> Yeah, I know I'm being picky, but hey.. I just want it to look (and work)
> good! :)
RD,
You're not alone. The following is from my "Reward.c" autoquest
(available at fine snippet sites everywhere):
if( guard == NULL )
{
guard = captain;
}
do_emote( guard, "points to a map." );
one_argument( room->name, first );
if( is_exact_name(first, "the a an") )
{
prep = "at ";
where = decap(victim->in_room->name);
}
else if( is_exact_name(first, "on in at by near inside under within
approaching standing climbing swimming sailing walking sliding floating close
lost along going over near very atop beneath before below between" ) )
{
prep = "";
where = decap(victim->in_room->name);
}
else
{
prep = "at ";
where = victim->in_room->name;
}
sprintf( buf, "I hear that %s was recently seen %s%s in %s.",
victim->short_descr, prep, where, room->area->name );
do_say( guard, buf );
This ends up being a compromise, some room names look a little funny,
but on the whole it returns a string that looks like a human typed it
and not like some computer blindly stuffed a name in a blank. I also
changed act to have %c which handles your example of fighting mobs:
$c
Result is the capitalized name of 'ch'. If 'ch' is not visible to the
target character, result is the string 'Someone'.
case 'c': i = capitalize(PERS( ch, to ));
shameless_plug( "Also included in %s.", Reward.c )
So, I guess I used both your options. First thing I did was go through
the areas and standardise all the mob and room names. Yes, that was a
lot of work, but it saved a lot of editing code being called all the
time, and I'm old enough to still worry about the CPU, and it's just
cleaner. I like tidy code.
Sandi
"SEGFAULT?!? I have not yet begun to code!"
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