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Wanderer Joined: 23 Apr 2010 Posts: 53

Okay, some of the more advanced CMud users will laugh at me for this one. I'm trying to count the number of occurences of the word "and" in the following string:

You join Steve and Mary and Mark and Frank and John in a threnody ritual.

What I want to build is a counter that shows me how many people are already in the ritual (to which I will increment when additional people join in until we reach enough people to complete the ritual.)

Like I said, this should be an easy one to solve, but I'm wracking my brain trying to find it. Suggestions?

Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 149

%eval(%numwords("<string>"," and ")-1) should give you the number of times 'and' occurs in the string, or 0 if it doesn't appear.

#SAY %eval(%numwords("You join Steve and Mary and Mark and Frank and John in a threnody ritual."," and ")-1)
returns 4.

Be sure to have spaces around the 'and' or the count will include other words which contain 'and', like someone named Moander, for instance.

Wanderer Joined: 23 Apr 2010 Posts: 53

Worked perfectly, Drax. Thanks for the help. I knew someone could answer this one easily. I'm still learning the ropes with CMud. Just switched over after Portal went under. I promise, I'll be back with more questions ;)

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

You don't actually need %eval there. Just use parentheses:
(%numwords("You join Steve and Mary and Mark and Frank and John in a threnody ritual."," and ")-1)