Batch edit?
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How can one do @edit (all offspring of parent obect)/attribute=string,newstring ?
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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Are you using mux? You could do an @dol and edit the children() of the thing.
So something like:
@dol children(<DBRef of Parent>) = @edit ##/<wild-attr> = <search>,<replace>
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@Derp
That should work for penn too. -
Yep, it's PennMUSH. Thanks.
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What does the ## substitute for in your line?
edit: Oh, wait, nothing? Just itself?
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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Yeah. It's the substitution symbol for a list element, which is generated from the children() function.
Edit to Add: I know nothing about Penn, so I'm trusting Bobo that it works the same. My experience is strictly limited to mux.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@Derp
This is one of those instances where it's exactly the same, like about 95% of MUSHcode between Penn and MUX.@il-volpe
The ## is the denotation for the list you generated with @dolist..Specifically for penn, you should:
@dol [children(DBREF)]=@edit ##/attr=search,replace
IE
@dol children(Snarfblatt)=@edit ##/desc=Flounder,Scuttle
that would edit all the children of the Snarfblatt object's @desc, replacing all instances of Flounder with Scuttle.
What are you specifically trying to edit, if i may ask?
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Bugger. It doesn't work, because the parent I've in mind is actually the exit parent, and MUSH doesn't treat it like it does other parents....
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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@il-volpe
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Eliminate a repeated error in exit messages. And know how to do this sort of thing so that later, when I set it up, I can change room descs to reflect seasons.
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Is this for every exit? If so, you can do:
@dol search(type = exit) = @edit ##/attribute = search,replace
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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Is the message on the parent? If so, you just need to fix the parent.
If it's on individual exits, you'll need to
@dol [lsearch(all,type,exit)]=@edit ##/attr=search,replace
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Ahh! Thanks. Naw, the message isn't on the parent. It's not on every exit, either, but if I search for it and it's not there, well, it won't replace it, so all good.
"... you'll find the story doesn’t end how you think, and the most important characters aren’t who you expect.” - Penny 40 to Derek, The Magicians S04E07 ‘The Side Effect’
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I'm just gonna defer to Bobo here, because I keep forgetting you're using Penn.
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@il-volpe
My advice when using parents is to default all the messages to the parent; that way, if you fuck something up, it's a single piece of fix. Now, your messages will all be samey (but honestly, sometimes conformity across the board is fine, it makes things more easy to follow). -
That's sensible, but in this case I get some mood and RP mileage out of the various messages. With your help, this was an easy fix, and it wasn't a necessary one really. And it's given me another bit o' skill, and that's good to have. Thanks, folks!
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Glad I could be of somewhat limited assistance.
