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Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 121

Not sure if this is truly a bug or not but doesn't make sense to me.

If you use the %string() and if there is a hyphen, the end result is a 0.

So, if you did the following you will see what I mean.

#show %string(jim-bob)

Displays: "0"

So, a bug?

I'm also using Zmud 6.62.

Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 103

Try encasing your string constant in quotes. Why you would need to use %string for constant strings is beyond me, though. For variables, no quoting is necessary.

Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 121

%String(jim-bob) was just an example, my script doesn't use constants to do this but instead does the following:

#VARIABLE VTemp %word( %concat( %string( %1), ","), 1, ",")

Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 103

quote:
Originally posted by Oracle
#VARIABLE VTemp %word( %concat( %string( %1), ","), 1, ",")

uh-huh

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

All the string function does is internally apply a set of quotes to its parameter. In the case of what you want to do it is better to simply type the quotes there. Also the %word function returns everything up to the delimeter character for word 1, and between delimeters for other words. End of string is forced as a delimeter so your variable assignment can be simplified to:
#VAR VTemp %word("%1",1,",")

Also of note the %word function applies quotes internally to its return value which provides a proper marker for the #VARIABLE command to understand that it is all one parameter.

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Even better would be to change your pattern wildcards so that %1 picks up the information you're interested in without need for additional manipulation.

Novice Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 34

If you're trying to match words with hyphens, you might try using %x in the trigger pattern instead of %w. %x will match any amount of non-white space, so it won't be stopped at the -.

Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 121

quote:
Originally posted by LightBulb

Even better would be to change your pattern wildcards so that %1 picks up the information you're interested in without need for additional manipulation.

Do you have an example of this?

I read if you put the paramenter is brackets {} this would change the input to a string. Is this what you mean?

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Since you haven't given us the slightest clue to what MUD output you're trying to match, no I don't have an example.

Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 121

Not a problem, I used Vijilante's suggestion and it worked fine.