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Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2007 7:41 pm

A small silver vial rests here.
A small silver vial rests here.
A small silver vial rests here.
A small silver vial rests here.
A small silver vial rests here.
The key to the Malaccan palace lies here.
On the ground is a little vial of healing magic.
A polished-blue breast plate sits alone here....It is in excellent condition.
A pair of blue arm plates lies here....It is in excellent condition.
A polished-blue breast plate sits alone here....It is in excellent condition.
A pair of dusty old rawhide leggings lay forgotten....It is in excellent condition.
A polished-blue breast plate sits alone here....It is in excellent condition.
On the ground is a little vial of healing magic.
On the ground is a little vial of healing magic.
On the ground is a little vial of healing magic.

Is there any way to gag it to where it will display like:
(4) On the ground is a little vial of healing magic?

Any help will be appricated!

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:30 pm

There's probably somethnigs that can be done but we'll need more information. A full room description including prompt would be needed at minimum.

Since all the the lines aren't guaranteed to be right after each other (as is the case with "On the ground is a little vial of healing magic.") Then it get's a little trickier.

Basically after you get your room description and exit line, you need to gag every line and place it in a record variable with a value of 1.
You increment the value each time you receive the line.

After you get your prompt you gag it and disable the trigger that was doing all the capturing, write out the lines the way you want and write the prompt again.

That's the high level approach. I hope that helps.

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:44 pm

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:51 pm

Tell you what, post a few full room descriptions, i.e. from prompt to prompt and we'll see what we can come up with. In the mean while look at the following commands and special variables.

#GAG, #ADDKEY, Predefined Variables, #TRIGGER and #SHOW.

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:54 pm

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:57 pm

EDIT: Ninja'd twice, but hopefully this is still relevant. Definitely pester your MUD admins to implement this themselves - surely they can see as well as anyone that that is simply horrific.

This script is almost certainly going to be more hassle than it's worth. Pester your MUD admins and get them to implement this kind of sorting on the server side.

If you're impatient, or if your MUD admins are dirty scoundrels, then solving this problem is going to be quite tricky. Expanding on Tech's idea of using a data record variable:

We really need an entire room description, preferably a few so we know how it looks. The basic principle will be that you'll have two triggers, one that says "This is where the items in the room begin" and one that says "This is where the items in the room end". Depending on the format of your room description, it might be a number of things, but it'll probably be the exit line to begin the items in the room and then your prompt to end the list of things in the room. You'll have two triggers for those:

#trig {Exit Line} {#t+ ItemCapture;RoomItems=""}
#trig {Prompt} {#t- ItemCapture}

These enable and disable the ItemCapture trigger that we'll be using to create a list of the items in the room. The first trigger also clears the list of things in the room, so that it's rebuilt from scratch. The capture trigger will look something like this:

#trig {(*)} {#if (%db(@RoomItems,"%1")) {#addkey RoomItems {%1} {%eval(%db(@RoomItems,%1)+1)}} {#addkey RoomItems {%1} 1};#gag}

What this does is check to see if we've already recorded the line that's been captured. If it's been seen before, it increments the counter for that line. If it hasn't, it creates a new counter for that line. It then gags the line.

Now that you've got a data record variable with a list of things in the room, you need to print out your own list of things in the room. You'd do this something like so:

#loopdb @RoomItems {#say (%val) %key}

Which will print out the value (the number of times the line was seen) in brackets, followed by the line itself.

Note that I haven't tested any of this code, and it's likely not to work. I give it to you purely to demonstrate in more detail the principles that Tech was describing.

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:08 pm

Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:22 pm

Thank you all for trying to help me, i have gotten so frustrated with this one i just will talk to the Admin to see if he will do the fixing on his end...Im moving on to another script...

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:33 pm

I finally got a chance to work on this for you. Copy this code into CMUD 2.13 and you will be all set.

It's a modification of the idea Fang post. They are issues with using the room name as keys, so this it's a little different but the basic idea is the same.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Cough, Tech, Cough, BAD!!
This is the zMUD forum and he is using zMUD!
Your cMUD script isn't going to help him all that much ;)

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:00 am

Doh!! Doh!! Doh!!

No matter how carefully I check I always seem to miss one once a month. Well I down coverted the code for zMUD. here it is.

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:08 pm

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:51 pm

Not sure what that is, but unless you have another trigger firing off of the output I don't know why that would happen. This code doesn't fire off on kills commands and doesn't even issue the look command. the must be something else at work. You try disabling the triggers to confirm this.