Zugg Software :: View topic - Storing multiline output with commas to a string list

Beginner Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 22

Hi all... after two hours of hair-pulling, I am turning to the experts for help.

My MUD outputs the following text to tell you whom you have previously met. I would like to store these names into a stringlist with the names as separate entries to utilize them in other ways.

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:24 pm

Hmm... How about this?

#var NameList ""

#trig {These are the people you remember:} {#t+ NameCap;#var NameList ""}
#cond {Your brain can handle * more names.} {#t- NameCap}

#trig "NameCap" {^(*)$} {#additem NameList %replace(%replace(%1,",")," ","|")}

I had to use two separate %replace functions instead of a since %replace(%1,", ","|") because at the end of the line, the comma might not be followed by a space and you won't want that comma replacing with a pipe anyway. You might want to add a %trim around %1 as well if there's an extra space at the end of the line that's being converted into a pipe and giving you two pipes in a row with no value between.

Beginner Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 22

Thank you for the help. Your code looks similar to my efforts as well, and it appears the commas in the lists of names are creating problems with the parsing. Using your code, it starts by capturing the "These are the people you remember" line and parsing it into These|are|the (etc.) as the first strings in the variable.

I was able to bypass that by skipping the first line in the trigger, but even when I do that, the trigger captures only up the the first name in each line (something to do with the commas). So, in the example above, it is only capturing two strings into the variable (Joe|Jim). After it hits the first comma in each line it stops.

I attempted to bypass this as well by using quotes around the %1, as follows:

replace( %replace( "%1", ","), " ", "|")

When I do this, however, the entire line is stored as the first string in the stringlist, example:

item 1) Joe|Sally|Bob|Nate
item 2) Jim|George|Jason

Also note there is no extra space at the end of the string lists.

Any further ideas would be much appreciated! If there is more information you need to work it out, please let me know.

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:57 pm

Strange, that's worked when I've tried it in other applications. That's quite vexing. The other thing you could try is using %match or %regex with a pattern of (%w), or (\w+), and then saving the results.

Beginner Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 22

I suppose it is somewhat comforting that I wasn't missing anything overly simple, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating. Confused

Thanks for your continued help. Here is some more information that maybe will help someone figure out what might be going wrong in the code. Instead of worrying about the triggered text for now, I am just focusing on adding information to the variables to make sure that part is happening correctly (and it is not).

Using this:

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:37 pm

Well, one simple workaround you could use is something like this:

#trig "NameCap" {^(*)$} {#forall %replace(%replace(%1,",")," ","|") {#additem NameList %i}}

Not very neat, but it should work.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Beginner Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 22

Beginner Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 22

Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:19 pm

I was still in CMUD mode - zMud likes it better if you surround your %1 in quotes if it contains spaces.

As for Arminas' example, simply remove the first #var line. The second line should successfully append the new line to the variable.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Lol, OUCH! I was trying to show you the concept, not suggesting that you place the code as is within the trigger. Here is what you want.

Beginner Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 22

Arminas, thank you for the update. I grasped what you were pointing at before, but obviously not completely. I now see what you are trying to do, and the updated code did the trick.

Thanks to you both for haning through me with this! I've yet to find a way to stump the group here, and thought I might have found the question that was going to do it today. I'll have to keep trying. Laughing

Fang Xianfu, thanks for your help as well. Much appreciated.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Beginner Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 22

Sorry about that, my Zmud went a little haywire on me the first time and when I quit out of it and started anew with the code you posted it worked like a charm. Again, the assistance is very very much appreciated. Thanks again for the help!