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Beginner Joined: 25 Feb 2002 Posts: 18 Location: USA

I am trying to capture a numeric variable, store it, divide it by 5, and store that. If i can just capture it,divide it, and then store it, that works as well. A sample of what i am trying to capture would be this:
"An item weighs 5, and Has a value of 10000"
i am trying to capture the value, divide by 5, and store that number in my status bar.
This is what i have so far
#TR {and Has a value of (%d)"} {#VAR itemvalue %1}
then i figured i could use #EVAL to do the dividing and capturing of the result, but when i use
#EVAL {@itemvalue/5}
it Does the math, and it immediately puts the result on the next line, before any more mud output. as such, i can not manage to capture it so i can use it as a second variable.

Can anyone give me any hints as to what i am doing wrong? Thank you very much in advance :)

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

#MATH twentypercent {@itemvalue/5}
#VAR twentypercent %eval(@itemvalue/5)

LightBulb
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SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Or if your always going to be dividing by 5...
#TR {and Has a value of (%d)~"} {#VAR itemvalue %eval(%1/5)}