I guess I don't quite understand--it seems to be working okay as-is, do you think I ought to change it to be *ch?
Relatedly, I've noticed that format_string was made for room descripts (duh) and strips out any blank lines. I'm trying to modify it so if the buffer looks like \r\n (AKA a new line-- right?) it'll shove out \r\n instead of making it into ' '. I think some people like paragraph breaks in their room descrips anywho. Actually, in retrospect, I guess this won't work.. I need to make it \r\n\n.. or something.. *boggles* What's a blank line look like? \r\n\r\n? Ah, how much easier it would be if it was HTML. Thanks again, Jeremy Hill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin Groothuis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeremy Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 12:20 AM Subject: Re: Line formatting query > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:11:32AM -0600, Jeremy Hill wrote: > > Greetings and salutations, > > First time posting; have a quick question for you. I use Erwin's note > > board system. I was going to make a note formatter > > for it, but then I noticed that OLC had a formatter built in, called > > format_string: > > char *format_string (char *oldstring) > > > > I figured I could kind of make use of this and use that instead of making my > > own line formatter, so this is what I did in > > void handle_con_note_finish (part of board.c): > > > > case 'o': /*format note*/ > > ch->pcdata->in_progress->text = format_string > > (ch->pcdata->in_progress->text); > > write_to_buffer (d,"Note formatted.\n\r",0); > > break; > > > > Now, here's my question-- some of the other calls to format_string use > > pointers, like > > *ch->desc->pString = format_string (*ch->desc->pString); > > while others do not, like > > pRoom->description = format_string (pRoom->description); > > if you check the defintion of the description field in the roomindexdata > struct, you see that it's a char *, so it is a pointer. > What you also can see in the definition of the pString field in the > descriptordata is that it's a char **, so a pointer to a pointer. > > So as long as the parameter for the format_string is a char *, > everything will go okay. But if it's different? Ooooh my god :-) > > Edwin > > -- > Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: > ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/
