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Wanderer Joined: 04 Aug 2001 Posts: 79 Location: USA

Pattern: &Name gives &Money coins to you.

Script: say Thank you @Name. Your @Money is appreciated.

Variable @Name shows: Phyre
Variable @Money shows: 1 platinum

Mud Shows: Thank you Phyre. Your 1platinum is appreciated.

Something odd or am I doing something wrong? I believe this worked in Zmud with 1 variable, but for now I use 2 variables for the number and the coin type.

Just thought i'd mention it.

Wizard Joined: 14 Aug 2004 Posts: 1269

As a workaround (untested), try putting "" around the space after @Money:

Script: say Thank you @Name. Your @Money" "is appreciated.

If CMUD is compressing the space, this should stop it, I think.

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:08 am

I found this obscure problem...

Auto-typed variables are a bit tricky. For zMUD compatibility, a Variable can actually contain a "function". So, CMUD needs to decide how to parse and compile a variable.

In the case where @Money has the value "1 platinum", CMUD thought that this was a function since it started with a number. The auto-detection for functions was a bit stupid. If it started with a letter, it was parsed as a string, but if it started with a number it was parsed as an expression.

As an expression, the space between the 1 and platinum is absorbed (because white space is supposed to be ignored in expressions).

I improved the smarts of the function detection so that it looks for more specific function syntax. If it sees a number (or floating point) at the beginning, then it scans past that to see what token comes after it. If it doesn't see a valid expression token, then it reparses the entire thing as a string instead of an expression.

This fixed the example that you gave and doesn't seem to have any side effects on my test scripts, so I'll cross my fingers that I haven't screwed anything up with existing user-defined functions.