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Newbie Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 9

Hi, on the mud I play there are several different languages, and I wanted to make a zmud trigger that translated from one to another.
The language base is simple, one character maps onto another.
For example, in Kzin:
evwxiyzbocdfghujklmnapqrst maps onto abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz... so I made a trigger to translate... it looked like this:

#TR {^(%w) tells you '(*)', in Kzin.} {#ECHO %1 is trying to say %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %lower( %remove( ,, %2)), t, Z), s, Y), r, X), q, W), p, V), a, U), n, T), m, S), l, R), k, Q), j, P), u, O), h, N), g, M), f, L), d, K), c, J), o, I), b, H), z, G), y, F), i, E), x, D), w, C), v, B), e, A)}

Now the problem I'm having is with commas. In theory, you shouldn't have to remove the commas, they shouldn't mess stuff up... but in practice it cuts off the string after the first comma. So I set it to remove the commas.... but it still doesn't work.

I'd appreciate any help you can give me!

Thanks

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

Try surrounding the %2 in double quotes.

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 9

I tried surrounding %2 in " ", in ' ', and leaving it without quotes. I also tried the same for that comma...no luck.

I think that its a bug in Zmud, but I'm not sure.

Newbie Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 9

I also tried using %replace instead of %remove (since %remove only does the first occurance, but %replace doesn't work well with commas)

Newbie Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 9

I sort of found a workaround.... if I use %concat it will remove the commas, solving the problem...only problem is if a person uses more than nine commas in a line (since concat only works to 9 parameters)...

Guess I'll do some more testing, and may file a bug report.

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

You could try %quote, don't know if it will work.

quote:
In theory, you shouldn't have to remove the commas, they shouldn't mess stuff up

Actually, zMUD functions use commas to delimit fields, so in theory they will mess stuff up.

LightBulb
Vague questions get vague answers

Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2001 Posts: 59 Location: Germany

Without the remove, but WITH doublequotes it works fine for me:
#TRIGGER {^(%w) tells you '(*)', in Kzin.} {#ECHO %1 is trying to say %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %replace( %lower( "%2"), t, Z), s, Y), r, X), q, W), p, V), a, U), n, T), m, S), l, R), k, Q), j, P), u, O), h, N), g, M), f, L), d, K), c, J), o, I), b, H), z, G), y, F), i, E), x, D), w, C), v, B), e, A)}

Now
#SH "abc tells you 'evwxi, yzbo, cdf, gh ,, ujk, lmnapqrst', in Kzin."
outputs
abc is trying to say ABCDE, FGHI, JKL, MN ,, OPQ, RSTUVWXYZ
which looks ok to me.

If you're using the current beta version you can shorten it to:
#TRIGGER {^(%w) tells you '(*)', in Kzin.} {#ECHO %1 is trying to say %subchar( %lower( "%2"), "evwxiyzbocdfghujklmnapqrst", "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")}

PS.
Why do you think %concat() accepts only 9 parameters?
I've tried
#SH %concat(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E)
with result:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789ABCDE

Adept Joined: 29 Oct 2001 Posts: 250

quote:

PS.
Why do you think %concat() accepts only 9 parameters?
I've tried
#SH %concat(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k,l,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E)
with result:
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789ABCDE

Thats what it says in the help file.They really need updating

Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2001 Posts: 59 Location: Germany

Help files?
Never heard of such a thing!

Novice Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Canada

Well i might be a little late on this one, but here is a script for you to use. Note that the special chars won't work (like ;, @, etc) you can add other chars to the language codes, like other punctuation, but if they are the same in all, then make it in the same position in all... this script will work good because all you have to do is define a variable with the key, following the alphabet variable format and it will decypher:

#trigger {(%w) tells you '(*)' in (%w)} {#var whotold {%1};#var phrase {%2};#var language {@%3};translate;#say @whotold told me @translated in %3}
#alias {translate} {#var translated " ";#var alphabet "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,.! :";#var Kzin "evwxiyzbocdfghujklmnapqrst,.! :";#var other "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm,.! :";#var phrase {%lower( @phrase)};#var phraselen {%len( @phrase)};#var templen 1;#while (@templen < (@phraselen+1)) { #var findit {%copy( @phrase, ((@templen)), 1)}; #var letpos {%pos( @findit, @language)}; #var translated {@translated%copy( @alphabet, @letpos, 1)}; #add templen 1};#var translated {%trimleft( @translated)}}

Hope this helps you, sorry im late but i just subscribed to this forum!

Novice Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Canada

Note that the above has two languages, Kzin and Other. you can put in all that you wish, just follow the same pattern