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Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

This is my hbhelp alias from zMUD

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

Apprentice Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 110

If trying the double quotes as suggested by Matt, change the double quotes in "orb - orbname" to single quotes or precede with ~, otherwise I think you may confuse the parser

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

What parser? In CMud, anything AT ALL in quotes means the parser never touches it. What you see inside the quotes is what gets printed to the screen, sent to the mud, written to a file, or whatever else you're doing with it.

Enchanter Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 605

First of all, look at your script in the Package Editor. Do you note some lines have non-black colored text? CMUD thinks that these are the lines containing not just a plain text to output. While CMUD can handle mixed text and numbers even if you not put the "" around that line, it can't handle the line with what it consider as operator. Here is the offending line:

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

Bah! I knew there was a reason I disliked turning 30. Crying or Very sad

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:27 pm

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Thanks everyone.
I actually saw something in the help files I missed that fixed this
I edited it so all the echos are done as per the example in the CMUD help files:
#ECHO {blah blah blah}

This should be added to the changes from zMUD IMHO, because with zMUD ANYTHING after #ECHO was automatically ignored except the functions (such as %eval() and such). At least it seemed that way. Was this one of the "should never have been that way" things from the zMUD parser that Zugg set out to correct maybe? Those "undocumented functionality" from the parser being too forgiving?

Anyways. As I said, thank you all.

Once Zugg makes a Finished Scripts section for CMUD I'll repost the CMUD version, which is still backwards compatible to zMUD YAY! Though you have to convert the xml to plain text for zMUD import, I keep my 7.21 zMUD around for doing all changes to each trigger in that as well then export from there. If anyone is interested, the 2.2 version IS posted in the Finished Scripts section for zMUD. :)

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:42 pm

Yes, this is one of those times when the zMUD parser was too forgiving. To compile your code properly, the parser needs to be able to tell in advance when you mean - to be a subtraction operation and when you mean it to be a string, for example. The easiest way to do that is to make you tell it which you mean rather than have it guess.

There's no finished scripts section deliberately because CMUD includes a package library. However, the forum has a few strengths over the package editor (not least of which is that the forums will email you when a thread is updated), so commence begging ;P

Enchanter Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 605

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:10 pm

In the latest beta version, you can embed a " quote within a quoted string by using two "" quotes. Just like in other programming languages. I do not think this worked properly in the 1.34 version. You shouldn't need to use %stripq. But in v2.13, the following works: