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Newbie Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 2

Being a stats nerd I want to keep track of mobs killed.

Its easy enough to stick mob names in a string after each kill:

#TRIG ^(*) is dead! R.I.P.
#VAR total_kills_name %additem( %1 %2 %3 , @total_kills_name)

Which gives me: {a minotaur guard|a minotaur guard|a stirge}

My ultimate goal is to count the occurences of each kill, so I get
a modified list to send in tells or #show.

#show a minotaur guard 2
#show a stirge

How can I do this? is there a easier way than a string list?

Thanks!

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

You might want to consider:

countlist

Syntax: [blue]%countlist[/blue](list)

Count the number of times each item appears in a string list and return a database record with the items as key properties, and the count of each item as the value of the key.
Examples:

#VAR ToDo {kill orc|kill goblin|kill orc}
#VAR ToDo %countlist(@ToDo)
#LOOPDB @ToDo {#SHOW %key %val}

displays:

kill orc 2
kill goblin 1

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 105

An alias would work
So you can keep counting with your list I have to make a separate list, I just picked ShowKillsList

#alias Showkills {#var ShowKillsList {%expanddb( %countlist( @total_kills_name), |, ",")};#forall @ShowKillsList {#show %i}}

This will count the list, put it in the ShowKillsList Variable, then show each entry in the list.
This also leaves your Variable @total_kills_name unchanged, so you can keep adding to it.

And if you want them alphabetized also it would be this instead.
#alias Showkills {#var ShowKillsList {%expanddb( %countlist( %sort(@total_kills_name)), |, ",")};#forall @ShowKillsList {#show %i}}

Credit to LightBulb who helped me with this:
http://forums.zuggsoft.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=17501

which was basically the same thing

Might be overcomplicated for what you want though

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

I'd recommend just using a record variable, so the count for each name is already figured. If you want to include your existing counts, use the %countlist function to create the variable.
#VAR total_kills_name %countlist( @total_kills_name)
#TR {^(*) is dead! R.I.P.} {#ADDK total_kills_name {%1} {%eval( %db( @total_kills_name, "%1") + 1)}}

Display or tell can easily be done with the %expanddb function.
#SHOW %expanddb( @total_kills_name)