Saving commas in strings

HoudiniMan · #1 03-03-2003, 05:48 PM

Pretty self-explanatory...

Say you had a chat system and had a string representing a message that would be displayed. If you wanted a way to set the string so that if you typed a message with a comma it would save as a comma inside the string, how would you do it?

Jeff · #2 03-03-2003, 06:12 PM

Just like any other string

HoudiniMan · #3 03-03-2003, 06:13 PM

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Originally posted by Jeff
Just like any other string

You can't honestly think that helped any.

Jeff · #4 03-03-2003, 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by HoudiniMan

You can't honestly think that helped any.

Okay then. You'd probably use setstring.

Neoreno · #5 03-03-2003, 06:17 PM

Try putting quotes around it.

HoudiniMan · #6 03-03-2003, 07:03 PM

I'll try quotations i suppose

Jeff · #7 03-03-2003, 09:11 PM

If you are using string arrays, then I'd suggest a preprocessor to remove or replace commas.

osrs · #8 03-03-2003, 10:54 PM

I don't understand what you mean,but addstring wouldn't help?
if there is a string like 'client.chatmsg',would work. ^_^'

Dach · #9 03-04-2003, 12:18 AM

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Originally posted by osrs
I don't understand what you mean,but addstring wouldn't help?
if there is a string like 'client.chatmsg',would work. ^_^'

your post befuzzles me, are you talking about #c?

Knuckles · #10 03-04-2003, 12:54 AM

Quotation marks should work.

osrs · #11 03-04-2003, 01:28 AM

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Originally posted by Dach

your post befuzzles me, are you talking about #c?

like,you make a system to display the text ,then you use addstring to add a message into the system.

something like this..

NPC Code:



if(playerenters){

addstring client.chatmsg,Welcome to my level #n;

}

But i don't know what exactly he needs..

PrinceDark · #12 03-04-2003, 02:05 AM

I did a npc before that stores messages once. I used
#T(#e(startindex,length,str)) for a part of it.
You could try that and I believe it will keep the commas there.

Jeff · #13 03-04-2003, 05:36 AM

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Originally posted by Kaimetsu
As I understand it, the problem is not in getting the commas into the string; it's more an issue of getting #I to interpret the string array properly. Or maybe Graal's crazy about commas in other contexts too, I dunno.

As I said, a replacement-based preprocessor to substitute an ampersand, a semicolon, a period, or any other non-comma symbol.

PrinceDark · #14 03-04-2003, 06:49 AM

I checked my npc and yeah what it did for the string list is when I had the strings set like setstring stringname,#T(#e(startindex,length,str)); it took all the words that the player chats and surrounds them with quotation marks. So in the other parts that had addstring and so on it did the same.

So in the flag list it would show
client.text="Anyways, blah blah blah","and, if blah blah blah"

There wasn't a need for adding the quotations since it automatically did it. Hope that helps you out with whatever you're working on.