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Magician Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 358 Location: USA

I'm trying to create a window that will display the time and weather a la eScape. The information is contained in a 10-digit decimal string. As far as I can tell, the first 4 (5?)digits dictate where the sun is in the sky, the next 3 (2?) digits tell the time of day, and the final 3 digits dictate the current weather. My current problem is seperating those digits into 3 different variables to work with.

In short, how do I take a 10-digit string and split it into 3 seperate strings?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

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I'm trying to create a window that will display the time and weather a la eScape. The information is contained in a 10-digit decimal string. As far as I can tell, the first 4 (5?)digits dictate where the sun is in the sky, the next 3 (2?) digits tell the time of day, and the final 3 digits dictate the current weather. My current problem is seperating those digits into 3 different variables to work with.

In short, how do I take a 10-digit string and split it into 3 seperate strings?

How do you get the string? If you get sent a simple line of text, you can use &# to specify a fixed-length pattern of characters to match where # = some number (ie, &4).

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Magician Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 358 Location: USA

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I'm trying to create a window that will display the time and weather a la eScape. The information is contained in a 10-digit decimal string. As far as I can tell, the first 4 (5?)digits dictate where the sun is in the sky, the next 3 (2?) digits tell the time of day, and the final 3 digits dictate the current weather. My current problem is seperating those digits into 3 different variables to work with.

In short, how do I take a 10-digit string and split it into 3 seperate strings?

How do you get the string? If you get sent a simple line of text, you can use &# to specify a fixed-length pattern of characters to match where # = some number (ie, &4).

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

I have a first trigger to recognize that the %gsl(w) has changed, which simply echos %gsl(w), which includes some MXP tags, one of which is the 10-digit string. The second trigger matches the gsl code, and extrapolates the 10-digit string and saves it as the variable @weathercode.

Tell me a bit more how this &# works. I can't find it in the docs.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Is in the help entry named Pattern Matching. You should be able to reach it easily from Introduction to Triggers.

If you can't get that to work, you might also want to look into %copy. This function returns a portion of a string starting at a specified character and retriving a specified amount of characters.

Kjata

Magician Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 358 Location: USA

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you might also want to look into %copy. This function returns a portion of a string starting at a specified character and retriving a specified amount of characters.

Kjata

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.