Thanks for the reply. This is what I was originally going to do. However, that would only allow me to work properly with transfer. I'd have to do similar things with cast, recite, etc. Not a huge deal, it just seems a bit hackish to me (though not as hackish as what I used to verify it worked).
Anyway, the quotation thing that the next response gave will probably do it for me. Very obvious, too.. I can't believe I didn't think about it. Thanks again. On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Dale Kingston wrote: > Find the mob you want in the working useing get_mob_world, and then use > char_from_room char_to_room and drop some act messages.... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anarchangel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 1:00 AM > Subject: Mob name question > > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > This is going to probably be a newbie question, so for that I > > apologize. I'd still like some ideas if possible. > > > > Here's a typical example. > > > > Let's say we want to copy an NPC name and an argument to a buffer. > > > > sprintf( buf, "%s %s", victim->name, arg2 ); > > > > Then we want to: > > > > do_transfer( ch, buf ); > > > > This is all good and well. If the victim name is "Ghoul", and the > > argument is "3000", it transfers ghoul to 3000. Yay. > > > > But what if it's oldstyle smurfette? It then becomes "transfer oldstyle > > smurfette 3000". That's not how I want it. > > > > Sure, I can modify my transfer.. but it's not a question of transfer, it's > > passing NPC names to generic functions. So here's how I temporarily set > > it up, just to make sure it works. > > > > for ( victim = ch->in_room->people; victim; victim = victim_next ) > > { > > victim_next = victim->next_in_room; > > if( is_same_group( who,victim ) ) > > { > > sprintf( cname, "%s", victim->name ); > > for (i = 0; cname[i] != '\0'; i++) > > { > > if(isspace(cname[i])) > > cname[i] = '\0'; > > } > > > > // sprintf( buf, "%s %s", victim->name, arg2 ); > > sprintf( buf, "%s %s", cname, arg2 ); > > log_string( buf ); > > do_mptransfer( ch, buf ); > > } > > } > > > > This is the ugliest, most hackish job EVER. But it does work. oldstyle > > smurfette gets truncated to just oldstyle. So then it becomes an issue of > > whether or not there are two oldstyles in the room. This means my > > temporary hack isn't a final solution either. > > > > My question then is, what would be a better way to accomplish this? I > > would appreciate any input. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Jimmy > > > > > > -- > > ROM mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > > >
