Zugg Software :: View topic - Capturing a room description into a string variable

Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

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Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:15 pm

try making #TAGs, and add an #OK to the exit line, so long as the mapper can properly capture it, you can reference it via %roomdesc

Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

This is not for the mapper.. I have no idea how to use the mapper at all. Just looking to take everything into a string list.

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:19 pm

I'm just saying that what you want is already included with the mapper.
If you can get the mapper to work, you wont need this.

Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

I don't see how the mapper would do what I want this to do. Isn't that just going to keep it all in %roomdesc?

This string is intented to be used in a loop to 'exam' every word in the description to look for clues, etc.

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:23 pm

try something like...

#TR "roomdescs" {*} {#FORALL %replace(%line, " ", "|") {#ADDITEM testVar %i}}

Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

That definitely captures it all. I'll be able to use it in my loop now. Thanks a bunch Shalimar :) Perhaps I will get around to using the mapper.. but I just got back, and it is enough to be relearning triggers, etc :)

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:30 pm

no problem, glad to help

Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

Oh, one last thing I guess. This way it is adding punctuation to the end of a word in the list. Is there an easy way to strip that off ?

Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

Hrm.. also, it is capturing tons of stuff that is not in a room desc. Clantalk, Ordertalk, ANYTHING that happens.. That is decidedly odd to me. Perhaps I'll have to go back to finding the other way to do it. I have a feeling this would loop the crap out of me, since everything it sees gets added right back to the variable.

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:44 pm

yea, just run it through another replave for the punctiation

%replace(%replace(%line, " ", "|"), ",")

and so on

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:45 pm

well the trigger was named so you could toggle it on and off as needed

Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:41 pm

#ADDITEM only allows one instance of a given word to be in a variable, to use more you need to use %additem, i think that is the variable oddity at least.

also, i notice you have "'s" replaced twice.

Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

Oh, no, I definitely want #ADDITEM, no need to look at the same word twice. I do see the 's twice, guess I didn't notice it before. I was messing around with wanting to do ' and 's you know for plurality, but keep the word also with the S on the end, just in case. Didn't get it figured out yet, not sure if it is possible. Is there an easy way to make it all lowercase before the additem ? this way I won't have The and the, A and a. etc.

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:00 pm

just by making sure it strips out the 's first

Wanderer Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 93 Location: USA

So like redundancy. do 's, then ' ?

Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:11 pm

right, and run it all through %lower as well