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Beginner Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 14

Using zmud 7.13b and windows XP, I created a variable which contains an eq item name including ansi. I need to delete part of the item name but can't figure out a way to do it when ansi is included in the whole equation. The variable value w/ansi codes looks like this:

%e[1;30man orb of %e[1;33mdancing %e[1;37mmoonlight%e[0m (%e[34mmagic%e[0m) (%e[1;37milluminating%e[0m)

I want to remove the (%e[34mmagic%e[0m) and (%e[1;37milluminating%e[0m) from the variable but need help! It seems like I should be able to just use the %remove command, something like

#VAR temp %remove( %e[0m~(%e[34mmagic%e[0m~), %1)

but it doesn't work. What am I missing?? I know my questions might seem fairly simple because I am really just cracking the surface of all this scripting stuff but I would appreciate any help I can get :-)

Beginner Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 27

I've never used the %remove command before, but it seems to me that what you're trying to strip out are the object's "flags", (magic), and (illuminating). So I would simply be inclined to strip out anything and everything that's blocked by parentheses. That might be something like: #VAR temp %remove( ~(*~), %1 ). Not sure, though. I'd have to play with it.

GURU Joined: 28 Sep 2000 Posts: 434 Location: USA

Surround the arguments to %remove in quotes. If there are never any parenthesis in the first part of the string, you can strip them out by using a mix of %left and %pos.

Beginner Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 14

Oh wow....tried using %left and %pos and it worked beautifully and painlessly. What an ingenious idea! Thank you very much!!

Beginner Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: UK

I've been following this post with some interest and trying to work out what is fully meant...
zmudnoob, could you please post a corrected and now working variable, just so I can get the full picture.

Beginner Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 14

I hestitate to post any of my scripts because I really don't know what I'm doing and am learning by taking other people's scripts apart and reading reading reading help files :-P But this is what I created from Carabas' suggestion. There are surely much cleaner ways to do it which I will learn as I go but this did exactly what I wanted it to do:

#VAR flagbegin %pos( "(","%1")
#IF (@flagbegin > 0) {
#ADD flagbegin -2
#VAR dbitem.AnsiName %left( %1, @flagbegin)
} {#VAR dbitem.AnsiName { %replace( "%1", " ", " ")}}

In essence this took the name of an item that had flags of any sort ((magic) (glowing) etc) at the end and just grabbed everything up until it hit the first parenthesis to put in my dbitem.ansiname variable. Without the ansi code, it would have been an easy thing but somehow the ansi code was not responding well to %remove. %pos and %left worked like a charm!

Beginner Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 17 Location: UK

thanks that makes it much easier to comprehend.