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Caled
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Joined: 21 Oct 2000
Posts: 821
Location: Australia
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 Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2001 3:23 pm
Database variable, sorting
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There is a database variable, storing information concerning what elixir/salve type is in each vial. There are trigger to set this up, which work fine. The resultant variable looks something like what you would get if you entered this:
#ADDKEY elixlist{12325=health|34552=empty|34562=mending|3554=empty}
When this command is used:
#SHOWDB @elixlist
The following output is gotten:
12325: health
34552: empty
34562: mending
3554: empty
This is kinda nice. But I want it sorted so that all of the empties come one after the other, and all of the healths in a group, etc etc. I couldn't figure it from the help files
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Caled
Sorcerer
Joined: 21 Oct 2000
Posts: 821
Location: Australia
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2001 3:30 pm
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I should add that I dont wish to do it by having a #LOOPDB for each elixir-type. The reason is that there are around 35ish possible contents for the vials, and I'd rather not have to write 35 separate thingies if there is a #VIEW or #QUERY way of doing it in a single step.... 
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Muorshai
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Joined: 20 Jan 2002
Posts: 3
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2002 7:29 pm
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This may be a bit of a late reply, but I'll post it anyway. I may suggest that instead of a database, create a stringlist for each vial type (eg. health, mana, etc) and a stringlist for each type of vial. That way you can cycle through each vial type and the identifiers. (sorry I haven't got the code to post....I'll try to get back to it when I have my files available.
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Kjata
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Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 4379
Location: USA
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2002 11:21 pm
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Try using this alias to sort the items in the variable:
#ALIAS sortByValue {#VAR temp "";#LOOPDB @%1 {#ADDITEM temp %concat(%val, "=", %key)};#VAR temp %sort(@temp);#VAR %1 "";#FORALL @temp {#ADDKEY %1 %word(@temp, 2, "=") %word(@temp, 1, "=")};#UNVAR temp;#GAG}
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