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$timer wildcard support? #218925 28/02/10 03:16 AM
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 116 Amsterdam, The Netherlands K Knoeki OP Vogon poet
OP Knoeki Vogon poet K Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 116 Amsterdam, The Netherlands	It'd be nice, if not already possible (I haven't seen anything about it) if we could reference timers based on a wildcard. I suck at explaing it like this, so let me show examples: $timer(bla., 0) - would return the number of timers that match bla. $timer(bla., 1) - would return info for the first timer matching bla. I hope I'm not overlooking this if it's in the manual...

Re: $timer wildcard support? Knoeki #218926 28/02/10 05:10 AM
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,168 Ontario, Canada R RusselB Hoopy frood
RusselB Hoopy frood R Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 7,168 Ontario, Canada	This makes sense to me.

Re: $timer wildcard support? Knoeki #218932 28/02/10 02:47 PM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA R Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood R Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,061 MA, USA	Sounds good to me. With a lot of timers, this can make it easier to check specific ones when testing scripts.

Re: $timer wildcard support? Knoeki #218948 28/02/10 09:08 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,641 Montreal, QC, Canada A argv0 Hoopy frood
argv0 Hoopy frood A Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,641 Montreal, QC, Canada	Until it's added (if it's added), you can do: Code: alias wtimer { var %i = 1, %n = 0 while ($timer(%i)) { var %timer = $v1 if ($1 iswm %timer) { inc %n if ($2 == %n) return %timer } inc %i } if ($2 == 0) return %n } //echo -a $wtimer(bla., 0) //echo -a $wtimer(bla., 1) Not likely to have any real performance issues unless you have hundreds of timers running (which is likely to be a performance issue in itself).

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