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Beginner Joined: 19 Nov 2003 Posts: 16 Location: USA

I decided to make a new topic as what I'm asking seems to be fairly complicated from my perspective. I play on an IRE game (Achaea, Imperian, etc.) if that helps any.

I want to be able to restock my shop easier by typing 'wares' where it displays the information below.

Shop Output

satchel49889: a sunny yellow hunter's satchel 2 400gp
socks152560: a pair of sky blue socks 2 400gp
blanket194902: a soft blanket of forest green 1 700gp

Since the blanket has only 1 item, I want to be able to take that information and put it into a variable that will tell me to 'sew pattern249343' because pattern249343 is the pattern for the blanket. This probably means I have to already have a variable that has a list of all my pattern items.

"pattern10234" a pattern for a sunny yellow hunter's satchel
"pattern118104" a pattern for a pair of sky blue socks
"pattern249343" a pattern for a soft blanket of forest green

After sewing the pattern, I have to price the item but the item has its own unique item number again like the example below.

"blanket3124" a soft blanket of forest green

To price this blanket at 700, I have to use the command 'price blanket3124 700.' However, I also want to have a presaved variable of the price for each item as well. So another database variable that has 'a sunny yellow hunter's satchel' priced at 700.

I'm a little lost at where to even begin, let alone actually making it work so any help is appreciated. If there's a forum post I didn't see that's similar to what I want to do, then that will help too. Thanks again.
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Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Well, you could use a database variable with string lists as the values.

a sunny yellow hunter's satchel=pattern10234|400|2|2
a pair of sky blue socks=pattern118104|400|2|2
a soft blanket of forest green=pattern249343|700|1|2

This amounts to a database variable you can name it anything. Let's call it ShopDB.

Key=pattern|price|stock level|max stock level

So to get the pattern for "a sunny yellow hunter's satchel".

#show %item(%db(@ShopDB,"a sunny yellow hunter's satchel"),1)

I don't have time to look it up but there are several posts about string lists inside of database variables. One or two of them by me.