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fattony
Apprentice
Joined: 27 Dec 2001
Posts: 105
Location: USA
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 Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 8:32 pm
Removing Brackets
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I have a file that I need to read in to zMUD using the #file command. The beginning of each line of that file has brackets containing text that I need to remove before showing the lines in zMUD. File looks like this:
[name of quest] Name of quest
[name of quest] Instructions
[name of quest] Instructions
I'd like it to display like:
Name of quest
Instructions
Instructions
There can be any number of lines for each quest entry, and I've already removed all other [] brackets and replaced them with parenthesis.
This is what I have so far:
#ALIAS quest
#FILE 2 script_quests.txt
#TYPE 2 "[name of quest]"
#FORALL @quest_matches {?}
#CLOSE 2
But I can't figure out how to strip off the []'s and the text between them.
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MattLofton
GURU
Joined: 23 Dec 2000
Posts: 4834
Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 9:41 pm
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You'll need to figure out how to loop through the file, but you can then use this line in the loop:
%replace(%read(2),"[name of quest] ", "")
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Thunderbuster
Novice
Joined: 07 Nov 2001
Posts: 45
Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 11:22 am
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Since Zmud doesn't have a %mid function try this
quest = [name of quest]
#MATH namelen %len(@quest)-1
quest = %left(@quest,namelen)
#MATH namelen %len(@quest)-1
quest = %right(@quest,namelen)
This will trim off any leading and ending character.
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Kjata
GURU
Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 4379
Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2002 12:44 pm
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Instead of using #TYPE, try using %grep. %grep returns a stringlist with all the lines that match some text. Example:
#ALIAS quest {#FILE 2 script_quests.txt;#FORALL %grep(2, "^~[name of quest~]") {#SAY %copy(%i, %pos(%i, "]") + 2, %len(%i) - %pos(%i, "]") + 3)};#CLOSE 2}
Notice that %grep accepts a pattern. This is the reason why ^ can be used to match the beginning fo a line and why the brackets need to have the quote character before them.
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