Zugg Software :: View topic - Ugly Parenthesis and |s in my Variable, PLEASE HELP.

Beginner Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 11

Alright, this is a group break down trigger that goes through all the classes, which are listed in @breakclasslist, and adds (# of a certain class) (class name) [(names of groupies who belong to that particular class)] without the parenthesis obviously.. the only problem I have with it is that when I add color codes (on the mud I'm playing currently (AVATAR mud) colors codes are designated by using |br|, |r|, and |bk| like you see in my trigger) parenthesis are added to the beginning and end of each "item" in the variable and also a | is placed between each of these "item"s. Delitem won't delete them. I know everything else works fine though because I tried it without the colors codes and it worked out just the way I wanted it to minus the part about the |s being displayed inbetween the different "item"s.

#forall @breakclasslist {#if @%{i}numb>0 {#VAR report %additem( |br| @%{i}numb |r|@%{i}prop |bk|"["@%{i}list"]", @report)}}
gt @report

SAMPLE REPORT: You tell the group '( 1 Cleric [Cenor])|( 1 Warrior [Boaba])'

Of course the color didn't show up, but you can see how the parenthesis and |s show up. I just need to find a way to delete those before I tell the group the @report.

Please respond even if you think you can only help out a little.

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

I don't know if this will actually fix your problem, but use quotes or brackets of some kind--heck, for complete control you should just use %concat() to build your string. You might try using the quote character (~) with your color codes to see if that fixes the problem. If that doesn't work, you'll have to use 3 %replace() functions.

The problem you're seeing is that ZMud is interpreting the string you want to add via %additem() as a stringlist itself. A stringlist contained within another stringlist is called a nested stringlist, and these are denoted with surrounding parentheses (if not, then the items are confused as part of the original stringlist):