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Beginner Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 17

Okay, I'm working with a string list called "people" which I am using to hold the names of all PCs and NPCs in a room. I'd like to be able to display this data on my status window. The variable contains:

Praetorian Elite Axeman|Praetorian Elite Halberdier|Praetorian Elite Halberdier|Praetorian Elite Swordsman|Praetorian Elite Axeman

#forall @people {#show %ansi(hi,red)%i%cr} gives me exactly what I want:

Praetorian Elite Axeman
Praetorian Elite Halberdier
Praetorian Elite Halberdier
Praetorian Elite Swordsman
Praetorian Elite Axeman

However, putting this into the status window (as I'm sure you know) ends up with something garbled since the status window doesn't print well. My work around is using the following:

%ansi( hi, red) @people.1
%ansi( hi, red) @people.2
%ansi( hi, red) @people.3
%ansi( hi, red) @people.4
%ansi( hi, red) @people.5

Unfortunately, this is limited in scope. Am I missing something or is the status window just not able to handle what I want?

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

#loop 1,%numitems(@people) {#addi new " %ansi(hi,red)%item(@people,%i)"}
#stw {%replace(@new,"|","")}

this was a simple fix I made for you and deminstrates the popwer of the status window.

Oh don't forget to add this to you trigger: new=""
you have to clear it everytime I also cleared the @people the same way.

Beginner Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 17

Thanks, that certainly gives me something powerful to work with. I'm already seeing the usefulness of %replace. If I want to, for instance, make sure I have one name to a line, what change would that require? I know doing #stw {%replace(@new,"|","%cr")} is useless (it just prints %cr after each entry).

Enchanter Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 627 Location: USA

You could simply resize the window so it looked like they where on seperate lines.

In the example I gave it should alrready put each item of the variable on a new line

Beginner Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 17

Ah, I figured it out. The addition of a %cr to the #loop 1,%numitems(@people) {#addi new " %ansi(hi,red)%item(@people,%i)"} function fixed it. Ie:

#loop 1,%numitems(@people) {#addi new " %ansi(hi,red)%item(@people,%i)%cr"}

Thanks again.