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Wanderer Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 71

I'd like to deal with changing descriptions for day/night on my mud by formatting such descriptions in the mapper database thusly:

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 5:33 pm

Where are you entering the information? Are you doing it by hand? Are you modifying the room description itself, or are you making a userint string with the information?

If you're doing it as part of a userint string, you can put the pipe ("|") character to separate the two (can just do %additem via script) and then you can expand it with %expandlist using %cr as the modifier.

You can use %cr if you're doing it by hand, as well.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

It sounds like you are already using #TAG to designate the room description? If not, that's the command to use. As for the soft return, the pre-defined variable %cr designates a carriage return. It can be inserted into a string with %concat(), %insert(), #SUB, etc.

Wanderer Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 71

Yep, I'm using #tag for new rooms and %roomdesc for existing rooms. I'm avoiding using the UserStr field for this, as this field is also useful for me in other ways, and putting a lonnng text string in that field as well would make it rather un-human-readable.

%cr was just the thing I was looking for, though maybe %char(10) would work too? Note to self, check the pre-defined variables list more often.

I bet I can get things working with these.

Wanderer Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 71

For completeness, here's an example of my script for the conversion task. The pattern matches any room description, though I won't bother showing or explaining it - it's quite a beast.
the script below tags the modified description for the mapper (in case a new room is being created), then calls %roomdesc to update previously existing rooms. If the room is missing a description, one is added. If the room has a stored description, but it doesn't match the description output by the mud, the currently stored description is assumed to be the nighttime description, and it is updated. Obviously this version is suitable for daytime walking.