Solved Store and use last player message.

[Xikini]

TFS 0.3.7

Trying to store last message of player and use it to determine next message by npc.
terrible example incoming..

elseif msgcontains(msg, "number") and talkState[talkUser] == 1 then
   selfSay("What number under 1000?", cid)
   talkState[talkUser] = 2
   local playerMessage = ""
elseif msgcontains(msg, "ANYTHING OTHER THEN A NUMBER") and talkState[talkUser] == 2 then
   selfSay("That is not an accepted number. Please choose a numeric number.", cid)

elseif msgcontains(msg, "Any numeric number over 1000") and talkState[talkUser] == 2 then
   selfSay("The number you have chosen is too high. Choose another.", cid)

elseif msgcontains(msg, "Any numeric number") and talkState[talkUser] == 2 then
   selfSay("The number you have chosen is ".. number ..".", cid)
   talkState[talkUser] = 3

I've been googling and searching around for a few hours and not having much luck figuring out what to search for to get this to work.

If anyone knows what I should be searching for, or would like to provide an example, I would definitely appreciate it.

Thanks!

Xikini

 

[Limos]

msg is the message of the player.
To store it you can add it to a table.
For example:

local xmsg = {} -- add this above the function, like talkState

Then to store the msg.

xmsg[cid] = msg

Then you can use xmsg[cid] after that incase a player should say something else but still the old message should be used.

If you want to check if a message is a number or a specific one, you can use tonumber.

if tonumber(msg) then -- checks if the message is a number

if tonumber(msg) >= 1000 then -- checks if the number is 1000 or higher

 

[Codex NG]

Or you can use a regular expression

local msg = "You are 1001 times smarter than me"
local cid = 1
local xmsg = {}
xmsg[cid] = msg
-- this will check if the string contains a number and if it does retrieve the portion that is a number string
-- and convert it to a real number to compare it to 1000
if tonumber( string.match(xmsg[cid], '[0-9]+') ) >= 1000 then
   print(msg)
end
-- output : You are 1001 times smarter than me

To learn about patterns in lua
http://lua-users.org/wiki/PatternsTutorial

Cool I just found this site, I'm gonna read it myself
This will teach you about regular expressions.
http://regexone.com/

 

[Xikini]

Without both of your explanations I would've been lost.