Subj : JS Commission?
To   : Android8675
From : echicken
Date : Tue Jul 14 2020 11:05 pm

  Re: JS Commission?
  By: Android8675 to echicken on Tue Jul 14 2020 11:51:05

 >> const story = backslash(format('stories/%s', argv[0]));
 >> const save_dir = backslash(format('%sif/%s%d', system.data_dir, story,
 >> user.number));
 >> //debug
 >> console.print(story);
 >> console.crlf(2);
 >> console.print(save_dir);

 An> and it spits out:

 >> stories/zork1.z3/

 >> /sbbs/data/if/stories/zork1.z3/1/

 An> the save path is fine, and I verified it works, but how do I drop the trailing
 An> slash for the story file? Was thinking:

 >> const story = format('stories/%s', argv[0]);

backslash(str) adds a slash or backslash to 'str', depending whether you are on *nix or Windows. I don't think it actually checks to see if the path exists, if there's a file or dir there, etc.

You might try:

const story = format('stories/%s', argv[0]);
const save_dir = backslash(format('%sif/%s', system.data_dir, story));
const save_file = format('%s%d', save_dir, user.number);

and then adjust your script to use save_file instead of save_dir.

Or you could condense it to:

const save_file = backslash(format('%sif/stories/%s', system.data_dir, argv[0])) + user.number;

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