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Newbie Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 5

I'm curious as to how to do this - I realise using %sort helps, but the situation I have is as follows...

I'll have two string lists - Names and health. What I want to do is pick the name with the lowest health (Or preferably lowest 3), so that I can direct attacks at them.

I can't figure out how to have the names list rearrange at the same time as the numbers. Is there a way to do this?

Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:16 pm

A much easier way would be to use a data record variable with the names as keys and the healths as values (or the other way round, it doesn't make much difference). Then you just do this:

#local $lowest $lowestname
#loopdb @NamesAndHealth {#if (%val<$lowest) {$lowest=%val;$lowestname=%key}}
#var lowestname $lowestname

If you're using health as keys (if it's a large database you might find constructing a reverse database and doing it this way is faster)

#local $lowest
#loopdb @HealthsAndNames {#if (%key<$lowest) {$lowest=%key}}
#var lowestname @{HealthsAndNames.$lowest}

Newbie Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 5

Will try that :) Stormhammer with this should be fun.

EDIT: Oh, then how do I get the lowest.. 3? :p

Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:20 pm

Added something above, just in case you missed it. And the only problem will be tracking everyone's health - I assume you have a passive ability to do that? I'd hate to think of the mana drain with assessing everyone every round :|

Newbie Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 5

I have 669 mana, which translates to... 7359 achaean/aetolian, I think. And it's a one off this - It'll trueassess every enemy/target in the room, then I'm hoping to have it stormhammer the lowest 3.

EDIT: Ok. That's just returning the last value looked at... Ooer.

EDIT2: Found a way to do this - Save the health/names as you suggested in a database record, but also save the health values in a standard list. Use %sort on the standard list, then use %ismember(%val, @sortedlist) to find the ranking of the person in terms of health.

Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 173

UNTESTED CODE (and not optomized for CMUD)

Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 173

lag caused a double post, sorry

Beginner Joined: 19 Dec 2001 Posts: 17 Location: USA

Here is a solution if you still want to use two stringlists, one containing names and the other containing the names hitpoints. The following should do the trick:
Example StringLists:
#VAR groupnames {Blix|Emre|Odef|Thanora}
#VAR grouphps {359|436|376|434}