How to get a list of players in a chat channel?

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PaladinWhite

Member
I've frequently got Time-Spinner minutes left at the end of the day, and I thought it'd be fun to use them pranking players in my clan - specifically, those who are online at the time. I know that I can "timespinner prank [targetname]" to do the actual pranking. But how can I get a target list of who's in the /clan channel? Is there any way to access this information in a .ash? Maybe something via the API that I can't find documented anywhere?

Thanks very much for the help.
 
Bale

Bale

Minion
Let's see if there is such a command...

Code: 
[COLOR="#880"]> ashref clan[/COLOR]

void chat_clan( string )
void chat_clan( string, string )
int get_clan_id( )
int [item] get_clan_lounge )
string get_clan_name( )
string [int] get_clan_rumpus( )
boolean [string] who_clan( )

See what I did there? The command you're looking for is who_clan()
 
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PaladinWhite

Member
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Believe it or not, I did try both ashref and searching the wiki. Unfortunately, I assumed that any function serving this purpose would work across chat channels, so I tried something like:

Code: 
> ashref chat

void chat_clan( string )
void chat_clan( string, string )
void chat_macro( string )
void chat_notify( string, string )
void chat_private( string, string )
int [item] get_chateau( )

> ashref channel

> ashref online

boolean is_online( string )

... and found nothing. Is it safe to assume by implication that there is not similar functionality for any channel other than /clan?

Also - and this is unrelated to the thread title, so I hope you'll indulge me - why doesn't this work?

Code: 
boolean [string] clannies = who_clan();
sort clannies by random(100);
foreach clannie in clannies {
	print(clannie);
}

I don't want to prank people according to alphabetical priority, so I tried randomizing them. The wiki page on data structures > sort seems to indicate that random(int) should work. But I still get an alphabetized map. Is it not possible to randomize a map that's not indexed by number?
 
Bale

Bale

Minion
PaladinWhite said:
... and found nothing. Is it safe to assume by implication that there is not similar functionality for any channel other than /clan?
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Correct. There was a reason for that, but I simply can't remember what.


Also - and this is unrelated to the thread title, so I hope you'll indulge me - why doesn't this work?

Code: 
boolean [string] clannies = who_clan();
sort clannies by random(100);
foreach clannie in clannies {
	print(clannie);
}

I don't want to prank people according to alphabetical priority, so I tried randomizing them. The wiki page on data structures > sort seems to indicate that random(int) should work. But I still get an alphabetized map. Is it not possible to randomize a map that's not indexed by number?
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That doesn't work because you are ordering a whole bunch of booleans, not strings. You're changing which boolean value is ordered by which string. It works fine, but it is pretty meaningless.
 
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PaladinWhite

Member
Bale said:
That doesn't work because you are ordering a whole bunch of booleans, not strings. You're changing which boolean value is ordered by which string. It works fine, but it is pretty meaningless.
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Ah, yeah, that was dumb. I guess I'll have to be super-kludgy and copy all those players into an int-indexed map. Thanks for all the help.
 
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