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Pogi
Newbie
Joined: 04 Aug 2008
Posts: 9
Location: Washington
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 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:42 pm
Help please. Problem with %random
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Hi everyone. I'm hoping someone can help me with this issue, and I'll try to word it as clear as possible.
(This problem doesn't exist in ZMUD btw)
For one of the MUDS I play I run some XP scripts in a high mob density area. It has 6 different mobs in it and I'm triggered to kill each mob upon successful killing of the previous one. Once there is no more the message "They aren't here" occurs. My trigger for that looks like this.
<trigger priority="5660" id="566">
<pattern>They aren't here</pattern>
<value>par%random(1,6)</value>
</trigger>
It looks different in ZMUD as there is no XML, but I'm hoping you guys are familiar with how triggers look in both.
Now the purpose of this trig is that I have 6 aliases. Par1 through Par6. Each one is set to a different mob along with our travel skill.
Par1 Alias equals
swoop (travel command) dove
kill dove
The other aliases are for the other mobs. However the problem with this in CMUD is that it sends to the mud Par 1 with a space. Makes the alias not work. I have no clue how to fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
P.S. If I need to provide more information please let me know. |
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charneus
Wizard
Joined: 19 Jun 2005
Posts: 1876
Location: California
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Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:26 pm
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Change it to #EXEC {%concat("par",%random(1,6)} for your value.
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Pogi
Newbie
Joined: 04 Aug 2008
Posts: 9
Location: Washington
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:06 pm
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I tried that but it didn't work. I got his error message
[They aren't here-> #EXEC {%concat("par",%random(1,6)} ]
ERROR: Trigger "They aren't here" fired but did not compile
Any more ideas please? |
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Toxic
Adept
Joined: 27 May 2008
Posts: 299
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:15 pm
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not sure why it wouldnt work...
I did this from the command line...
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#ALIAS par1 {#SAY Test Worked}
#EXEC {%concat("par",%random(1,1))}
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This worked...
Oh I see your problem, your missing the closing ) for your concat...
it should be
#EXEC {%concat("par",%random(1,6))} |
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charneus
Wizard
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Posts: 1876
Location: California
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:16 pm
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That was my fault. I forgot to close out the concat.
Sorry!
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Toxic
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:41 pm
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Good job Charn... geez... Im throwing away all your code I have, it could be buggy :(
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Pogi
Newbie
Joined: 04 Aug 2008
Posts: 9
Location: Washington
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 8:46 pm
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Awesome it worked thanks! now can you explain real quick please on what it means exactly.. I mean what makes this different I'm not familiar with concat and exec. Thanks again!
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charneus
Wizard
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Posts: 1876
Location: California
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:28 am
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Well, concat means "put these items together, exactly as it is." So, if I wanted to make the following sentence:
This is a sentence.
I could do %concat("this ","is ","a ","sentence.")
Of course, that's a silly example, but hopefully you see what it does. In your situation, it takes a random number between 1 and 6 and affixes it to par, so it becomes par1 through par6.
Exec is short for "execute," and basically, it's function in your script is to execute the alias after the concat has put it together.
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