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[Guest]

Hello,

Well I was testing the Lag check plugin (made by Explody?) and wondered if there was a way to change how the string was handled after the player made the request. For example, lets say I was using the name "Deathwish" and I typed in !lagcheck Death it won't find the player "Deathwish". For the command to work a player has to type in the full name. I wanted to change this so that just by typing !lagcheck Death it would search the players in the current arena and match it to "Deathwish". Also, if there was a player named "DeathAxe" that's the player would get lag checked (alphabetical order). Basically the bot would have to check each string and compare them. I was just wondering if there was a function already created within merv to handle this. So far every plugin I've seen that allows a player to check another players' status, requires the requesting player to type in the whole name instead of just a part of it. I've rambled on for awhile, it's 4am and I'm tired. Any help would be appreciated. Please excuse any grammatical errors.


Thanks

[Maverick]

First things first, you should try to get/find the source to the plugin first - you aren't able to change anything if you haven't got the source files.

Not alot of plugins do matches with partial playernames, I'm pretty sure you have to make it yourself if you want it (not that much work though).
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[Samapico]

If you can find the code for it, you could use this method I made and use in my stuff:

Code: Show/Hide Player* FindPlayerByName(char *name, bool exactmatch, _linkedlist <Player>* list); int FirstDifferentCharacter(char *string1, char *string2); Player* FindPlayerByName(char *name, bool exactmatch, _linkedlist <Player>* list) {    _listnode <Player> *parse = list->head;   //set to first link of the player linked list    Player* bestmatchplayer = NULL;    int bestmatchlength = 0;        String nametofind = name;    nametofind.lcase();    while (parse)   //parse will be NULL when we reach the last link    {       Player *p = parse->item;   //item is the actual data stored in the link       String pname = (String) p->name;       pname.lcase();       if (pname == nametofind)          return p;       if (!exactmatch)       {          int firstdifferent = FirstDifferentCharacter(nametofind, pname);          if (bestmatchlength < firstdifferent)          {             bestmatchlength = firstdifferent;             bestmatchplayer = p;          }       }       parse = parse->next;   //set parse to the next link    }        return bestmatchplayer; } //Zero-based index of the first different character in both string. //If both strings are the same, will return the length of the string. int FirstDifferentCharacter(char *string1, char *string2) {    int i;    for (i = 0 ; string1[i] != '\0' && string2[i] != '\0' && tolower(string1[i]) == tolower(string2[i]) ; i++)    {    }    return i; }

Just make sure you check that the return value != NULL before using it
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[Cyan~Fire]

Hey Samapico, here's some faster code:

Code: Show/Hide int FirstDifferentCharacter(const char *string1, const char *string2) {    int i;    for (i = 0 ; *string1 != '\0' && *string2 != '\0' && tolower(*string1) == tolower(*string2) ; i++, string1++, string2++)    {    }    return i; }

Runs faster (or maybe the same after the compiler has optimized it). Just a hint for future iterative algorithms you write.
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[Guest]

Mav: I do have the source.

Sam: I thought I might have to write that part myself.

Cyan: Thanks, I'll try your function first.

[Samapico]

[Bak]

Code: Show/Hide Player* FindPlayerByName(const char *startsWith, _linkedlist <Player>* list) {    Player* rv = NULL;    int len = (int)strlen(startsWith);    for (_listnode <Player> *parse = list->head; parse; parse = parse->next)    {       Player* p = parse->item;       if (strnicmp(p->name,startsWith,len) == 0)       {          rv = p;          if (stricmp(p->name,startsWith) == 0)             break;       }    }        return rv; }

Returns NULL if no player starts with the requested substring.
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[Maverick]

Guest, can you attach the source here for any future reference if people are searching for it?

[Guest]

Done.

[Guest]

Also for some reason when I compile the plugin right from the zip I get errors.

Error 3 error C2065: 'ifstream' : undeclared identifier c:\.....\mervbot\src\lagbot\spawn.cpp 60

Error 4 error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'file' c:\...\spawn.cpp 60

Error 5 error C3861: 'file': identifier not found c:\....\spawn.cpp 60

Error 6 error C2228: left of '.getline' must have class/struct/union c:\....\spawn.cpp 62

Error 7 fatal error C1903: unable to recover from previous error(s); stopping compilation c:\...\spawn.cpp 62

[Guest]

I forgot to add that it was using #include <fstream.h> which is outdated so I changed it to #include <fstream> and it gave me the above errors. BTW, it wasn't compiling even before I made this minor change...

Anyone know exactly why?

[Bak]

after you do "#include <fstream>" you might need to do "using namespace std;"

[Guest]

Thanks Bak, that did the trick.

[blue monday]

Would you be able to post the new one you made? I would love to only have to type half the name.