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ilhares
Newbie
Joined: 29 Apr 2011
Posts: 6
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 Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:06 pm
Variable string assistance required (space compression)
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I am willing to acnkowledge I may just be an idiot, but I've searched all over and not found this same problem yet. The MUD where I spend most of my time has a number of public 'radio frequency' channels. For one character in particular, I keep their radio set to scan the full spectrum most of the time, only changing it when they need to broadcast. For simplicity, I turned this into an alias with variable use.
The problem I am encountering is that the text, as typed, is not being correctly broadcast - namely, it is being stripped of extra spacing between words. I may be in the minority, but I and several other players come from the school of typing where you double-space it after periods. Once the text gets loaded into the variable, it loses this. Is there some flag somewhere I can set to prevent this? It isn't just following the periods, it's any irregular spacing that gets removed so far.
Alias: "BR"
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#VA radmes {%0}
radio center @freq
broad @radmes
rs |
If the radio is centered ahead of time and I type "broad This ·········· place needs ·········· WORK!", it will broadcast "This ·········· place needs ·········· WORK!". Using the alias, @radmes contains "This place needs WORK!"
Help, insight, criticism?
(edited to hardcode spacing in, it seems this forum ALSO condenses the extra spaces) |
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MattLofton
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Joined: 23 Dec 2000
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Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 10:19 pm
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I assume you use the alias like so:
br blah blah blah
This is natural, but it also causes CMud to ignore extra spacing just like HTML. The only way to prevent this is by using quotes. |
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DraxDrax
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Joined: 22 Mar 2009
Posts: 149
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:52 pm
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If you make an 'oninput' type trigger that recognizes user input beginning with br, instead of making 'br' an alias, it will maintain any irregular spacing you might use.
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<cmud>
<trigger type="Command Input" priority="5000">
<pattern>^br (*)$</pattern>
<value>radmes = %1
radio center @freq
broad @radmes
rs</value>
</trigger>
</cmud> |
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ilhares
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Joined: 29 Apr 2011
Posts: 6
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 3:19 am
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DraxDrax, thank you. I'm not accustom to punching them in via the XML, but once I figured out where my head was and pulled it out, this worked perfectly.
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DraxDrax
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Joined: 22 Mar 2009
Posts: 149
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:23 pm
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No problem. Glad I could help!
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