my script questions

Just going to keep an on going thread for myself here instead of making a thread every time I have a question. I'll end up filling up the forums!

My next question is...

I want to kill a script, but it could be any one of these scripts:

big_apple.lic
red_apple.lic
small_apple.lic

Is there a wild card character I can use to circumvent having to type in every script?

if Script.running?("$_apple")
kill_script("$_apple")
end

I am sure this isnt the correct characters to use, but do you see what I am saying?



Thanks for all the help so far...

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Originally Posted by onurb

Just going to keep an on going thread for myself here instead of making a thread every time I have a question. I'll end up filling up the forums!

My next question is...

I want to kill a script, but it could be any one of these scripts:

big_apple.lic
red_apple.lic
small_apple.lic

Is there a wild card character I can use to circumvent having to type in every script?

if Script.running?("$_apple")
kill_script("$_apple")
end

I am sure this isnt the correct characters to use, but do you see what I am saying?



Thanks for all the help so far...

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If you mean you want to kill those scripts if they are running you could do this:

Code:

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all_scripts = [ "big_apple", "red_apple", "small_apple" ]
all_scripts.each{ |script_name| kill_script script_name }

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That would kill each listed script.

Well thats some good info, and I will definately make use of that. However, the examples I gave you was just 3 script names. What if it was 100 script names? Not saying that it is. But is there not a way that you can do something like anything that ends in _apple will be killed?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by onurb

Well thats some good info, and I will definately make use of that. However, the examples I gave you was just 3 script names. What if it was 100 script names? Not saying that it is. But is there not a way that you can do something like anything that ends in _apple will be killed?

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Script.running.each{ |running_script| kill_script running_script if running_script.name =~ /.*_apple/ }

Thank you, that worked out just as I needed it to. I knew * meant everything but didnt realize it was in lich/ruby also.

So I got this problem now...

I am trying to get a heirloom out of my container and the command below usually works, but sometimes the critter I killed will carry the item I need but its not classified as "jewelry".

do_client(";foreach first 1 jewelry in knapsack;get item")

So I started using this, and it was working for a while, atleast until the last critter I killed carried a box, a gem, and the heirloom. When I looted them, the gem ended up being the first item in my container and therfor, was pulled out with the command below.

do_client(";foreach first 1 unique in knapsack;get item")

What can I do to fix this?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by onurb

Thank you, that worked out just as I needed it to. I knew * meant everything but didnt realize it was in lich/ruby also.

So I got this problem now...

I am trying to get a heirloom out of my container and the command below usually works, but sometimes the critter I killed will carry the item I need but its not classified as "jewelry".

do_client(";foreach first 1 jewelry in knapsack;get item")

So I started using this, and it was working for a while, atleast until the last critter I killed carried a box, a gem, and the heirloom. When I looted them, the gem ended up being the first item in my container and therfor, was pulled out with the command below.

do_client(";foreach first 1 unique in knapsack;get item")

What can I do to fix this?

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I'm not sure about using the ;foreach script, I have never used it before.

This bit of code should work for you though:

Code:

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if checkbounty =~ /You have located (?:an?|some) (.*) and should bring it back/
        heirloom_name = $1
        container = GameObj.inv.find{ |item| item.noun == "knapsack" }
        needed_item = container.contents.find{ |item| item.name =~ /#{heirloom_name}/ }
        fput "get ##{needed_item.id}"
end

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that works well, ty. what does $1 mean

$ in this context means a regex match. In the previous line, (.*) sets up a regex group, and you match against that using the =~ syntax. You can run each of these from the client in game to see what they do:

Code:

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;e foo=/(.*) (.*)/;"hello world"=~foo;echo $1
;e foo=/(.*) (.*)/;"hello world"=~foo;echo $2
;e foo=/(.*)/;"hello world"=~foo;echo $1

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Just to be clear, the 1 in $1 means the first regex match. $2 is the second one, etc.

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Originally Posted by Slark

$ in this context means a regex match. In the previous line, (.*) sets up a regex group, and you match against that using the =~ syntax. You can run each of these from the client in game to see what they do. Just to be clear, the 1 in $1 means the first regex match. $2 is the second one, etc.

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hmm, thats very cool. ty for the explanation. this will come in handy.

trying to adjust the code to accomodate gems, but it appears I may have something wrong...

if checkbounty =~ /multiple customers requesting (?:an?|some) (.*)/
gem_name = $1
container = GameObj.inv.find{ |item| item.noun == "knapsack" }
needed_gem = container.contents.find{ |item| item.name =~ /#{gem_name}/ }
fput "get ##{needed_gem.id}"
end

output is this...

>;test
--- Lich: test active.
[test]>get #
Get what?
--- Lich: test has exited.