so i want to make a multiplayer "mud" game, and was gonna use tele-arena as my model, since i rewrote it form worldgroup in C i figured i would make a synchronet port, that gave me 2 options, C or JS, and since i never played
with JS before i took on a learning project :)

anyhow, to better aid myself i broke the project into steps, first playing
with the ini databasing which i think i pretty much got the hang of, and now
im working on parsing my input routines.

here's what i got thus far:

while(1)
{
var cmd = console.getstr().toLowerCase();

if((cmd=="exit") || (cmd=="x")) exit();
else
{
console.writeln(format("You typed: %s",cmd));
console.crlf();
console.print(":");
}
}

while that does work for single word commands i wanted to better learn how to parse it for multiple character commands.

so like if i wanted to whisper to a user like "whisper <user> <message>"

in C i would go:

if((argc==3) && (!stricmp(argv[0],"whisper")))
{
whisper(argv[1],argv[2]);
}

can anyone point me in the direction for a better formula to grab
pieces of the text and break it into subparts like above?

i tried this way:

var cmd = console.getstr().toLowerCase();

console.writeln(format("You typed: %s",cmd));

var parsed = cmd.split(" ",3);

console.writeln(format("I parsed it to: %s %s %s",parsed[0],
parsed[1],
parsed[2]));

which did seem to work but just seemed like a hard way to do something easier. any thoughts?

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Re: Multiuser chat room
By: Ice to All on Thu Jun 09 2011 04:15 pm

so i want to make a multiplayer "mud" game, and was gonna use tele-arena as my model, since i rewrote it form worldgroup in C i figured i would make a synchronet port, that gave me 2 options, C or JS, and since i never played with JS before i took on a learning project :)

anyhow, to better aid myself i broke the project into steps, first playing with the ini databasing which i think i pretty much got the hang of, and
now im working on parsing my input routines.

here's what i got thus far:

while(1)
{
var cmd = console.getstr().toLowerCase();

if((cmd=="exit") || (cmd=="x")) exit();
else
{
console.writeln(format("You typed: %s",cmd));
console.crlf();
console.print(":");
}
}

while that does work for single word commands i wanted to better learn how to parse it for multiple character commands.

so like if i wanted to whisper to a user like "whisper <user> <message>"

in C i would go:

if((argc==3) && (!stricmp(argv[0],"whisper")))
{
whisper(argv[1],argv[2]);
}

can anyone point me in the direction for a better formula to grab
pieces of the text and break it into subparts like above?

i tried this way:

var cmd = console.getstr().toLowerCase();

console.writeln(format("You typed: %s",cmd));

var parsed = cmd.split(" ",3);

console.writeln(format("I parsed it to: %s %s %s",parsed[0],
parsed[1],
parsed[2]));

which did seem to work but just seemed like a hard way to do something easier. any thoughts?

That's a pretty common method of JS string parsing. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String for the JS String reference. Synchronet doesn't add any new/different string parsing classes.

digital man

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On 6/9/2011 5:59 PM, Digital Man wrote:

That's a pretty common method of JS string parsing. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String for
the JS String reference. Synchronet doesn't add any new/different string parsing classes.

There is pretty good regex support, could also do a custom buffer via inkey loop, which would also allow for listening for events while typing...

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