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Novice Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 31

Is there any way to search a class of list variables for information, and collect the variable names into another list?

For example, say I have a class of nothing but this:
#VAR A {a}
#VAR B {a|b}
#VAR C {a|b|c}
#VAR D {a|b|c|d}
#VAR E {a|b|c|d|e}
#VAR F {a|b|c|d|e|f}

Is there some alias I can construct to search all those variables (though there is over 100) for, say the letter d? Then when it finds one with that member, it will add it to a variable called result?
Then result will contain {D|E|F} ?

Any help would be appreciated.

-Darkmere

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

If you are absolutely 100% certain of all the variables in that class folder, then you can just put the names in a giant stringlist and loop through them. You can then reference each variable in turn so you can examine the contents.

If you are not always sure about the variable names in the folder, there's nothing you can do.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

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

Well, if you don't know the name of all the variables in the class, you can get the names, but it requires using COM. Here is an alias that puts the name of all variables in the specified class into a stringlist named @varList:
#ALIAS getVarsInClass {#VARIABLE varList "";#LOOP 0,%eval( %session.NumVars - 1) {#IF (%session.VarNum(%i).ClassName = "%1") {#ADDITEM varList %session.VarNum(%i).Name}}}

Just pass the name of the class as an argument to the alias. Example:
getVarsInClass myClass

Kjata

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

As long as your already running a loop on the variables you might as well just test the value.

#ALIAS SearchVarsInClass {#VARIABLE varList "";#LOOP 0,%eval( %session.NumVars - 1) {#IF (%session.VarNum(%i).ClassName = "%1") {#IF (%ismember("%-2",%session.VarNum(%i).Value) {#ADDITEM varList %session.VarNum(%i).Name}}}}

Now it take a first argument of class and the rest as the search value. Example:
SearchVarsInClass myclass look for this

Remember the comparisons used are case-sensitive.

Novice Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 31

Vijilante, you have the exact idea I'm looking for. The only problem is, when I try to put your script in, or the one above yours, I get the same syntax error :

...{#IF (%session.VarNum(%i).ClassName = "%1")...

It points the the ( before the %i

Am I missing something, or is there a prefrence to change for it to work?

-Darkmere

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Hrm, I thought that syntax checker problem was fixed back in 6.60. Anyway you can ignore the syntax error.

Beginner Joined: 03 Jun 2003 Posts: 25

Hmm, why not use %array Then just check them tends to be easier. Unless you have different reasons to use variables.
Arrays tend to be less memory use and faster to check them or use them (once opened).

Novice Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 31

Could you perhaps expand on your idea, Death? The previous code works perfect for my version, but I have a friend on 6.16 that would like to use the same basic idea : But it doesnt seem to work on his.

Perhaps you could give an example of how %array would work

-Darkmere