Strings

[SaijinGohan]

Ok I have been working diligently to create a Mailbox system for the Bravo Online playerhouses. I have EVERYTHING working great. But there is one thing I have come across which I knew would be a problem. So heres what I have come up with:
Suppose I have a message 30 characters long. Now lets say graal can only hold 10 per line in a say2. I can get how many lines I need by dividing 30 by 10. I get 3. Right? Right. Now this paragraph is in a string. How am I going to get a #b after every 10 characters for every line until maxlines (3) - 1. The last part is to keep an extra #b after the last line in a message.

If this were a variable I could do it, but I do not operate well with strings. Anyone have an idea?

[Kaimetsu]

Just loop through and insert them in before say2-ing it. I'm pretty sure that works now.

[Goboom]

Originally posted by Kaimetsu
Just loop through and insert them in before say2-ing it. I'm pretty sure that works now.

If he listens to you and does it this way I am going to beat him like the red-headed step child he is. I already told him to do it this way.

[SaijinGohan]

so I gotta work with the strings before hand.


so

NPC Code:

---

setstring thiso.umessage,blahblahblahblah;

this.chars = strlen(thiso.umessage);

this.loops = int(this.chars/10);

for (a=0;a<this.loops;a++) {

 //insert #b stuff here?

}

---

I think this is how it should go but the problem is getting the #b into the string. I've been looking around and trying several different things but I can only think of setting a new string for every 10 chars. Inefficient I think.

[Dach]

all in one string? use #e(startindex,length,string) for the previous part of the string being examined, and another for the end, then setstring string,#s(partstr1) #b #s(partstr2)

Ah, the power of strings...


[Edit] Note: my syntax is probably wrong

[Kaimetsu]

v3 provides a few new options for this kind of thing, but currently #e is probably your best bet.

[adam]

couldn't he use wraptext?

or am I missing something.

[Kaimetsu]

Originally posted by adam
am I missing something.

Yes.

[SaijinGohan]

Ok so I'll just #e the token and add #b where needed. Thx!

[adam]

Originally posted by Kaimetsu


Yes.

Why isn't

NPC Code:

---

// NPC made by Rogue Shadow



if (playertouchsme) {

  wraptext 25,,#c;

  setstring temp,;

  for (i=0;i<tokenscount;i++)setstring temp,#s(temp)#t(i)#b;

  say2 #s(temp)#b;

}

---

What he is looking for? This way it won't break up words?

[SaijinGohan]

Wow thats working but its not breaking it up. That #b causes every word to be on a new line. I dunno if its something faulty withe code or what but perhaps because I am running the script serverside? Its a class.

[adam]

Originally posted by SaijinGohan
Wow thats working but its not breaking it up. That #b causes every word to be on a new line. I dunno if its something faulty withe code or what but perhaps because I am running the script serverside? Its a class.

what is causing every word to be on a new lline? Show some code?

[Dach]

he copy and pasted, that's bad

[SaijinGohan]

Well since my other post disappeared. -.-

NPC Code:

---

for (i=0;i<tokenscount;i++)setstring temp,#s(temp)#t(i)#b;

---

That #b is causing each word to be on a new line. :/ I don't think the wraptext is working. Maybe because it's serverside or does that not matter with wraptext?

[GoZelda]

Maybe there would be an easier way if we knew how this script was made. Maybe you should try to use string lists in some sort of way...