Aggravated - HELP (please :) )

[sfisque]

Originally Posted by sonicintuition

So ....I'll hail the NPC with a rogue, and get "You are not a caster! You are a caster!" ....

sub EVENT_SAY
{
if($text=~/hail/i && ($class eq 'Warrior' || $class eq 'Rogue'))
{
quest::say("You are not a caster!");
}
if($text=~/hail/i && ($class ne 'Warrior' || $class ne 'Rogue'))
{
quest::say("You are a caster!");
}
}

Sonic

broken logic. on the "second" if, if i'im a rogue, it will fire because, you're asking a different question:

if $text contains "hail"

and

the $class is either ( not warrior ) or (not rogue)

which is true if you're a rogue ( rogue != warrior ).

converse statements (ones containing "negations" ) are usually tricky and require some care. you're easiest bet would be to construct it like follows:

if( contains "hail" )
{
if( class1 ) { do something }
elsif (class2 ) { do something else }
elsif( class3 ) { do something else }
...
else { do the other thing }
}


hope this helps.

== sfisque

[Angelox]

sfisque;
Are "if" and "elsif" any different? will Perl look at all the "ifs" or all the "elsifs"? or will it always stop at the first "if" or "elsif" once the it finds a match?

[WildcardX]

in a if...elsif..else construct, only ONE of the specificied conditions can be true.. so it will evaluate the IF first and then if that IF isn't TRUE, perl moves on to the first ELSIF.. if that is also not true then every elseif next is evaluated one at a time and in order until either one of the elsif are true OR it finally reaches an ELSE clause, if one is present.. Hope this is readable.. lol

[sfisque]

Originally Posted by Angelox

sfisque;
Are "if" and "elsif" any different? will Perl look at all the "ifs" or all the "elsifs"? or will it always stop at the first "if" or "elsif" once the it finds a match?

think of if/elsif...else blocks as the perl version of a C switch statement, where each if/elsif is analogous to a case X: and else is the default: subblock.

== sfisque

[sonicintuition]

You people lost me ... Anyway what I did works, I'll try the other one that sfisque posted after that ..see if that works, if it does ...yay, the file will be smaller

Regards,
Sonic