A couple of development / style questions...

[DeathSpiral]

Howdy all-
I'm new here, did a bit of searching and havn't come up with what I'm looking for. Just a couple questions about MQ# (as I saw someone call it) and, for lack of a better term, 'style'...

First off, is there any upper limit on the number of variables, timers, or arrays that you can have? 1 byte unsigned int (255), 2 bytes unsigned int (short int) (65,535)?

Next off, is there any functionality available that can tell me how many items are in an array? IE, we set a(0,0), a(0,1), and a(0,2) - any way to determine that a(0) has 3 items in it?

Also... any functionality similar to a regular expression, or anything I can do character swapping with in a string?

It doesn't look like it right now, but are there any plans to support &&'s and ||'s in /if checks? And nested? /if (("$char(name)"~~"$p0") && ("somestring"~~"$p1")) ?

Also, on 'style'... are there any 'preferred' ranges for variables? IE, variables that should always be function-local v90-v99, money related v50-v59, etc? There seems to be some commonality between scripts, but I havn't seen anything clearly defined... Granted, that would be required to be adhered to, but would make portability a little better (imho, atleast...)

Well, thanks in advance. =) Looking forward to 'working' with you. =)

[S_B_R]

I was just thinking about requesting && and || aswell. They would be So helpful.

[L124RD]

Salutations,
for v#,p# and a(_,#) the hashes have a limit of 100. The underscore also has a limit of 100 (for both of them it is 0-99). the p# limit can be changed with

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#define MAX_MACROVARS 100

(this is the default) and the v# limit can be changed with

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#define MAX_STACKVARS 100

. Don't know about array support, but if you do this:

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/varset v0 0
:loop
  /if "$a(0,$v0)"!="" {
    /varadd v0
    /goto :loop
  } else /if n $v0==0 {
     /varset v0 -1 
  }

v0 should come out as the number of thingies in the set (-1 if there is nothing in it)[/code]

[powerspike]

OoO thanks for that liz it should help abit

and it looks like you went a bit to [/code] happy as well

[DeathSpiral]

for v#,p# and a(_,#) the hashes have a limit of 100. The underscore also has a limit of 100 (for both of them it is 0-99). the p# limit can be changed with

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#define MAX_MACROVARS 100

(this is the default) and the v# limit can be changed with

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#define MAX_STACKVARS 100

.

Testing has shown that in the default copy downloaded, the upper limit for p# variables is 5... *goes to grab the source, make some changes, and recompile...*