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Wanderer Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Posts: 85 Location: USA

I have a random color alias that works great, except that my mud counts the color coding as chars, so the lines tend to be shorter.

ex, I type:
colgos testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testing

| 1961H(100%) 1925M(99%) 1779V(100%) > gossip %C6t%B7e%B3s%C7t%C4i%B1n%B3g%C1 %C6t%C1e%B2s%C7t%C6i%C3n%B7g%B1 %C1t%B4e%C1s%B3t%C7i%C3n%B3g%C2 %B3t%C4e%B2s%B6t%C1i%B1n%C7g%B6 %B6t%C4e%C6s%C2t%C3i%C5n%C3g%B2 %C7t%B1e%C4s%C5t%C7i%C7n%C7g%C1 %B5t%B2e%B7s%C2t%B6i%C5n%B2g%C5 %B1t%B5e%B4s%B1t%C6i%C6n%C7g%B7 %C3t%B5e%B1s%B7t%B5i%C5n%C1g%C3 %B1t%B5e%B5s%B3t%B2i%B1n%C3g%C1

| 1961H(100%) 1925M(99%) 1779V(100%) > Line too long. Truncated to:
gossip %C6t%B7e%B3s%C7t%C4i%B1n%B3g%C1 %C6t%C1e%B2s%C7t%C6i%C3n%B7g%B1 %C1t%B4e%C1s%B3t%C7i%C3n%B3g%C2 %B3t%C4e%B2s%B6t%C1i%B1n%C7g%B6 %B6t%C4e%C6s%C2t%C3i%C5n%C3g%B2 %C7t%B1e%C4s%C5t%C7i%C7n%C7g%C1 %B5t%B2e%B7s%C2t%B6i%C5n%B2g%C5 %B1t%B5e%B4s%B1t%C6i%C
You gossip, 'testing testing testing testing testing testing testing testi%C'

How can I make a trigger to automatically gossip whatever didn't get sent in the first line, cut off in the line truncation

Edwub the Mage

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I would suggest you have your colgos alias split the line up. To give you something of an idea what a script for doing that could look like I am pasting one I wrote for something else a while ago.

#CLASS {TellSplitter}
#ALIAS LongTell {#IF (%len( @Teller)>80) {TellCounter=2;#WHILE (@TellCounter<=%numwords( @Teller)) {TellPart=%word( @Teller, 1);#WHILE (%len( @TellPart)<80) {TellPart=%concat( @TellPart, " ", %word( @Teller, @TellCounter));#ADD TellCounter 1};tell @TellPart}} { tell @Teller}}
#VAR Teller {} {}
#VAR TellCounter {0} {0}
#VAR TellPart {} {}
#CLASS 0

In your case you might want to figure the largest size (200 is probably close), then work backwards till you find a breaking character and put your split there.