotes, not doubles no need to ~ out the <> anymore either

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:55 pm

This is the reason this doesn't work. This is your command with the parts that're strings in green:

#SUB {"You still have to kill * "%1" (~<send '"$replacepath;inzonevnums=@maproomvnums;#walk %item(@maproomvnums,1)"'~>"%2"~</send~>)"}

As shalimar says, there's no need to use ~ to quote <>s that're already inside a string. It's still important that you use speech marks "" to surround things you want to be strings - apostrophes don't mean anything in zScript syntax.

The more pressing problem, though, is the pair of semicolons that're not inside a string, which the parser will then try to interpret. Similarly, the #walk command will probably be run rather than inserted into the string because it's not inside a string. Also, your command is ambiguous - do you mean for @maproomvnums to be evaluated when the #sub command is run, or when your link is clicked? In general, this kind of implicit concatenation (where you just mash a bunch of strings together) isn't recommended. If you concatenate your string explicitly, you shouldn't have a problem.

#SUB {%concat("You still have to kill * ",%1," (<send '",$replacepath,";inzonevnums=@maproomvnums;#walk %item(@maproomvnums,1)'>",%2,"</send>)"}

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:38 am

i find that within the context of a send massage ' works better then "

<send '$replacePath;inzonevnums=@maproomvnums;#walk %item(@maproomvnums,1)'>%2</send>

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 1:21 am

Yes, shamlimar, but he's already doing that and if he hadn't, this problem would've been much more annoying. Change #sub so that it stores the string in a variable (can't show it to the screen or it'll get parsed as MXP) and you'll see what I mean.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:16 am

Apprentice Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 154

OK Xianfu I tried the method you posted an I think I have a better understanding of this now. the way you did it would have been perfect except for one problem.
When I receive these lines from the mud, I get about 10 lines back to back. each line needs to sub with their own values.
The way you posted, all lines set inzonevnums to the list of maproomvnums for the last of the patterns back to the mud, so all 10 lines are trying to set to the same maproomvnums.

Sample Output of "campaign check":

Apprentice Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 154

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:23 am

It would seem to me, Xekon, that if it is only copying one value, then there is only one value in the list.
As a test I did the following:

Apprentice Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 154

well yes that will work but when your doing sub with send it does something to it... I sill setup a test package with the triggers and variables. then this will be easier to figure out. i will upload it a little later.

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:34 pm

you could always just have the send perform an alias that handles the other things for you

Apprentice Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 154

Test Package for this.

http://jakegaisser.googlepages.com/testcp.xml

and if you would rather paste into a xml file of your own, heres the contents of the file above:

Apprentice Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 154

Ive been reading over the forums looking through scripts trying to come up with a solution to this but i cannot seem to find one. Any takers? The test package above should get you started and show you in detail the problem that I am having. All you have to do is run the variable test. Then take a look at the contents of currentvnums... you will see that it only has one of the room vnums, instead of all of them.