Zugg Software :: View topic - How to pop a list name acquired from a pattern

Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2010 Posts: 119

Hey guys, slight problem again Rolling Eyes

My trigger pattern is: (%w) tells you 'hello'.

Now what i was to do is bring up a first message that is stored in "%1hello" stringlist, to tell %1 that message and remove it from the list, so what i try to do is:

tell %1 %pop(%1hello). However this doesnt work and neither does %pop(@{%1hello}) or any other bracket combination that i have tried to come up with.

What is the proper way to do this?

Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2010 Posts: 119

I tested this for about an hour and while #show does show a proper line being captured, i.e::

zugg tells you 'hello'
#show %1hello shows zugghello and #show (@%1hello) shows @zugghello and while @zugghello stringlist contains test as its first line, %pop(@%1hello) does not bring the test line.

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 6:58 pm

Is your string list variable actually called %1hello? if so that's the % sign is the problem change the variable name so it doesn't start with % and it should work. Or are you using %1hello to represent a variable called zugghello if zugg sent you a tell?

Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2010 Posts: 119

Im using %1hello to represent a variable called zugghello if zugg sends me a tell. And zugghello is the stringlist that i am trying to %pop.

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 7:46 pm

Try this.

Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2010 Posts: 119

Ok thanks Fizgard, managed to figure it out, again not exactly what i wanted but it does manage to work.

Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2010 Posts: 119

Hmm, actually it doesnt work, too tired to figure it out now, will try tomorow.

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 9:38 pm

This may or may not work better, if the first example wasn't exactly what you were looking for.

Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:36 pm

You can't have @popstringlist(@StringlistVarName) by itself, Fizgar.

You'll need to put #CALL in front of it. :P

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:25 am

I know you need to use #call with some of functions that start with %. I hardly ever use #call with my user created functions though. Reguardless the above works just fine without it.

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:57 am

#DELN is deleting the first value same as %pop does, the current code is gonna eat through your list of hellos without replacing anything.

Assuming you do in fact want the hello list to loop around, try this instead:

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 1:00 am

That is incorrect Shalimar as %pop isn't deleting the item from the list when used in the function for some reason.

**Edit**
What Shalimar just posted, is probably a little faster than my last example due there being less calls maybe? Anrok specified in his first post he wanted the items removed from the list after they are sent in a tell (at least that's how I read it), so you could remove the loop portion increasing speed a bit more probably. I did this and it worked fine till you reach the last item which remains in the list, so he would probably want something to remove the last item once it is sent too.

Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2010 Posts: 119

Thanks guys, i have incorporated Fizgars first example into my script now and it works just as i would expect %pop(@%1list) to work if it would, except that when i pop $stringlist which contains "@%1list" it doesnt pop the actual list, so #deln @%1list 1 is required to delete the first line from the real "@%1 list"..

Thanks again for all the help, there's just no chance i would've figured that out on my own!

Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2010 Posts: 119

Hmm, not going to start another topic as this is of lesser importance, but can anyone please tell me if its possible to retrieve the largest or smallest value from either a stringlist or a database variable ? Im guessing %dbmax and %dbmin arent applicable to database variables and stringlists ?
So basically if i have a database of 3 keys with values : a=5 b =6 and c = 4, is it possible for CMUD to show either C or B as smallest/largest values ?

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:40 pm

Here's something you can play around with. if you type getmax followed by the name of a variable (without the @), that has it's type set as either a stringlist or db record, the alias will return the maximum value in either the stringlist or db record. if your dbvar above with the values of a=5|b=6|c=4 was named test, and you typed getmax test the alias would print to the screen, Item #2 in the dbvar has the highest value: b = 6.

Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2010 Posts: 119

Great stuff! Now why cant this be a built-in cmud function ? : (

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:32 pm

The %dbmin and %dbmax are part of the Database Module and don't actually work with normal variables...they only work with tables/views in the database module.

However, the normal %min and %max functions *do* work with normal database variables and return the smallest and largest value in a list or db variable. For example:

#SHOW %min(@test)

would show 4 in your example above. If you want to display the key value, you can use this:

#SHOW %dbkey(@test, %isvalue( @test, %min(@test)))

and it will show "c".

Apprentice Joined: 19 Nov 2010 Posts: 119

awesome Zugg, thanks!