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Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Bah, don't know if I can do this, but is it possible to use %mapquery to capture a portion of a roomname in a variable? I'm trying to strip characters off the end of room names in one, convenient command.

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:47 pm

I've never used mapquery for this, but even if you did, you'd still need to iterate over the results, so why not do it the old-fashioned way? If you mean to strip periods in room names:

#loop %numrooms {#call %roomname(%roomvnum(%i),%subchar(%roomvnum(%i),"."))}

will do the trick. You can do other things with %pos and the %left and %right (and %leftback and %rightback) functions.

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Did you mean to put "" at the end of that %subchar?

Never mind that, it isn't working in both forms.

hmm, could it be that you are passing a list of room vnums to %subchar and not the actual name? So maybe this instead?

#loop %numrooms {#call %roomname(%roomvnum(%i),%subchar(%roomname(%roomvnum(%i)),".",""))}

Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:11 am

Characters that aren't specified are deleted, so I didn't specify any.

Besides that, yes, what you have is what I meant. Sorry, I didn't copy the %roomname function as well.

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Hmm, would having this looping through 53000+ rooms make things seem like it was shutting down?

Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:42 am

Yes, probably. Enter it on the command line and then press Shift+Esc to have CMUD run the script in its own thread. If it's in an alias or something, add the #wait command with no parameters to the start.

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Yeah, it just needed some time. Could've sworn the first time I ran through it that it sat for a much longer time. Maybe I was just impatient.