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[gfbaer]

Hello!

I think I might be able to swing this one on my own, but at the moment I'm stuck I was hoping to get a tip or two in the right direction..

I want to keep a #path of where I walk from a given starting point, but I don't want to record the path if I am backtracking..

IE: I walk :

n n w w e e n u

I don't want to record the (w w e e) part so that I can give my group mates shortest directions which in this case would be n n n u (it would be even better if i could just tell them 3nu but thats another question I suppose)

Here is the code i have so far, it works fine so long as I don't walk down a hallway with more than one direction of the same type. like the example above, it will only backtrack one room.

[Scandum]

The automapper would come in useful here, if you paste the following commands it should record and display the shortest path:

#map create
#map goto 1
#map name start

n;n;w;w;e;e;n;u

#map name end

#map goto start
#map find end
#path map


I've added a #path compress option to the todo list to create a speedwalk.

[gfbaer]

Ok that works great! Big ups for the help!

I don't suppose there is an easy way to convert that path into a speedwalkable variable is there? I'm thinking I'll have to save the path, then #system some awk-fu to conver the :

#ALIAS {mypath} {n;e;s;s;e;u;u;w}

TO

#VAR {mypath} {ne2se2uw}

... Maybe something else for a future release? You're awesome man thanks for the help again.

-G

(alks on torilmud.org 9999)

[Scandum]

I'm planning to add the following:

#path new
#PATH: YOU ARE NOW MAPPING A PATH.
n;n;n;e;s;w;u;d
#path compress
#OK. #PATH COMPRESS: {3neswud} {duwse3n}
#path map
#PATH: 3neswud