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Wanderer Joined: 11 Mar 2002 Posts: 93

what I amtrying to do is set up a trigger that will take the roomname
and convert it to what I need

the room name would appear as this
A Black Hallway.

I want to convert it to a variable that would look like
(A Black Hallway)

brackets around.. and period at the end.

then I can use that variable in triggers I need.

Is there a way to do this?

Novice Joined: 22 Feb 2002 Posts: 48 Location: Latvia

You have to find something that is common to all rooms.
For example
Ir Room looks like
A Black Hole [east, west]

Then we set up a trigger on
^(*)~[

to do
#var roomname ~(%1~)

Which would make roomname
(A Black Hole)

Otherwise there is no way, unless you want to map every room in your mud and then
use the names.

Wanderer Joined: 11 Mar 2002 Posts: 93

*chuckles*
Well.. I have almost every room in the mud mapped

What I am trying to accomplish
is an alias that takes %roomname
and makes it a variable
then take that variable and remove the . and add brackets

Having all the rooms mapped or not should be regardless as its
taking the room I am in which is of course mapped and in the mapper
so capturing the %roomname is easy

if it can't be done then I will have to find another way.. or if I could even get it to just strip the . I could probably work around it

Wanderer Joined: 11 Mar 2002 Posts: 93

Actually I solved it quite easily after a few cups of caffiene and looking through some helpfiles.
for anyone that may want to know in the future this is
how I did it

#VAR roomname %roomname
#VAR roomnames %remove( ., @roomname)

it doesnt put the brackets but it -does- strip the . and that makes what I wanted to do doable.

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

You could probably even shorten that to one step.
#VAR roomname %remove( ., {%roomname})

%remove will remove the first period in the string, which might not always be at the end. This might be a better (but more complicated) solution. It includes %trim to remove leading and trailing spaces and has delimiters to avoid possible problems with embedded commas.
#IF %ends( %trim( {%roomname}), .) {#VAR roomname %leftback( %trim( {%roomname}), 1)}