Checking to see if pet exists

Stogar · Post by **Stogar** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:03 pm

Does this look correct

  /if $char(pet)==1 /pet attack

Just an example that if pet exists then tell it to attack.

Tuffy · Post by **Tuffy** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:29 pm

I think it should be like this:

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/if $char(pet)==1{
 /pet attack
}

I've been wronge a lot here lately though.

Falco72 · Post by **Falco72** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 4:31 pm

Are you sure? I think $char(pet) reports the id of the pet if it exist or 0 if not. So in your example the code should be:

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 /if $char(pet)!=0 /pet attack

Scrime · Post by **Scrime** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:04 am

I prefer the numeric comparison

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/if n $char(pet)!=0 ...

Stogar · Post by **Stogar** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 9:39 am

Actually I have see both in different macros, and is why I asked. I tested mine when I got home and it seemed to work erratically.

I added it to the hunter.mac to test in the attack sub. Ended up just putting a /pet attack after the /attack on. Not very creative but it worked.

I did do alot of looking at necrofarm.mac that I think scrime originally wrote, but I haven't found a conversion for. I have a necro and a shaman I'd like to have the pet do the grunt work of farming.

Thanks for the input.

Scrime · Post by **Scrime** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 12:08 pm

Yeah, I need to convert that macro. I'm a slacker. *hangs his head in shame*

Mckorr · Post by **Mckorr** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 12:54 pm

/if $char(pet)==1

is the same thing as

/if $char(pet)!=0

In the first you are saying "if TRUE", and in the second you are saying "if NOT FALSE". Logically they are the same statement.... well, in boolean logic anyway :)

Scrime · Post by **Scrime** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:03 pm

$char(pet) returns the spawn id of the pet though, so /if $char(pet)==1 is not true unless the pet's spawn id is indeed 1.

In this case $char(pet)==1 is not the boolean logical invert of $char(pet)!=0

Mckorr · Post by **Mckorr** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:09 pm

Ah, gotcha. Can you tell I never play a pet class?