Zugg Software :: View topic - Needing to convert comma delineated directions to semicolon delineated?

Beginner Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 10

Sorry for the vague subject ... that's the best I could come up with to describe the problem I'm facing...

I've presently got a list of directions i've compiled for a mud, but the directions were written out in long format..
i.e. w,w,w,w,n,n,w,w,w,w,s,s,s,s,s, etc ...

what i'm trying to do is find a quick and painless way to convert these to zMUD friendly semicolon delineated directions like 4w;2n;4w;5s ... the reason I've yet to do this by hand is quite a few of these directions involve going upwards of 20-40 times in a single direction.

Anybody familiar with a function built into zmud that might be able to do this? Or perhaps a utility somewhere that will do the conversion?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

You want to use %replace and %pathcompress. Asumming you have your path in variable 'x' it would look like this
x=%pathcompress(%replace(@x,",","|"))

Beginner Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 10

ok, right now i've got them set up as aliases ... so should i just convert the aliases to path's and then execute the script?
Which brings up the question, if the answer to the previous is yes, how do I convert/move the aliases over to become paths, short of just copy/pasting the directions for each set as a new path?

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:21 am

You can't actually copy and paste into a path because the direction "ne" looks like north, followed by east. The mapper uses hjkl to represent diagonal directions in patterns and Viji's script won't automatically change diagonals into hjkl. You'll need to do that yourself - just use the GUI to enter it yourself.

You could make something more complex using %replace to replace the diagonal directions with the proper letter, but it's probably more effort than it's worth unless you have tons of these aliases.

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

%pathcompress(%subregex(%subregex(%subregex(%subregex(%subregex(@X,"nw","h"),"ne","j"),"sw","k"),"se","l"),",","|"))