Subj : Multiuser chat room
To   : Ice
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jun 09 2011 05:59 pm

  Re: Multiuser chat room
  By: Ice to All on Thu Jun 09 2011 04:15 pm

 > so i want to make a multiplayer "mud" game, and was gonna use tele-arena as
 > my model, since i rewrote it form worldgroup in C i figured i would make a
 > synchronet port, that gave me 2 options, C or JS, and since i never played
 > with JS before i took on a learning project :)
 >
 > anyhow, to better aid myself i broke the project into steps, first playing
 > with the ini databasing which i think i pretty much got the hang of, and
 > now im working on parsing my input routines.
 >
 > here's what i got thus far:
 >
 > while(1)
 > {
 >     var cmd = console.getstr().toLowerCase();
 >
 >     if((cmd=="exit") || (cmd=="x")) exit();
 >     else
 >     {
 >        console.writeln(format("You typed: %s",cmd));
 >        console.crlf();
 >        console.print(":");
 >     }
 > }
 >
 > while that does work for single word commands i wanted to better learn how
 > to parse it for multiple character commands.
 >
 > so like if i wanted to whisper to a user like "whisper <user> <message>"
 >
 > in C i would go:
 >
 > if((argc==3) && (!stricmp(argv[0],"whisper")))
 > {
 >  whisper(argv[1],argv[2]);
 > }
 >
 > can anyone point me in the direction for a better formula to grab
 > pieces of the text and break it into subparts like above?
 >
 > i tried this way:
 >
 > var cmd = console.getstr().toLowerCase();
 >
 > console.writeln(format("You typed: %s",cmd));
 >
 > var parsed = cmd.split(" ",3);
 >
 > console.writeln(format("I parsed it to: %s %s %s",parsed[0],
 >                                                   parsed[1],
 >                                                   parsed[2]));
 >
 > which did seem to work but just seemed like a hard way to do something
 > easier. any thoughts?

That's a pretty common method of JS string parsing. See
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String for
the JS String reference. Synchronet doesn't add any new/different string
parsing classes.

                                            digital man

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