Re: [newbie] listening note programming question

• Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 13:43:24 PDT
• From:
  Stacey Greenstein <sg8734@acs.brockport.edu>
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On Thu, 9 May 1996, D. Jason Nolan wrote:
> overboard.  I took $note and added a verb :tell with the string
> this:set_text({@this.text, dobjstr});
> 
> This added anything said onto the note.
> 
> But now I want to add the names of the speaker.  So I tried:
> 
> this:set_text({this.text, tostr(player.name, " -> ", argstr)});
                 ^
                 |
You left out the @ - the 'unravel' operator. Without it, you copy the 
exact value of this.text, including the outermost '{' and '}'. With it, 
you copy the value of this.text, stripping away the outermost '{' and '}'.

> 
> Which works, but ONLY gives me the last thing that someone said prefaced
> by their name, and a cryptic {list}

Probably you are converting this.text to a string... most string 
functions barf on the imbedded list structure and just return {list}.


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