Forums Scripts & Popups variables

I'm running into a small problem which is probably super easy to fix but my brain isn't quite functioning it seems.. I guess having a kid in the background who is whiney is the problem. lol

Anyway.. I need some help with variables. I have a command which works fine but here's what I want to add onto it.. The command is for a RP. When the person drinks it increases their health by 1, Certain people in the RP are pregnant and want a nursing command but since nursing is hard on a mother I wanted to make it decrease 1 health from the mother when nursed upon. I can't seem to get it right though.. The overall nursing command works but I can't seem to make it read who the mother is. In the variables I have %mother(nick of the person here) (mothers name here) How do I get it to read the mother's name from there and decrease her health by 1 which is under %(nick) (health) in the variables?

Please show us the actual code you are using to set the variables so that I (or someone else) can provide you with actual code, rather than an educated guess.

Sorry.

on *:TEXT:!nurse*:#:{
if (Pup isin %p [ $+ [ $nick ] ]) {
/set % $+ $nick $calc % [ $+ [ $nick ] ] + 1
/msg $chan 15,1 $+ $nick suckles from their mother, %mother [ $+ [ $nick ] ] $+ . $nick $+ 's HP is now % [ $+ [ $nick ] ] $+ . }

This code works.. But like I said, I want it to decrease the mother's health by 1.

Where is the variable that contains the mother's health?

The var for the mother's health is %(their nick here) (health) in the variables. It's not in the code because I couldn't make it work. :P

This re-write changes the method of evaluation of the dynamic variables simply due to the fact that I have a hard time working with dynamic variables using the method that you have used (which is also the method shown in the help file).

Thanks! It works nicely.

Just as a side note, and something to take into consideration.

Some people tend to use:
$($+(%,staticVarName,.,$identifier),2)

Other people just use:
%staticVarName. [ $+ [ $identifier ] ]

Personally, I prefer the brackets, because I like the seperation in code. (Atleast while using variables)


The other option is to use Hash Tables. (You have to save (/hsave) before you exit mIRC, and load (/hload) them after you start mIRC.) Hash Tables are extremely useful, and are often a lot cleaner for this sort of thing.

Example:

hadd -m HealthPoints $nick 100

$hget(HealthPoints,$nick) would return "100"

hinc HealthPoints $nick

Would increase that number by 1 (so it'd be 101 if you checked it).

Hash tables generally allow you to handle it a little more cleanly, for example you could have a table "Game1" and various stats stored for each nick.