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ixle · Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 134 Location: United States

I would like to store information from #map list (particularly the vnums returned) into a list variable. The trouble I'm having is that tintin doesn't seem to be able to capture that data. Any tips?

Slysven · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:00 am Post subject:

Well I've had a go at doing this already, by adding a 7th (?) argument to the #MAP LIST command which puts a semicolon separated list into the given variable name (which is then parseable by the #FORALL/#FOREACH command)... Cross reference to topic in "Feature Requests"

This works well for me and is very much faster than a script solution (examining each room in order, in a TinTIn++ script to see if it matches) one thing I would warn you about, that is equally applicable to the original #MAP LIST command is that if you have multi-line descriptions with say "\n" as the line break marker I have found that searching for things in the description (3rd argument) does not work well unless, I think, you use a

ixle · Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 134 Location: United States

Thanks, I'll probably take the dive and try hacking my code for the first time for your referenced DO_MAP function. Nice that it also lists the area.

Looping through 30k rooms (or more as I continue to map) doesn't seem like a practical solution for accessing #MAP LIST data.

Again, thank you very much for this. Hopefully Scandum would see fit to make this an included upgrade to #MAP LIST in the future.

ixle · Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 134 Location: United States

Ok, I didn't change anything regarding the red edit about "20" instead of "%20s" but I added the rest of the DO_MAP(map_list) code, compiled and tried it out.

The area listing seemed to work fine without using the variable argument.

Slysven · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 2:00 pm Post subject:

Um, I made an error that I had fixed in my copy at home but not posted out to the forum. Embarassed

The code there now SHOULD work as intended, which does include not putting up on screen the list of rooms and some other details if a variable is to get the room vnumbs. Cool

ixle · Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 134 Location: United States

Thanks that fixed it. I'm gonna try and plug it in to the 2.00.9 code in a bit. I'll report back later on the results.

ixle · Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 134 Location: United States

Works fine in 2.00.9

Scandum · Site Admin Joined: 03 Dec 2004 Posts: 3281

You can also making an alias using #loop and #map at to go through all the vnums.

Slysven · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 10:07 am Post subject:

No disrespect intended Mr. Scandum Blink

whilst what you suggest is thoeretically correct and applicable to ALL users of [T,W]intin++, there IS a performance benefit by doing this in the executable code rather than a script; and for large maps, say >10K rooms, I feel this difference is visible, despite the effort necessary to "roll your own" executable tt++(.exe)! Big Smile

ixle · Joined: 15 Sep 2011 Posts: 134 Location: United States

So after implementing your code Slysven, I've finally gotten around to try and write some stuff off it, but I noticed the data stored in the variable is just a string.

I want to be able to access the vnums returned individually. Do I need to work out some way to split the string into a list on the semicolons or is there a better way? Could the code store it in a list by default?

Slysven · Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 11:27 am Post subject:

Just use a