MUD Coding

tehScarecrow · 08-02-2004, 05:28 AM

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forums and a beginning programmer trying to program my first mud. I'm using lpc and the merentha mudlib with the mudOS driver on a linux system.

I have a couple questions. First, does anyone know of an active lpc coders forum? As I realize this isn't the best place to ask an lpc question, but I'm hoping the answer is general enough that I can get a good answer

Anyways, my problem is how with programming languages " is a commonly used symbol. Thus, I haven't been able to get the "says" in my mud working the way I'd like. Currently, when someone says blah, it comes out as;

Someone says: Blah

When what I want is...

Someone says, "Blah."

Anyone able to help? =)

Ogma · 08-02-2004, 05:52 AM

In LPC as in C, you can escape the quotes by preceeding it with a backslash.
So, \" will give you a quote literal in the middle of a string. There are a
few other escape codes used in LPC, most frequently \n for linefeed and \i for tab.

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08-02-2004, 05:28 AM	#1
tehScarecrow Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 66	Hi everyone, I'm new to the forums and a beginning programmer trying to program my first mud. I'm using lpc and the merentha mudlib with the mudOS driver on a linux system. I have a couple questions. First, does anyone know of an active lpc coders forum? As I realize this isn't the best place to ask an lpc question, but I'm hoping the answer is general enough that I can get a good answer Anyways, my problem is how with programming languages " is a commonly used symbol. Thus, I haven't been able to get the "says" in my mud working the way I'd like. Currently, when someone says blah, it comes out as; Someone says: Blah When what I want is... Someone says, "Blah." Anyone able to help? =)

08-02-2004, 05:52 AM	#2
Ogma Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Home MUD: DartMUD Posts: 86	In LPC as in C, you can escape the quotes by preceeding it with a backslash. So, \" will give you a quote literal in the middle of a string. There are a few other escape codes used in LPC, most frequently \n for linefeed and \i for tab.

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Coding question with " in says