Zugg Software :: View topic - Captured Varible with Multiple words, expanding them separately

Beginner Joined: 30 Jul 2009 Posts: 11

I am trying to get text I captured into a varible that has mulitiple words to expand into seperate words.

Example: @mobname = A grey fox

I want to make an alias that will do:

where A
where grey
where fox

Ultimately it would not do a where for a, the, etc. I can live with that if I can get the rest to work though.

Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:04 pm

You want to take a look at %replace, #forall and #if because you need to replace the spaces in the string with bars which allows you to loop through each item with #forall and while you have each item do a check with #if and ignore it if it's an A or the. You might want to do a %lower to the string first of all as that makes it easier doing the word checking with #if.

EDIT: Oh and you could keep the unwanted words in a string list variable and use a %ismember to do the unwanted word checking in one #if statement.

Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:46 pm

#FORALL "a|an|the|etc" {mobname=%trim(%replace(%lower(@mobname), %i))}
#LOOP %numwords(@mobname) {where %word(@mobname, %i)}

Beginner Joined: 30 Jul 2009 Posts: 11

This works pretty well, but if the mob name has an a|an|the, etc in it, it is being stripped also.

So the reaper is coming out as...

where reper

Thanks though, still much better than I had!

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:00 pm

Try this

#FORALL "a|an|the|etc" {mobname=%trim(%subregex(%lower(@mobname), %concat("\b",%i,"\b")))}

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 11:24 pm

It might be simpler just to do:

mobname=%trim(%subregex(%lower(@mobname),"\b(a|an|the|whatever)\b"))

which avoids the loop and multiple regex compiles.

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:27 pm

You'd have to loop somewhere though otherwise you'd have just grey fox rather than grey and then fox.