OMG thank you so much....ill get right on this and test it! Thanks so much!
-K > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Lindsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 4:56 PM > To: Mervine, Keith; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Taking a string and separating it into different vars > > > Ok, I spent the last hour or so putting together a little > function that > *should* do it for you... none of it has been tested, so > you'll have to > do that, but if there are any bugs, they should be minor... > also I don't > promise that it's the most efficient way to do it memory-wise, but > again, it should work :) just call it from whatever function you need > the info parsed from, like if it's a > find-area-for-this-mob's-level kind > of command, you'd call it from there, and you'll have to declare the > variables to use in that function... the parse function only parses to > the variables you send it... so for example, if you were > calling it from > the parent function, you'd declare a variable for the lower > level range, > upper level range, creator name, and area name, like so: > > int minlvl, maxlvl; > char creator[MAX_STRING_LENGTH], name[MAX_STRING_LENGTH]; > > then when you loop through the area list or whatever you're searching > through, call the function w/ those 4 variables, and the > credits as the > first argument to the function... assuming that you're using > a variable > called pArea as your AREA_DATA type, you'd call it like so from the > parent function: > > parse_credits(pArea->credits,minlvl,maxlvl,creator,name); > > and then for this credit line: "@w{ 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Diku @[EMAIL > PROTECTED]" > it should set the following values (it'll strip the color codes too): > > minlvl = 1; > maxlvl = 99; > creator = "Diku"; > name = "REverdale"; > > which you can then use from the parent function... hope it helps... > > void parse_credits( char *credits, minlvl, maxlvl, creator, name ) > { > char *point, *point2, *levels, buf[MAX_STRING_LENGTH]; > char buf2[MAX_STRING_LENGTH], value[MAX_STRING_LENGTH]; > > buf[0] = '\0'; > point2 = buf; > > /* First strip the color codes */ > for ( point = credits; *point; ++point ) > { > if ( *point == '@' ) > { > ++point; > continue; > } > > *point2 = *point; > *++point2 = '\0'; > } > > /* Now point2 should be a black and white version of credits, > so we just break it up into arguments, which means 1 more > loop to isolate level range before we use one_argument */ > point2 = buf; > buf2[0] = '\0'; > levels = buf2; > for ( point = point2; *point; ++point ) > { > if ( *point == '{' ) > continue; > else if ( *point == '}' ) > { > ++point; > break; > } > > *levels = *point; > *++levels = '\0'; > } > > /* Now levels should contain just the segment within the > braces, and point should contain everything after the > braces, and we can use one_argument for the rest... */ > levels = one_argument(levels,value); > > if ( !is_number(value) ) > log_string("Invalid numeric argument in area credits > (minlvl)"); > else minlvl = atoi(value); > > levels = one_argument(levels,value); > > if ( !is_number(value) ) > log_string("Invalid numeric argument in area credits > (maxlvl)"); > else maxlvl = atoi(value); > > point = one_argument(point,creator); > point = one_argument(point,name); > return; > } > > Richard Lindsey > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mervine, Keith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 2:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Taking a string and separating it into different vars > > Hello all. > > I need to take my Credits line of my area files and separate it into > 3 separate variables...and example of my credits line is as follows. > > The credits are char *credits > > @w{ 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Diku @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > @[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thalor @RThe Tower of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > @w{ 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Strahd @RTown Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > the @'s are my color code... > > What I need is to have the vars like this > > levels = 1-99 > creator = Diku > > Can someone give me a hint on how to start? > > > Thanks! > > -K > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >
