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Novice Joined: 08 Nov 2000 Posts: 44 Location: Australia

Hiyas

I cant seem to capture the directions that are listed in each room
eg.
Exits: north south northeast northwest
Of course there could be less exits or more sometimes, and there could be up or down also. What i'd like to do is capture all the possible exits when i enter a room, and move in one of the valid directions at random. I was planning to use a #case %random to do this, but i cant seem to capture the directions to begin with :)

My second question is... how can i expand alias's regardless of where they appear in a sentance.... to convert mudslang to the full words, eg You say ' I'm busy atm, brt in a tick' to be sent as I'm busy at the moment, be right there in a tick

Tnx for your time

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

You could use something like:

#TRIGGER {^Exits: (*)$} {#VAR CurrentExits %replace("%1", " ", "|");#EXEC %item(@CurrentExits,%random(1, %numitems(@CurrentExits)))}

As for your second question,

#ONINPUT {(%*)} {#EXEC {%replace(%replace("%1", "atm", "at the moment"), "brt", "be right there")}}

should work (untested). For large numbers of things to expand, this method can quickly become unwieldy, however.

So something like this could be used (also untested):
#ONINPUT {(%*)} {#VAR CurrentCommand "%1";#VAR CurrentCommand %replace(@CurrentCommand, "atm", "at the moment");#VAR CurrentCommand %replace(@CurrentCommand, "brt", "be right there");#EXEC {@CurrentCommand}}

- Charbal

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

If you don't insist on limiting yourself to one trigger this becomes an easy problem.
#TR {Exits:} {#VAR exits %null}
#TR {Exits: (%w)} {#ADDITEM exits %1}
#TR {Exits: (%w) (%w)} {#ADDITEM exits %1;#ADDITEM exits %2}
#TR {Exits: (%w) (%w) (%w)} {#ADDITEM exits %1;#ADDITEM exits %2;#ADDITEM exits %3}
and so on, for however many exits you might expect to encounter.

Just make sure the trigger which clears the variable comes first, the order of the others won't matter since #ADDITEM doesn't create duplicate entries.

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