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Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2

Hey

So.. I don't know a whole lot about zMud scripting, just basic aliases and triggers and whatnot. I want to replace characters in a string so that when I say 'Hello' it says, 'Herro' or when it sees AK it replaces them with a Y.

say Hello. -> you say, 'Herro.'
say Break. -> you say, 'Bray.'

could I get some help? heh

Apprentice Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 134 Location: USA

hmmm either youe jokeing, or can did not read any of the posts. some one asked the same question not long ago.... check out the post on Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:42 pm.

Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2

Thats almost helpful, thanks.

Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

From looking at the scattered contents of these forums, I was able to locate:
#AL lisp {%replace( "%-1", s, ss)}

...which supposedly replaces s with ss. My experience with zmud coding is somewhat rusty,
but I tried:

#alias lisp {{%replace( "%-1", l, r)}{%replace("%-1", L, R)}{%replace("%-1", ak, y)}{%replace("%-1", Ak, Y)}}

...to replace l's with r's, L's with R's, ak's with y's and Ak's with Y's. Output resulted in:

{herro}{hello}{hello}{hello}

...which is somewhat successful, but disheartening. I know I've mangled the parsing horrifically, so if someone
could tell me where I went wrong?

And no, I'm not 'jokeing'.

Novice Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 48 Location: aka Falan

Lightbulb answered that question in the same post you quoted:
http://www.emobius.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=16114&highlight=lisp
Here's a quote of his parsing for multiple %replace:

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

Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

#alias lisp {%replace( %replace( %replace( %replace("%-1", Ak, ak, L, l), Y, y, R, r)} apparently generated no output. Sorry, SCORNME.

Novice Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 48 Location: aka Falan

Looks like I forgot a couple things. How about this?

#alias lisp {%replace( %replace( %replace( %replace("%-1", Ak, ak, L, l), Y, y, R, r)))}

Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

Still no output, scorn...but I recently redownloaded zmud and figured out something similar that does work.

Step 1: Type
#alias lisp %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( "%-1", l, r), L, R), ak, y), Ak, Y), AK, Y)
Step 2: Open Aliases Window
Step 3: insert the word 'say ' (without the 's, with the space) before the first instance of %replace in the value box, resulting in 'say lisp %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( "%-1", l, r), L, R), ak, y), Ak, Y), AK, Y)'

Output:

lisp break BREAK breAk ak AK Ak HELLO hello L l = You say 'brey BREY breY y Y Y HERRO herro R r'

I'm sure there's a way to do this with one step, but that's the only way I was able to get it to work, thus its absence from the completed scripts page.

Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

Question 2:

Is there some sort of symbol that I can susbstitute for a space in the values box? It seems to automatically compact the code, so, for example, if I want " of " to convert automatically to " o' ", it will ignore the specified spaces and replace all instances of the letters "of" inside words (i.e., often= o'ten; blorofsnat=bloro'snat). Likewise, replacing letters at the start of a sentence (i.e., h to ') will ignore my attempts to specify the necessity of a space before said letter, and proceed to replace all instances of that letter wherever they appear in a sentence.

Novice Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 48 Location: aka Falan

Well, I suppose it didn't work because we didn't include your MUD's command to say.

#AL lisp {SAY %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( "%-1", Ak, ak, L, l), Y, y, R, r)))}

Edited: removed extra %replace and ().

Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

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will try above

Novice Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 48 Location: aka Falan

Sorry, zwimmey. I was editing my previous entry while you were replying! I had copied your #AL which has 5 instances of %replace, but mine only has 4 strings. If my edited post doesn't work, then I'm at my wit's end until I can get to my home comp.

Newbie Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

results pending

Novice Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 48 Location: aka Falan

Found this link to a version by Acaila and Lightbulb for replacing words. I suppose it could be modified for your purpose.

#AL lisp {
#VAR Temp "%-1"
#VAR Temp %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( "%-1", Ak, ak, L, l), Y, y, R, r)))
~say @Temp}