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Leading zeros wanted.

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Posted by Shaun Biggs   USA  (644 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Tue 15 May 2007 03:10 AM (UTC)
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I'm trying to have a script display time in a format like 2m:05s in a script. Unfortunately, I can't find a nice way to add a zero in front of the seconds if it is less than 10 seconds without a separate if statement. Is there a string format option better than string.format( "%2dm:%2d", min, sec ) for what I'm trying to do, or should I give up and put an if statement in and just make a string out of it?

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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #1 on Tue 15 May 2007 03:30 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 15 May 2007 03:31 AM (UTC) by David Haley

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[david@thebalrog:~]$ cat test.lua
#!/usr/bin/lua


str = string.format("%02d %02d %03d", 0, 1, 2)
print(str)


[david@thebalrog:~]$ lua test.lua
00 01 002


That is what you want, no?

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Posted by Shaun Biggs   USA  (644 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #2 on Tue 15 May 2007 03:34 AM (UTC)
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Yes, precisely what I want to do. Thanks... been a while since I've needed to use those C formats.

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Posted by Shaun Biggs   USA  (644 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #3 on Tue 15 May 2007 09:42 PM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 15 May 2007 09:45 PM (UTC) by Shaun Biggs

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I'll just continue with using this to ask for string format help... Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this?
  <alias
   match="chancap:list"
   send_to="12"
   regexp="y"
   enabled="y"
  >
  <send>for i,v in pairs( channels ) do
  ColourNote( "white", "black", string.format( "%10s", tostring(i) ),
              "lime",  "black", " :"..v )
  end
  </send>
  </alias>

currently this spits out:
0s :true
0s :true
0s :true

if I get rid of the string.format bit, and just have i, then it shows the correct keys and values, but it's all messy looking.

Oh, and the value of channels = { ["clan"] = "true", ["ftalk"] = "true", ["spouse"] = "true" }

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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #4 on Wed 16 May 2007 12:20 AM (UTC)
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I don't get this behavior:


[dhaley@visionary:~]$ cat test.lua

channels = { ["clan"] = "true", ["ftalk"] = "true", ["spouse"] = "true" }

for i,v in pairs(channels) do
    print(string.format("%10s", tostring(i)), " :" .. v)
end

[dhaley@visionary:~]$ lua test.lua
    spouse       :true
     ftalk       :true
      clan       :true


The key/val pairs it prints out are exactly the ones in the table.

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Legends of the Darkstone

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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #5 on Wed 16 May 2007 12:21 AM (UTC)
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Oh. Is it possible that MUSHclient is doing a preprocessing step and translating %1 to the value of the first match, which is empty, and so the string.format string is actually just "0s" because the %1 gets removed?

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Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org
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Posted by Shaun Biggs   USA  (644 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #6 on Wed 16 May 2007 02:08 AM (UTC)
Message
Yep, that did it. I sent everything to a separate script, and it seems to be working fine now. I'm starting to think I should pay some sort of attention while scripting from now on. That explains why copying the syntax from one function to the script in the alias didn't act the same at all.

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