QuickQ: visit_url("clan_hall.php");

[StDoodle]

Does anyone know what the results are of the above function for someone who's clanless? Since characters are never auto-deleted anymore, I'm hesitant to make a new one just to check that.

I'm wondering if it throws an error, returns "", or redirects to "town_clan.php" (or something else entirely). Anyone with a clanless character who would be willing to copypasta the results as a reply I would be most grateful to.

 

[lostcalpolydude]

You can leave your current clan without joining a new one by going to the Members page and using the button at the bottom. To answer the question, it sends you to the clan recruiter page.

 

[StDoodle]

Thanks for pointing out the "Leave Clan" option; somehow I'd never noticed it.

However, I'm getting a void result from visit_url("clan_hall.php") & visit_url("town_clan.php") with a clanless character... not sure what I can do with that... but I'll check it out.

 

[lostcalpolydude]

Oh, my method was outside of mafia, tested with the hot stuffing method. If the results are different, that's both strange and probably not helpful.

 

[StDoodle]

Oh, my method was outside of mafia, tested with the hot stuffing method. If the results are different, that's both strange and probably not helpful.

I think the redirects only happen when doing something in KoL proper (even hot-stuffing style); I'm pretty sure mafia ignores them.

But no biggie; just need to use a function with a testable return value that is set up to only return a certain value if nothing else returns, and make sure everything else WILL return, unless a string ends up VOID.

Now if I could just figure out how to handle quotes inside of a matcher...

 

[heeheehee]

Add a \ in front of the quote (so ' \" '). At least, it -should- work. I think.

 

[StDoodle]

Add a \ in front of the quote (so ' \" '). At least, it -should- work. I think.

Yeah, I thought so, but I'm wondering if I need multiple escapes to deal with ash string + matcher or what...

All I know is I'm trying to the name of a character's current clan with this:

string current_clan() {
	matcher mat =
		create_matcher(
			"<b>Clan Hall</b></td></tr><tr><td style=\"border: 1px solid blue; padding: 5px;\">" + 
			"<center><table><tbody><tr><td><center><b>(.+?)</b>",
			visit_url("clan_hall.php"));
	if (find(mat)) { return group(mat,1); }
	return "";
}

but I'm not having any luck...

 

[heeheehee]

Couldn't you prune your matcher to just "<center><b>(.+?)</b>"? As far as I can tell, that should work, and it'd bypass any silly escape issues.

 

[StDoodle]

Oh LOLZ. Apparently, the problem is that <tbody> doesn't actually exist in the version grabbed by visit_url... not sure where it creeps in, but THAT'S what was killing the matcher, not any special characters. Doh!

 

[zarqon]

You could also grab the clan name from showplayer.php (public charsheet) without worrying about whether or not the character is in a clan.

 

[mredge73]

This link is very helpful when building matchers:
http://www.fileformat.info/tool/regex.htm

FYI
For getting the clan name (taking directly out of my function library MrEdge73's Support Script -- Functions (Beta).ash):

//gets name of clan
//$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
string get_clan()
{
    string hall = visit_url( "clan_hall.php" );
    matcher m_clan = create_matcher( "<td><center><b>([^<]+)</b><br>" , hall );
    if( m_clan.find() )
    {
        return m_clan.group( 1 );
    }
    return "none";
}