file_to_map

[Pazleysox]

I haven't started coding this yet, but is it possible to pull a specific line from a map?

For example:
text.txt contains this data:
0 (date/time)
1 Council of Loathing
2 Madame Zatara
3 IotM
4 (my clan_name)

I want to be able to access lines 3, & 4.

Is this even possible?

[ckb]

    string [int] textmap;
    file_to_map("text.txt",textmap);
    print(textmap[3]);
    print(textmap[4]); 

[Pazleysox]

Scratch that...

[Pazleysox]

Is there a way I can tell the map_to_file to skip the first 2, or 3 words that it's going to return?

For Example:
For example:
text.txt contains this data:
0 This is not a message
1 Council of Loathing said "Are you ready to crawl into the science donation vessel and perform your final service to the community?"
2 Madame Zatara
3 The current IotM is: (this is what it is)

line 1, I only want "Are you ready to crawl into the science donation vessel and perform your final service to the community?"
line 3, I only want (this is what it is)

Is that possible?

[Veracity]

No. That function returns whatever is in your file. You have two choices:

1) Make sure the data in the file is in the form you want it to be
2) Write code in your script to process what is in the file into the form you want it to be

[Pazleysox]

I found a this (now modified) code in the forum

void main() {

    matcher m;
string raidlog = visit_url("shop.php?whichshop=generalstore");
	m = create_matcher("was a ([a-z]*)", raidlog);
    if (find(m)) {
        print ("test");
        print(group(m,1));
    }

which produces this:
> call scripts\00TEST.ash

test
hero

void main() {

    matcher m;
string raidlog = visit_url("shop.php?whichshop=generalstore");
	m = create_matcher("was a (\\w*)", raidlog);
    if (find(m)) {
        print ("test");
        print(group(m,1));
    }

produces the same thing. Is there a regex command to pull ALL the following text? I tried various things like this:
(\\w*) (\\w*), and [a-z]* [a-z]* [a-z]*
but I got the same output each time.

I would like it to say this "hero of the Cola Wars. Now I wage war"

[Darzil]

I always test my regexes using a regex tester first. I use http://www.regexplanet.com/advanced/java/index.html, but there are plenty out there.

[heeheehee]

" " isn't matched by \w or [a-z]+. Similarly, "." isn't matched by any of those groups.

I'd probably use something like [^<]+ to match everything until the start of the next HTML tag.

edit: also, note that m.group(1) will only return the first capturing group, i.e. what's in the first set of parentheses.

[Pazleysox]

" " isn't matched by \w or [a-z]+. Similarly, "." isn't matched by any of those groups.

I'd probably use something like [^<]+ to match everything until the start of the next HTML tag.

edit: also, note that m.group(1) will only return the first capturing group, i.e. what's in the first set of parentheses.

	m = create_matcher("was ([^<]+)", raidlog);
    if (find(m)) {
        print ("test");
	print(m);
        print(group(m,1));

Got this to work. Here's my results:

test
was ([^<]+)
a hero of the Cola Wars. Now I wage war against high prices!

Now, how can I put that into a map?

[Pazleysox]

I've tried these, but I keep coming up with errors...

map_to_file(group(m,1), "test.txt");
map_to_file((m,1), "test.txt");
map_to_file(m, "test.txt");
map_to_file(group(m), "test.txt");

string savetofile = group(m,1);

map_to_file(savetofile, "test.txt");