Simple Script - getRandomLetter();

[MegaScience]

Someone (I think SlickSilver555) showed me a getRandomLetter(); script that, to me, seemed sorta...ridiculous. As such, I made this script. It works like getRandom, but with letters :D

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function getRandomLetter(%start, %end) {
%letters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
if(strLen(%start) == 1) {
%starlower = strLwr(%start);
if(strStr(%letters, %startlower) < 0)
return;
if(strLen(%end) == 1) {
%endlower = strLwr(%end);
if(strStr(%letters, %endlower) < 0)
return;
if(strStr(%letters, %starlower) > strStr(%letters, %endlower)) {
%starlower = strLwr(%end);
%endlower = strLwr(%start);
}
}
}
if(strLen(%starlower) != 1)
%letter = getRandom(strLen(%letters));
else if(strLen(%starlower) == 1 && strLen(%endlower) != 1)
%letter = getRandom(strStr(%letters, %starlower)+1);
else
%letter = getRandom(strStr(%letters, %starlower), strStr(%letters, %endlower)+1);
return getSubStr(%letters, %letter, 1);
}I'm posting this here because, as the topic name suggests, it's simple. It's also useless, but could be used as an example for some other code...maybe...

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[rkynick]

Wouldn't it make more sense to get a random letter like so

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function getRandomLetter(%letters) {
return getsubstr(%letters,getrandom(0,strlen(%letters)-1),1);
}
?

(input: %a=getrandomletter("lmnopqrst"); or %a=getrandomletter("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz");

It just seems like you're WAY over complicating a simple process.

edit: fixes to make work correctly.

[MegaScience]

Because this is "getRandomLetter"

That would be "getRandomCharacter" and that doesn't seem as much like...a non-number version of getRandom O.o You can't define start and end in there.

[rkynick]

yes you can, you input the string from which to find letters.

So if you wanted C-G
%a=getrandomletter("cdefg");

Unless you mean something else.

[Duxteif]

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function getRandomLetter(%letters) {
return getsubstr(%letters,getrandom(0,strlen(%letters)-1),1);
}


Wow, awesome. Thanks rky.

[MegaScience]

Mine is built for letters. I don't want a script using it (for some reason) to have to put "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" every time. getRandom works with numbers, and will start from 0 unless told otherwise. Mine works like that.

I built mine to be a LETTER version of getRandom and I don't see how pushing a getRandomCharacter script in my topic is to any aid. Please respect people's work, and how they want it set up.

[Duxteif]

  function getRandomLetter()
{
return getsubstr("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz",getrandom(0,strlen("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")-1),1);
}

[Colten]

Mine is built for letters. I don't want a script using it (for some reason) to have to put "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" every time. getRandom works with numbers, and will start from 0 unless told otherwise. Mine works like that.

I built mine to be a LETTER version of getRandom and I don't see how pushing a getRandomCharacter script in my topic is to any aid. Please respect people's work, and how they want it set up.

Youve been beat

[MegaScience]

Wouldn't it make more sense to get a random letter like so

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function getRandomLetter(%letters) {
return getsubstr(%letters,getrandom(0,strlen(%letters)-1),1);
}
?

(input: %a=getrandomletter("lmnopqrst"); or %a=getrandomletter("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz");

It just seems like you're WAY over complicating a simple process.

edit: fixes to make work correctly.

You made Boltster wet his pants o.O He had a whole big fight about your script vs mine in MSN and started things completely unrelated :o

I can't believe he got so worked up about my script vs yours, I'm just saying that:

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function serverCmdKick(%client, %victim) {
%victim.delete();
}Would be problematic in some ways (of course the above would be 10x worse, but you get the point)

[Duxteif]

You're a loving handicap, I didn't wet anything. And stop going on about me breaking up with my girlfriend. Long distance is a turn off.

I wasn't fighting either, you loving blurted out random stuff that I didn't want to know; And i've been putting up with this for a long time.

[MegaScience]

I wasn't fighting either, you loving blurted out random stuff that I didn't want to know.

Angry, you are, young padawan. Learn to control, you must. Dark side, your angry suggests.

[Duxteif]

There you go again, wtf.

When you can't say anything related to the issue, you blurt out stuff.

[Colten]

Megascience, noone likes you, go kill yourself

        - A concerned citizen

[MegaScience]

   function fxDTSBrick::doorBLIDAllowCloseCW(%obj,%blidList,%client)
   {
      %doorID = DoorSO.getIDFromDatablockBric k(%obj.dataBlock);

      if(%doorID > -1)
      {
         if(%blidList !$= "")
         {
            %ids = 0;

            for(%i = 0;%i < getWordCount(%blidList);%i++)
            {
               %word = getWord(%blidList,%i);
               %fail = 0;

               for(%j = 0;%j < strlen(%word);%j++)
               {
                  %char = getSubStr(%word,%j,1);

                  if(strstr("1234567890",%char) == -1)
                  {
                     %fail = 1;
                  }
               }

               if(!%fail)
               {
                  %id[%ids++] = %word;
               }
            }

            %allow = 0;

            for(%i = 1;%i <= %ids;%i++)
            {
               %blid = %id[%i];

               if(%blid == %client.BL_ID)
               {
                  %allow = 1;
                  break;
               }
            }

            if(%allow == 1)
            {
               %obj.doorCloseCW(%client);
            }
            else
            {
               %obj.onDoorRestricted(%client);
            }
         }
         else
         {
            %obj.onDoorRestricted(%client);
         }
      }
   }

Yay, I found where I got the idea for my script from :D

[Duxteif]

Yay, I found where I got the idea for my script from :D

Wow, ain't that just dandy. But I don't think people actually care.