Sorting cogs into different pegs

Posted by Alderkar on Mon 13 Mar 2017 02:53 AM — 5 posts, 21,410 views.

Alderkar Mon 13 Mar 2017 02:53 AM #0

I am just learning and have been banging my head against this for a bit and was hoping for some more experienced eyes. Im very inexperienced and i need a explain it like im 5...

what im trying to do is sort circles into pegs for a mini game. I have compiled all the combinations that are possible (120) into a text file and now im trying to put those numbers into a table so that it trys it, then loops back and trys the next line in the file. So far i have this...


file = io.open("file.txt", "r")

for line in file:lines() do
print(line)   
--This works and prints the output:
--     1,2,3,4,5
--     5,4,3,2,1 
end

     table = {1,2,3,4,5}


for key , value in pairs(table) do 
--print ("cog",key,"peg",value)
Send("put ","cog",key," ","peg",value)

end


--This works and sends

put cog1 peg1
put cog2 peg2
put cog3 peg3
put cog4 peg4
put cog5 peg5

Now im having a hard time instead of explicitly telling it to set the table like this

" table = {1,2,3,4,5}"

i want it to do something like this

" table = {line data from the file read above}"

and then loop it back through each possibility from a file of 120 lines which has data that looks like this


1,2,3,4,5
1,2,3,5,4
1,2,4,3,5
1,2,4,5,3
1,2,5,3,4
1,2,5,4,3
1,3,2,4,5
1,3,2,5,4...

all the way through all the combinations.

Each time i try to do that im not getting the output im expecting. I am banging my head against the wall the right way to do it.

I really appreciate all you advanced level guys helping out the newbs like me

Alderkar Mon 13 Mar 2017 03:37 AM #1

I actually might know what im doing wrong. For the dudes like me who are learning

when changing just to

table = {line}
output im getting is:

cog 1 peg 1,2,3,4,5
cog 1 peg 5,4,3,2,1

so its just overwriting my key with a different value (1,2,3,4,5, and 5,4,3,2,1)

if I go "print(type(line))"
it tells me the type of my data is a string.

Which is probably why the table is not grabbing the data in the way I want it. Still need help trying to find out how to import this as numbers and not as a string if thats possible :) :) :)

Alderkar Mon 13 Mar 2017 04:37 AM #2

alright. Here is my solution so far.

Sorry for the message board spam

i have changed my data so its more like
12345
54321 (etc)

I figured from google that i had to grab the number and split it up into different variables so this is how i did it. im playing with mushclient because for some reason i get the right output on sublime(editor im using) but mushclient wont send the data. I might have a different version of lua? im not sure...

file = io.open("thenumbers.txt", "r")

for line in file:lines() do
s=line
--print("printing line", line)

c1,c2,c3,c4,c5=s:match('(%d)(%d)(%d)(%d)(%d)')
t={tonumber(c1),tonumber(c2),tonumber(c3),tonumber(c4),tonumber(c5)}

table = {t[1],t[2],t[3],t[4],t[5]}

for key , value in pairs(table) do
print("cog",key,"peg",value)
Send("put ","cog",key," ","peg",value)
end
end
Send("test")
Send("get all peg1 and peg2 and peg3 and peg4 and peg5")

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Mon 13 Mar 2017 11:03 PM #3

To make your code more readable please use [code] tags as described here.

I've done your first post, please fix up the others. It's hard to read what you are trying to do.

Don't call a variable "table" because that is the name of a table inside Lua.

For example, if you assign something to "table" then you won't be able to do things like:


table.insert (foo, "hello")

Alderkar Tue 14 Mar 2017 03:31 PM #4

oops lol

thanks for getting back to me, i ended up getting this working but really really not in the way it should... i basically got everything to spit out the commands i need into a text file and then i made that text file a lua script and call that.

ill clean up/show my crappy solution soon for anyone searching this topic later.