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Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 4 Location: USA

Is there a way to convert a string captured from a trigger to ascii without assigning it to a variable?

#TR {(*)} {Here I want to convert %1 to ascii before assigning it to a variable}

The reason I'm doing this is because there are special characters in the string and if I assign it to a variable it comes out all garbled... Thanks

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 656 Location: USA

I think what you really want to do is replace any special character with some other character or with nothing.

Take a look at the %replace function

%replace(%1,"-"," ")

that will replace "-" with a space

Also

What are the special char that are not working and how are you assigning it to a variable.
#var string "%1"
This will assign everything in %1 into string without parsing it.
#var string %1
This will parse through zmud.

Newbie Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 4 Location: USA

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I didn't state the problem clear enough... I'm on a chinese mud, it's a 2bit language, and for some reason zmud seems to parse some of the characters. I don't have a list of the characters, so I was thinking of converting the whole string into ascii.
One of the main problem causing characters is "¿", is it a special character in zmud? If there's no general way of doing this, I guess I'll just make a list of problem characters and add more as I find them then... Thanks

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

zMUD does not have support for multi-byte languages. For this reason, your triggers won't be able to do much with the text received from the MUD because the two bytes per character will confuse it.