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Wanderer Joined: 22 Oct 2000 Posts: 90 Location: Sweden

Greetings and salutations!
Simple question... I have an alias, in which you define a variable...

aliasname pref1,pref2,pref3,pref4

where pref4 is the name of the variable to use. However, I have not been able to access the variable in question... #VA name @pref4 works, so @name stores the name of the variable (say, "the_true_variable"). But,

%numitems(@name)

as well as

%numitems(@@name)

returns 1, but

%numitems(@the_true_variable)

returns 57, the number of items stored in @the_true_variable.
So, what I have is @name, which has "the_true_variable" stored, and @the_true_variable, which has 57 items stored in a working string list, but I cannot access @the_true_variable using @name it seems... There must be some syntax that I am missing out on, here... Sorry for bothering again, but some aid would be appreciated...

"May the Force be with you"
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GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

@{@varName}

Kjata

Wanderer Joined: 22 Oct 2000 Posts: 90 Location: Sweden

Domo arigato gozaimashita. I wonder what we "low-level" users would do without the constant aid of the gurus... probably tearing our hair trying to find what we want in the help files or simply give up.

Now all I have to do is find out why I cant use

#loopdb {@RoomColors} {#NOOP %roomcol(%key,%val)}

to reset the colors of the rooms on the map... *sigh*

I already mentioned it, but I guess it won't hurt to do it again...

#loopdb {@RoomColors} {#NOOP %roomcol(%key,%val)}

does nothing, while

#loopdb {@RoomColors} {#SHOW Room - %key, color - %val)}


returns





Room - 566, color - 32768)


Room - 565, color - 32768)


Room - 564, color - 32768)


Room - 563, color - 32768)


Room - 562, color - 32768)


etc... 





And manually doing 





#NOOP %roomcol(566,32768)





Sets the room to the correct color. I have also tried 








#loopdb {@RoomColors} {#NOOP %roomcol(%int(%key),%int(%val))}





as I know zMUD stored all variables as strings before, I dunno if it still does...








"May the Force be with you"


[url]peeweesweden@bredband.net[/url]

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

I didn't answer to this problem on your other topic because I don't want to provide you with a post that really doesn't help you at all. However, some quick testing revealed that I have no such problem:
#VAR roomColors ""
#ADDKEY roomColors {123=6754|234=6742|432=7732}
#LOOPDB {@roomColors} {#SH %int(%key)}

correctly outputs:
123
234
432

I've tried other functions in place of %int too. I thought that perhaps the problem was that the mapper wasn't changing the room colors as fast as the loop was executing, but you seem to have the problem with other non-mapper functions too. So, I don't know what to say except... it works fine for me.

Kjata

Wanderer Joined: 22 Oct 2000 Posts: 90 Location: Sweden

Ok, now I am freaking out... I tried that exact code, and I got

0
0
0

returned... *BOGGLE*

"May the Force be with you"
[url]peeweesweden@bredband.net[/url]

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

What Kjata got on all my running betas:
1.x mhz W2K zMud 6.34, 233mhz W98se zMud 6.32, 233mhz W98se zMud 6.34

Ton Diening

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Try e-mailing Zugg. Not sure how much he can help if he can't reproduce it too, but he might have some idea about what causes this.

Kjata