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DefinNormal
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Joined: 24 May 2012
Posts: 12
Location: United States
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 Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 12:16 am
iskey and dbkey confusion.
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So, I'm trying to use a database for curing. The keys are the affliction, and the cure for each (in this case) is stored in the 'Cure' value.
For the affliction 'ablaze', it's: Cure="mending"|Location="torso"
The problem I am having, unless I misunderstand the use of these commands, is that the location of each key in the database is not being returned correctly.
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#SHOW %iskey(Salve,ablaze)
#SHOW %dbkey(Salve,16)
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iskey returns 16, so ablaze should be the 16th key in the database.
When I use dbkey to see the 16th key in the database, it's returning 'smashed_throat' - which is in fact the 16th key in the database.
Any ideas on why iskey isn't returning the correct location in the database?
If it helps.. but the issue is that %iskey is not returning the correct record number.
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#FU SalveAff {#IF (@SalveCheck()) {#IF (%max(@Pre) > 15) {#LOOPDB @Pre {#IF (%max(@Pre) = %val) {ASALVE restoration to %replace(%key,"_"," ");#EXIT}}} {$pri="";$aff="";#FORALL @CSalve {#ADDI $pri %iskey(@Salve,%i)};$aff=%dbkey(@Salve,%min($pri));#IF (@Salve.$aff.Location = skin) {ASalve @Salve.$aff.Cure} {ASalve @Salve.$aff.Cure to @Salve.$aff.Location;#PRINT {$aff}}}}}
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DefinNormal
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Joined: 24 May 2012
Posts: 12
Location: United States
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 1:52 am
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Okay, I closed cMUD and re-opened it, and ablaze is now value 16. However, I do not have any type of sorting on this database variable. Is it possible to prevent it from auto-sorting?
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MattLofton
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Joined: 23 Dec 2000
Posts: 4834
Location: USA
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Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 3:38 am
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The way datarecord variables are stored internally means there's no way to ensure the order of key-value pairs. You can enforce a temporary sort order via %sort(), but that's going to change just often enough that you can't rely on it.
If you need to ensure position, convert to stringlists instead. |
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