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Newbie Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 9 Location: USA

I tried looking back several pages for a simular question, after that failed I figured I'd toss it out here.

I'm working on a 'vial' project, like many muds the one I play (Aetolia) lets you refill your healing vials. vials, usually, end up all looking the same only being distinguishable by vnums. (vial####)

To keep these sorted, I created two variables for each vial type. one @ehealth, @fhealth, etc (f=full, e=empty)

Now I'm creating a VIALS alias which will basically go through all the vials and echo the full/empty counts. Here is a snippet.

#if (@fhealth="") {full=0} {full=%numitems( @fhealth)}
#if (@ehealth="") {empty=0} {empty=%numitems( @ehealth)}
#ec Health - @full, @empty Empty.

The problem is that I'd have to have this for each vial-type, which would be very cluttered code. I have all the vial types (in this example, 'health' in a string-list called @viallist)

I was wondering if anyone could show me a way to render the above text using the %i from #forall. I've tried strange combinations of @f{%i}, etc, but they all seem to err.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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

Don't overcomplicate things. Just put both variable names in your list for each type of vial and use fhealth and ehealth (you know what they mean) instead of Health - #,# - Empty. You don't need the #IF, %numitems for a null variable is 0.
#VAR VialList {fhealth|ehealth}
#AL VIALS {#FORALL @VialList {#ECHO {%i ~= %numitems( @{%i})}}}

Untested.

LightBulb
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Newbie Joined: 09 Jan 2003 Posts: 9 Location: USA

Ahh, Thanks! With your help I've got it working now. =)

~Mimique

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