ReplaceText still around?

ID:139977
 
Jun 27 2010, 6:01 pm
Code:
mob
    proc
        emoticon()
            var/list/emoticon=(":)",";)",":D",":(",":x",":P"," B-)",":|",":-$","X_X","ROFL","BYE","HMMMM","TIMEOUT","LOSER",":-O")
            var/T as text
            if(T=="[emoticon]")
                if(":)")
                    ReplaceText("[T]",":)",'smile.gif')
                if(";)")
                    ReplaceText("[T]",";)",'winking.gif')
                if(":D")
                    ReplaceText("[T]",":D",'cheesing.gif')
                if(":(")
                    ReplaceText("[T]",":(",'sad.gif')
                if(":x")
                    ReplaceText("[T]",":x",'heart.gif')
                if(":P")
                    ReplaceText("[T]",":P",'tounge.gif')
                if("B-)")
                    ReplaceText("[T]","B-)",'cool.gif')
                if(":|")
                    ReplaceText("[T]",":|",'straight face.gif')
                if(":-$")
                    ReplaceText("[T]",":-$",'dont tell.gif')
                if("X_X")
                    ReplaceText("[T]","X_X",'dont want too see.gif')
                if("ROFL")
                    ReplaceText("[T]","ROFL",'ROFL.gif')
                if("BYE")
                    ReplaceText("[T]","BYE",'wave.gif')
                if("HMMMM")
                    ReplaceText("[T]","HMMMM",'thinking.gif')
                if("TIMEOUT")
                    ReplaceText("[T]","TIMEOUT",'timeout.gif')
                if("LOSER")
                    ReplaceText("[T]","LOSER",'loser.gif')
                if(":-O")
                    ReplaceText("[T]",":-O",'suprised.gif')
            else
                return


Problem description:
Is ReplaceText still around or did it get removed after the update?

Jun 27 2010, 7:29 pm
NightSparta wrote:
Code:
> mob
>   proc
>       emoticon()
>           var/list/emoticon=(":)",";)",":D",":(",":x",":P"," B-)",":|",":-$","X_X","ROFL","BYE","HMMMM","TIMEOUT","LOSER",":-O")
>           var/T as text
>           if(T=="[emoticon]")
>               if(":)")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]",":)",'smile.gif')
>               if(";)")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]",";)",'winking.gif')
>               if(":D")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]",":D",'cheesing.gif')
>               if(":(")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]",":(",'sad.gif')
>               if(":x")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]",":x",'heart.gif')
>               if(":P")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]",":P",'tounge.gif')
>               if("B-)")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]","B-)",'cool.gif')
>               if(":|")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]",":|",'straight face.gif')
>               if(":-$")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]",":-$",'dont tell.gif')
>               if("X_X")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]","X_X",'dont want too see.gif')
>               if("ROFL")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]","ROFL",'ROFL.gif')
>               if("BYE")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]","BYE",'wave.gif')
>               if("HMMMM")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]","HMMMM",'thinking.gif')
>               if("TIMEOUT")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]","TIMEOUT",'timeout.gif')
>               if("LOSER")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]","LOSER",'loser.gif')
>               if(":-O")
>                   ReplaceText("[T]",":-O",'suprised.gif')
>           else
>               return
>

Problem description:
Is ReplaceText still around or did it get removed after the update?

Do you know what this does? Your list serves no purpose although it looks like it should. You could probably get rid of it completely without a problem. Also, ReplaceText() was never a feature of DM.

However, you can fix that by including the library it was once contained in or making your own little ReplaceText() function. If it goes like this:
ReplaceText(string, find, replace), then you'd want to use findtextEx() to find the needle and copytext() to replace it. Think along these lines:

var/length = lentext(find)
var/pos = findtextEx(string, find)
string = copytext(string, 1, pos)+replace+copytext(string, pos+length)