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Wanderer Joined: 03 Aug 2004 Posts: 79

This is probably a silly question, but after hours of reading I still cant find an answer so here goes.
I'm just trying to access information inside the fields of a record variable.
I create a record from a trigger using:
#ADDKEY chess@chessnum {rmname=%roomname}
#ADDKEY chess@chessnum {rmnum=%roomnum}
#ADDKEY chess@chessnum {boardnum=@chessnum}
This creates the chess##### record just fine, I can see all the correct information stored inside.
Where I seem to have hit a brick wall is trying to assign the information to another variable.
tempvar = chess####,chessnum: I need to pull chessnum out of one of the records and send it to a variable I can call upon with an alias.
or if I could just use the info inside the record that would be fine too
something like:
telepathic move @chessnum is the command i need sent to the mud.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Use dot-notation, but as that might not actually work you might instead have to use the %db() function:

var = @datarecord.key
var = %db(@datarecord,key)

The reason I say dot-notation might not work is that in some cases the parser will fully expand the toplevel variable reference and then append the .key to that expanded value. The %db() function does not have this issue, and in fact you can use complex or even illegal variable/key names (for example, you could reference a variable with a space in its name.)