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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Is there a way to make a variable that can hold content, but only expand when needed?

Here's an example of what I want to do...

in my MUD, there's a command called "where", when you type "where" with no argument, it gives you a list of the visible players in the area. I want to make a trigger that gives me an alert whenever a certain player is in my "where" (which will be fire off as a timed trigger).

Here's the problem... the players I'm watching out for may be different all the time.

So I want to make it so I can have an alias where I enter information into the variable depending on what I need, so something like:

Warning: <player name>

but, because there may be more than one...

Warning: <player name>, <player name>, <player name>, ...

Then I can make a trigger to capture "where" which also needs to be expandable, then make an expression that compares each value against each value.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Yes, there is a way. All variables do exactly what you want, a string list would likely be the easiest way to do it. See the help for #ADDITEM and check out the related commands and functions.

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:26 pm

assuming you have a list made with who all is in your where.. manually change your warning list as needed like:

$warningList="name1|name2|ect"
#FORALL $whereList {#IF (%ismember(%i, $warningList)) {#ECHO {<color tomato>Warning!: </color>%i}}}

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Thanks, I assumed it might be that way. I'll look into it when I have some time.