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Magician Joined: 17 Oct 2001 Posts: 371 Location: USA

Okay, I have a unique problem (don't we all, though?). I'm creating a combat script, and in my MUD you can type:
Assess combat

A faenrae reaver (1: nimbly balanced) who is flanking you at melee.
A wind hound (3: nimbly balanced) who is facing you at melee.
A rock troll (1: extremely unbalanced) who is behind you at missle range.

What I need is a way to pick up two values (the name of the critter attacking me), and that number inside the parenthesis. I then need to be able to group these two values together (only way I know of is the database), and parse that text for the combat script.

The difficulty I'm facing is that I need to update this text everytime I get the line;
The (whatever) begins to advance on you!

However, to prevent multiple records of each mob being recorded, I have to clear the database of all the previous records before I can accept the new data. How precisely should I delete all the records in a database?

Database Name: Critters
Fields:
1) Name
2) Number

Also, if anyone has ANY suggestions on how to deal with this WITHOUT resorting to the database, PLEASE offer them. I'm new to zMUD programming, so PLEASE help!

Belmyrddyn

GURU Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 556 Location: USA

Rather than place this information in the actual database, use a database variable (aka record variable).




#TRIGGER {(*) ~((%d): *~) who is {flanking|facing|behind} you at {melee|missile range}.} {


   #ADDKEY critters "%1" %2


   }


#TRIGGER {The * begins to advance on you!} {


   #VAR critters %null


   assess combat


   }

The keys in the @critters record variable will be the names; the corresponding values will be the number present.

Troubadour