Hi,
I had a question. This is the code of a very simple cellphone I created. Every child of generic_cellphone has a number, and this is how the code is supposed to work:
Go through all the children of generic_cellphone with @foreach, and if the number attribute on any of them equals the number typed after the call command (the command syntax being call *), say connected, else say cannot find the target specified.
Well, as you can see, there is one thing wrong with this algorithm. If the generic_cellphone has 100 children, then the fail message will be given 99 times. But how can I fix this?
And is there something like a break command, for example, suppose we have three cellphones and the second one matches. The @foreach should stop immediately, how can I do that one?
Thanks!
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The method I tend to lean on for phone-number code is a bit of a cheat, using the dbref of the target object as the core of the phone-number. So if your database doesn't have anything over dbref #9999? Then trying to dial Cell Phone Object #1966 would be the in-character phone number 555-1966 (and dialing Cell Phone Object #867 would be 555-0867). Obviously, if you're up in the five digit range for dbrefs (or higher) one can change the prefix (so it's 550-1966 or whatever is required).

That way, the code just checks to see if the target dbref has the Cell Phone Parent as a parent, allowing the call to go through if it works out.

Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the initial @foreach question.

T'Then...
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From: parha...@gmail.com
To: tinymux@googlegroups.com
Subject: [TinyMUX] @Foreach Question
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:52:23 +0330

Hi,
I had a question. This is the code of a very simple
cellphone I created. Every child of generic_cellphone has a number, and this is
how the code is supposed to work:
Go through all the children of generic_cellphone
with @foreach, and if the number attribute on any of them equals the number
typed after the call command (the command syntax being call *), say connected,
else say cannot find the target specified.
Well, as you can see, there is one thing wrong with
this algorithm. If the generic_cellphone has 100 children, then the fail message
will be given 99 times. But how can I fix this?
And is there something like a break command, for
example, suppose we have three cellphones and the second one matches. The
@foreach should stop immediately, how can I do that one?
Thanks!
---
Contact info:
Skype: parham-d
MSN:
fire_lizard16 at hotmail dot com
email: parham90 at GMail dot
com

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It have been a very long time since I did any tux coding, but the
principle would be to create a function that took as parameters:

1. The number you were looking for.

2. The list of child objects.

The function looks at the list of child objects.  If it is empty, then
the number hasn't been found, so return #-1.

Otherwise, use the first() item in the list of child objects, and
match() on the number attribute.  If this is found, the function returns
the object id.

If it isn't found, then the function calls itself with the number you're
looking for, and rest() of the list of objects.

There's some trickery needed so you don't always evaluate the rest()
part, but I don't remember this in enough detail to give you an example.

Another way of tackling this problem would be to build a list of numbers
from children, then do a single match on that, and use the index of the
match to get back to the child object id.

Hope that helps a bit,

Mark
(aka Mark Farrell @ ATS a long long time ago)

th lsearch(,ething,\[match(%0,get(##/phonenumber))\])
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Apparently it stripped out something.  lsearch(all or lsearch(player if it owns all the cell phones

Guess who is used to PennMUSH?  That's right, ME!
You want 'help search()' for syntax and all that jazz.

And probably something like:
@va generic_cellphone=$CALL *:Th Pemit(%#,If(Search(all ething=\[match(%0,get(##/NUMBER))\]),Works,Doesn't work))

works, while EThings doesn't, since it says there is no such thing. So I
think what you wanted to put was eval, which evaluates each object. But
still, although I know a cellphone with the number 1 exists, this piece of
code,