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Trigger to catch time trigger was fired

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Silencher (55 posts) Bio

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Fri 10 Apr 2015 12:31 PM (UTC)

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Can someone give me a sample trigger that, when fired, saves and stores the full date, time (hours/min/secs) it was fired to a variable? i'm not sure how to do this even after reading the Lua documentation

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Posted by Fiendish USA (2,536 posts) Bio Global Moderator

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Reply #1 on Fri 10 Apr 2015 03:34 PM (UTC)

Amended on Fri 10 Apr 2015 03:41 PM (UTC) by Fiendish

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To get a table of the date and time ( http://lua-users.org/wiki/OsLibraryTutorial ):


os.date('*t')

To save that to an internal script variable, just assign it.


date_and_time = os.date('*t')

To save tables to a MUSHclient Variable though you have to serialize the table to a string and then later convert it back to a table from its serialized form.

So, per http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=4960
To save it, you could do:


require "serialize"
date_and_time = os.date('*t')
SetVariable ("date_and_time", "date_and_time = " .. serialize.save_simple (date_and_time))

And then to load it later:


assert (loadstring (GetVariable ("date_and_time") or "")) ()

And then you'll again have a local script variable that contains a date/time table called date_and_time.

https://github.com/fiendish/aardwolfclientpackage

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