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Description of MUSHclient world function: world.GetEntity

Name GetEntity
Type Method
Summary Retrieves the value of an MXP server-defined entity
Prototype BSTR GetEntity(BSTR Name);

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Description

Returns the value of an entity defined by the MUD server using MXP.

eg.

If the server sent:

<!ENTITY foo "bar">

Then if you did this:

world.Note world.GetEntity ("foo")

You would see "bar" displayed.

To get standard (automatically defined) entities use GetXMLEntity.

Note: Available in version 3.30 onwards.
VBscript example 
world.Note world.GetEntity ("foo")
Jscript example 
world.Note (world.GetEntity ("foo"));
PerlScript example 
$world->Note (world.GetEntity ("foo"));
Python example 
world.Note (world.GetEntity ("foo"))
Lua example 
Note (GetEntity ("foo"))
Returns The contents of the specified entity, or an empty string if no such entity is found.
Introduced in version 3.30

See also ...

Function Description
GetVariable Gets the contents of a variable
GetXMLEntity Retrieves the value of a standard entity
SetEntity Sets the value of an MXP entity

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