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Apprentice Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 103 Location: USA

I am looking for a way to take a line and be able to do multiple adds from it.

So lets say this is the line

Person wants to buy: tumor, kidney, liver, ovary
#additem selling "%1|%2|%3|%4"

But this needs to work no matter how many items they give me.. So lets say they do this
Person wants to buy: tumor
#additem selling "tumor"

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Hmm, I'd do it like this.

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:53 pm

I dunno, I'd stay away from %subregex for something this simple. Your trigger is spot on, but you need to replace the spaces as well - I'd do it with the whole code of the trigger being #forall %subchar(%1,", ","|") {#additem selling %1}, which looks pretty awful but hopefully makes more sense when you see it highlighted in the package editor.

Apprentice Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 103 Location: USA

Hrmm.. never could get this code to work, but I also needed to give more information.. so figured I'd try again..

Person tells you, "Buy: tumor, kidney, liver, ovary."
#additem selling "%1|%2|%3|%4"

Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 3:06 am

First of all, you couldn't do the "%1|%2|%3|%4" simply because it's quoting the %'s instead of putting it in literal. This works:

#TRIGGER {Person tells you, "Buy:(*)."} {#FORALL %subregex(%1,", ","|") {#ADDITEM selling %i}}

This has been tested and hasn't failed yet. If it doesn't work for you, please do a debug so we can see where it's failing for you.

Charneus

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

How about

#TRIGGER {Person tells you, "Buy:(*)."} {selling = %concat(@selling, "|", %subchar(%1,", ","|")}

Although that does depend on the pattern of text you're getting, there's quite a lot of difference between "Person wants to buy: blah" and "Person tells you, "Buy: blah."".

Apprentice Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 103 Location: USA

hrmm.. had someone try to use a different divider.. What if they use | instead of ,

basically

Person tells you, "Buy: tumor | kidney | liver | ovary."

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Well, with pipe it's even easier then, you just have to trim the spaces and pipes remain for the string list.

#trigger {Person tells you, ~"Buy: (*)~.~"} {selling=%replace(%subchar(%1,",;:-_","")," ","|")}

I'm pretty sure the above works although I haven't tested it. Subchar takes care of all the stuff you don't want and replace function
replaces spaces with pipes for the string list.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

You probably don't want to replace spaces with pipes, because if there are spaces on either side of the punctuation, you end up with extra pipes.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

I wondered about it a bit and while below code is definitely hokey, it does the job on removing the non-needed spaces and
eventually formatting the whole thing to a string list.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

I am a little bit unclear about your use of the "selling" variable. How else is it referenced? What happens if you receive 2 tells in rapid succession? What do you want to actually happen?

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

I think extra pipes would be preferable, you can then either replace \|\|+ with | or you can just remove all empty items from the list.

Apprentice Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 103 Location: USA

The selling variables takes what all they are wanting to buy.. Like lets say 100 livers... It then checks for the item in a price list.. multiplies it by the right number.. Basically.. I use it to give a price cost