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Beginner Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 18

Pehaps I haven't figured out the syntax, but this is what i'm attempting to do:

I have several variables that are setup as data records, to collect racial attributes.
My currrent script will collect and update the data records as I want, and I can display the data.
However, I would like to sort the display in a better order.

This is the current variable:
#VAR halfling_race {Energy-20Mental41Poison19 Water-40 Bash55 } {_nodef} "RACEINFO|RacialVulns"

And this is the current alias to access/display the data:
#IF (@playerrace = "Halfling") {
#LOOPDB @halfling_race {#IF (%val < 0) {#SHOW @playername Vuln:%key "=" %val}}
#LOOPDB @halfling_race {#IF (%val > 0) {#SHOW @playername Resist:%key "=" %val}}
#class Racecheck 0
}

The output looks like this:
player Vuln : Energy = -20
player Vuln : Water = -40
player Resist: Mental = 41
player Resist: Poison = 19
player Resist: Bash = 55

What I would *like* to do, is somehow sort each output so that each racial resist is in decreasing order, and each racial vuln is in increasing order.

I've looked at the #SORT and %sort options, but I haven't been able to use either to get any desirable output. It could be syntax problems on my part.

I'd like the outputs to look more like:
player Vuln : Water = -40
player Vuln : Energy = -20
player Resist: Bash = 55
player Resist: Mental = 41
player Resist: Poison = 19

or even more ideally:
player Vuln : Water = -40, Energy = -20 <-----in increasing order
player Resist: Bash = 55, Mental = 41, Poison = 19 <-----in decreasing order

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated, or even suggestions into the help files that I mave have overlooked.

Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:56 pm

#sort is a CMUD command. Is this a question about CMUD or zMUD?

You won't be able to get the two halves sorted in different orders using a single variable with the #sort command. You'll have to make your own sorter - the easiest way to do that would probably be to build a reverse table and a string list of the values, sort the string list and then pull the keys from the reverse table. Sort of like this:

#loopdb @halfling_race {#additem values %val;#addkey tempreverse %val %key}
#forall %sort(@values) {#if (%i > 0) {#say Resist: %db(@tempreverse,%i) = %i}
#forall %sort(@values) {#if (%i < 0) {#say Vuln: %db(@tempreverse,%i) = %i}

This assumes that the values are unique, though - if they're not always unique, you'll need to handle that situation somehow.

Beginner Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 18

yeah, this is for Zmud... but the %sort and #SORT both come up in zmud help files.

I think I see what you have on your script. Let me try tinkering and see what happens with that.
Thanks!!