subtracting triggers

Posted by Lightzout on Mon 04 Jun 2007 07:22 PM — 3 posts, 14,142 views.

Lightzout Mon 04 Jun 2007 07:22 PM #0

Hi, I just registered and hope if you guys can help me. I'm having problems subtracting using Vbscripting, here's an example.

Trigger Line: You have gained (.*?) experience points.

Send: setvariable "experience",getvariable ("experience")-%1

normally this would work but with 4 digits or more, say, '5,000' then it'll cause the script to error, I suspect that the comma is the problem but the game doesn't have the option to remove it so I'm stuck here, anyone can help me?

David Haley USA Mon 04 Jun 2007 07:33 PM #1

Hi Lightzout,

First as a general note this should probably be in the MUSHclient VBscript section, not Programming General.

Now to solve your problem, you can remove the comma yourself in VBscript:

SetVariable "experience", GetVariable ("experience") - Replace(%1, ",", "")

That should work. You might need to wrap the replace call in a CInt call to convert to number first, but IIRC VB takes care of that kind of thing for you.

The modified version would be:
SetVariable "experience", CInt(GetVariable ("experience")) - CInt(Replace(%1, ",", ""))

Lightzout Tue 05 Jun 2007 01:26 AM #2

Oh, sorry! And thanks for the help. Thought this falls under programming section.