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Using Tables to Create a Player database
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| Posted by
| Dpw3868
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| Fri 04 Dec 2009 06:48 AM (UTC) |
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| Hi, I am new to mushclient and using lua.
Not sure exactly where to start but i want to make an alias that allows me to add a players Name, class, and clan to a table.
I've been looking around and i guess it would look something like this
Alias playeradd * * *
-- playeradd Joe Mage BIGCLAN
player = player or {}
x = %1
player = %1 -- Joe ?
player[x].class = %2 -- Mage ?
player[x].clan = %3 -- BIGCLAN
Not sure if this is right, where i would put this in the program or anything like that. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #1 on Fri 04 Dec 2009 09:52 PM (UTC) |
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| You need to decide if you want to "key" on the player name or not (probably you do, so you don't get two of the same name in your table). You really want a table of tables. eg.
players = players or {} -- make players table if not already there
local name = "%1"
players [name:lower ()] = { class = "%2", clan = "%3" }
Note you need to quote the wildcards, as they are strings.
I have forced the name to lowercase to make sure that Joe and joe are stored in the same place.
The players table is the table of all players, and each entry has the player name as the key. For each player there is another table, which has two entries, class and clan.
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Dpw3868
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| Reply #2 on Fri 11 Dec 2009 10:05 PM (UTC) |
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| Thank you Nick for the helpful response.
I used the script you wrote and it works great.
I wrote another basic script using your tprint function to output the table.
I would to know use this information to highlight peoples names on the mud by the clan affiliation.
Is this possible and what should i read up on? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #3 on Sat 12 Dec 2009 12:05 AM (UTC) Amended on Sat 12 Dec 2009 12:08 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| This looks similar:
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Dpw3868
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| Reply #4 on Wed 16 Dec 2009 09:25 PM (UTC) |
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| I am now able to make the table, but How do i save the table from 1 session to the next?
Thanks
Dan | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
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| Reply #5 on Wed 16 Dec 2009 10:05 PM (UTC) |
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- Nick Gammon
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #6 on Thu 17 Dec 2009 03:46 AM (UTC) |
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| Another approach, which might be simpler and possibly safer in case of program crashes, is to use SQLite (ie. a database). For some details and examples see:
http://www.gammon.com.au/db
and
http://www.gammon.com.au/sql
You could set up a database containing a table of players, clans etc., and add to that as required. Then you can use a SQL query to find players in a particular clan, or meeting certain requirements (eg. a level range). |
- Nick Gammon
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