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Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:33 pm

My current mud gives experience using commas as delimiters, so if I have 3200 exp to level it shows up as 3,200. I want to make an experience counter so I need to capture 3,200 as a number, but can't figure out how to do so. I'm using the following triggers:

#trigger {^Experience Needed &ExpTNL}

#trigger {^You gained &ExpGained}

What I want to do is have the second trigger subtract ExpGained from ExpTNL each time I kill a mob, but these triggers store the values as a strings and not numbers. I tried using %number() to convert it but that function won't work if there is a comma in the string.

Any help on this appreciated.

Wizard Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 1368

Say we have 3,200 in %1 then we do:
ExpTNL = %replace("%1", ",", "")

Example:
#trigger {^Experience Needed (*)} {
ExpTNL = %replace("%1", ",", "")
}

Hope this helps!

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

Use %n. It could be that you still need to extract the comma, but I'm fairly certain you don't need to.

Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:32 pm

Thanks, Rorso, that did the trick nicely. I always figure there's a way to do whatever I want in zmud, the trick is to figure out what the syntax is. :)

Matt, I'll try what you said as well when I get a chance.