I've set up my game to let the player choose their own name at the start as per the documentation, however, the line used to put it in title case is not working.
Every time I start the game the player's name is displayed in lower case.
Code:
The player's forename is an indexed text that varies. The player's full name is an indexed text that varies.
When play begins:
now the command prompt is "What is your name? > ".;
no.
To decide whether collecting names:
if the command prompt is "What is your name? > ", yes;
no.
After reading a command when collecting names:
now the player's full name is "[the player's command in title case]";
now the player's forename is word number 1 in the player's command;
now the command prompt is "> ";
say "Thank you, [player's forename].[paragraph break]";
say "[banner text]";
move the player to the bed;
reject the player's command.
And here's what I'm getting out of it:
What is your name? > Squiggle Squiggleson
Thank you, squiggle.
The Children of Tragedy An Interactive Fiction by Luke Tooze
Release 1 / Serial number 131216 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib 6/12N) SD
squiggle's Bedroom (on the bed)
As you lie in your unmade bed - staring at the ceiling - you realise you should probably
get up and face the day.
I have tried many variations and Inform is allowing it every time but it doesn't actually change the case. Please help?
You set the case of variable player's full name but then set the forename based on the original input (player's command) which still has the original case. Change the second line in the after reading a command rule to:
now the player's forename is word number 1 in the player's full name;
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When I highlight any string of text in the R Studio console a rectangle is drawn around all other occurrences of this same string of text. How do I advance to the next occurrence of this arbitrary string of text? I'd like the keyboard shortcut.
CTRL-F3 is the closest shortcut I know. This takes the selected string of text, drops it into the Find dialog and jumps to the next occurrence (keep pressing CTRL-F3 to cycle through)
If you would like to move to the next occurrence of a word/variable and select it while also keeping the original selected, this command exists but does not have a default shortcut assigned to it.
The command is called 'Find and add next' (or 'Quick Add Next' in older versions). You can assign a shortcut to it by going into Preferences -> Code -> Modify_Keyboard_Shortcuts. I use Alt+Cmd+Right (on a Mac) as that is an unassigned key binding.
You can see bellow I have used the command twice to select three of the four instances.
On a Mac, I use command+f to call Find with a selected string and then use control+g to move onto the next match.
This needs to be over 30 characters, but only needs 2:
F3
I'm coming from a Java/.NET background and trying to learn ABL but the difference in structure and the limited information on the internet is making it hard. What I want to do is import data from a text file which is in the following format:
john smith 52 ceo
...
line by line, and take the different parts based on the position of the character. For example, positions 1-10 are for the first name, 10-20 second name and so on... Do I have to use entry for that? If so can someone more experienced give an example how to do it cause I'm quite confused. Then I need to add a record for each line to a temp-table I have created called tt-employee. How do I go about doing that?
I apologise if my question is a bit vague but as I said, I am new to this so I'm still figuring things out.
If space is a delimiter you can use the IMPORT statement.
DEFINE TEMP-TABLE tt-employee NO-UNDO
FIELD firstname AS CHARACTER
FIELD lastname AS CHARACTER
FIELD age AS INTEGER
FIELD empTitle AS CHARACTER.
INPUT FROM c:\temp\indata.dat.
REPEAT:
CREATE tt-employee.
IMPORT DELIMITER " " tt-employee.
END.
INPUT CLOSE.
However if there isn't a delimiter but rather a fixed record with (as you mention) you can do something like this (error checking and correct record lengths needs to be applied).
/* Skipping temp-table definition - copy-paste from above */
DEFINE VARIABLE cRow AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO.
INPUT FROM c:\temp\indata.dat.
REPEAT:
IMPORT UNFORMATTED cRow.
/* You could replace 0 with a higher number that qualifies a record so
SUBSTRING doesn't return an error if reading past end of line */
IF LENGTH(cRow) > 0 THEN DO:
CREATE tt-employee.
ASSIGN
tt-employee.firstname = SUBSTRING(cRow, 1, 10)
tt-employee.lastname = SUBSTRING(cRow, 11, 10)
tt-employee.age = INTEGER(SUBSTRING(cRow, 21, 2))
tt-employee.empTitle = SUBSTRING(cRow, 23, 10) NO-ERROR.
END.
END.
INPUT CLOSE.
There are several places on the web to look for OpenEdge information:
Official knowledgebase - http://knowledgebase.progress.com/
Official community - https://community.progress.com/?Redirected=true
More communities - http://www.progresstalk.com/ and http://oehive.org/
I've got text like this in one of my sqlite table columns:
Mantas are found in temperate, subtropical and tropical waters. Both species are pelagic; M. birostris migrates across open oceans, singly or in groups, while M. alfredi tends to be resident and coastal. They are filter feeders and eat large quantities of zooplankton, which they swallow with their open mouths as they swim. Gestation lasts over a year, producing live pups.
Mantas may visit cleaning stations for the removal of parasites. Like whales, they breach, for unknown reasons.
The last two lines are broken from the previous by either a \r or \n. I want to be able to see the actual value of \r or \n in the shell output of of the column. Any ideas?
There doesn't seem to be any way to directly do this in the SQLite shell, but you can use .output <file> to output the result to a file, then use a text or hex editor to see what the line endings are.
Learning AppleScript I'm trying to practice and I wanted to see if I could get the count of a class in an .xhtml file.
In my BBEdit project I set a variable for the project with:
set this_project to file of project document 1
made sure to target all the .xhtml files with:
set total_xhtml to {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false, returning results:true, filter:{ID:"111232452", filter_mode:and_mode, filter_terms:{{operand:"xhtml", field:«constant ****FnSf», operator:op_is_equal}}}}
but when I try to count the class for each file I'm stumped..
I did try:
set varCount to count class=\"foobar\"" of (this_project in total_xhtml)
If I try set varCount to count class=\"foobar\"" it returns a number in the AppleScript Editor but how can I get the full count for each file in a project?
If I understand what you're asking, you want to find out how many times your class is listed in your different .xhtml files.
If that's what you're trying to accomplish, the below is a working example that should do what you're looking for.
on run
try
set foundItems to do shell script "grep -ri 'yourClassName' " & quoted form of "/Path/to/Your/directory"
on error
set foundItems to ""
end try
set oldDelims to AppleScript's text item delimiters -- save their current state
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return} -- declare new delimiters
set tempList to every text item of foundItems
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelims -- restore them
set foundCount to count of tempList
end run
Just realized I never accepted an answer to my question and I wanted to close out this Q&A. I didn't choose the provided answer because text item delimiters were firing an incorrect count from the file and I wanted an approach that didn't call on a do shell.
In AppleScript and BBEdit if you reference the Dictionary there is FIND:
and with a repeat loop I was able to step through each occurrence of class="foobar":
## beginning of file
select insertion point before first character of text document text document 1
set countClass to 0
repeat
## find pattern
set findClass to find "class=\"foobar\"" searching in text 1 of text document text document 1 options {options} with selecting match
## exit after no more patterns
if not found of findClass then exit repeat
## increment for every occurrence
set countClass to countClass + 1
end repeat
## return total count of pattern
return countClass
With the above repeat I was able to step through each file and total up every occurrence of class foobar. Hope this helps the next person.
I have a textpad file that has rows of text. For e.g.
Cat: Meaning - animal. The cat ran up the house
Rat: Meaning- rodent. The rat lives in the borough and feeds on leftovers
Word 3: Description
Word 4: Description
I have many such record in my file. I want to insert a line break at the end of every record for proper presentation. Doing it manually is tedious. Please help if you know an automated process to insert line break.
You can quickly do this by using a feature called "Regular Expressions" to find and add empty lines.
Open up the Find/Replace (Search menu > Replace)
In the "Find what" field, type the following: (^.+$)\n(^.+$)
In the "Replace with" field, type the following: \1\n\n\2
Tick the "Regular expression" checkbox
Click the Replace All button at least twice, but perhaps 3 times, until you get the message Cannot find the Regular Expression
Untick the "Regular expression" checkbox
Close the Replace dialog
Confirm the file is formatted as you are expecting
Save the file.
You can write a simple C# prgram that uses a loop that adds this code after every line :
But first add the namespace using System.Enviorment
Enviorment.NewLine;
If you have any more trouble i'll help with some code to get started
Open up the Find/Replace (Search menu > Replace)
In the "Find what" field, type the following so that the replace occurs at the end of each line: $
In the "Replace with" field, type the following. Note each 'n' represents a <return>. In this instance, I added a return at the end of a SQL statement, the word 'GO' on the next line and another <return>: \n\GO\n
Started with text file containing:
select * from <tablename>
select * from <tablename>
Ended with text file containing:
select * from <tablename
GO
select * from <tablename>
GO
Hope that helps.
from your text it is difficult to understand what you are intending to do. I'll give you some questions. The answers will help others to help you.
Do you really mean textpad as the product from company helios in UK or do you use this word as a general word for a class of tools (like notepad - but there is a general definition AND the tool as part of Windows).
Your file hase line breaks yet. You don't see them, but in the file itself they are present (in Unix systems line feed (hex code 0A) or in the windows world carriage return followed by line feed (hex code 0D 0A)).
Or would you like to publish your text in HTML? So you have to put the necessary tags around each line like paragraph, line break, list item etc.?