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GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

I can't seem to wrap myself around this problem, but is it possible to find a pattern in a given string and then replace that pattern with something else?

I'm specificly looking to replace any instance of ordinal numbers with "" so that:

1st ork|2nd ork|1st ork-ra

will become:

ork|ork|ork-ra

There are only 4 ordinal tags (st, nd, rd, and th), so replacing them is no problem but there can be up to 50 NPCs of a given type and I'd rather not have 14 different %replace() functions.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

GURU Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 556 Location: USA

Sadly one can't use wildcards in functions. This clunky function might serve:




#FUNCTION strip_ords {%right(%1, %if(%pos("1st ", %1), %eval(%pos("1st ", %1)+3), %if(%pos("2nd ", %1), %eval(%pos("2nd ", %1)+3), %if(%pos("3rd ", %1), %eval(%pos("3rd ", %1)+3), %if(%pos("th ", %1), %eval(%pos("th ", %1)+2), 1)))))}

As an exercise, I've left it to you to double check if I have enough parentheses.

If the only space in the item separates its ordinal position from its name, you could use:




#FUNCTION strip_ords {%right(%1, %pos(" ", %1))}

Troubadour

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

quote:

#FUNCTION strip_ords {%right(%1, %pos(" ", %1))}

heh, I knew it was simple enough

It's amazing what one forgets at 12 midnight...

Thanks, Troubadour

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD