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Arrays and Removal
I'm modeling a haunted house exploration after the board game Betrayal at House on the Hill.
There's a random stack of tiles. Some tiles (Dusty Hallway) can be used in the basement, or on the ground floor, or on the upper floor. Others (Underground Lake) can only appear on one specific floor.
What I've done so far - which works well for a single floor - is create an array of the tiles possible for each given floor, using the (shuffled:) macro, and then use the (move:) macro to grab the 1st item over and over. This does a nice job of simulating the process of shuffling the tiles and then grabbing the top tile.
The trouble is those multi-floor tiles. When I find that Dusty Hallway on the ground floor I don't want it repeated upstairs.
Is there a way to remove a single item from an array, by name? I know you can use "-" to make an array return a reduced value, and it seems to remove all instances of that value (the example on Harlowe is (a:1,1,2,3,4,5) - (a:1,2) (is (a:3,4,5))) but the thing it returns seems to be a string, not another array.
My sample code for proof-of-concept before I try it with 40+ tiles:
(set: $food to (shuffled: "Apple", "Banana", "Carrot"))
(set: $altfood to (shuffled: "Apple", "Banana", "Carrot", "Daikon", "Elderberry", "Fig"))
(move: $food's 1st into $foodOne)(set: $temp to (a: $foodOne))
(set: $altfood to (array: $altfood - $temp))
(move: $food's 1st into $foodTwo)(set: $temp to (a: $foodTwo))
(set: $altfood to (array: $altfood - $temp))
(move: $food's 1st into $foodThree)(set: $temp to (a: $foodThree))
(set: $altfood to (array: $altfood - $temp))
(move: $altfood's 1st into $foodFour)
(move: $altfood's 1st into $foodFive)
(move: $altfood's 1st into $foodSix)
First is $foodOne, second is $foodTwo, third is $foodThree.
Fourth is $foodFour, fifth is $foodFive, sixth is $foodSix.
Here's the output for that code:
I can't find a '1st' data name in an array►
I can't find a '1st' data name in an array►
First is Apple, second is Banana, third is Carrot.
Fourth is Fig,Carrot,Banana,Elderberry,Daikon, fifth is 0, sixth is 0.
It looks like it's making $altfood into a single-item array with the contents of the entire array in its one slot as a string. That string gets moved into the $foodFour variable and then the other 2 variables get left in the lurch.
There's a random stack of tiles. Some tiles (Dusty Hallway) can be used in the basement, or on the ground floor, or on the upper floor. Others (Underground Lake) can only appear on one specific floor.
What I've done so far - which works well for a single floor - is create an array of the tiles possible for each given floor, using the (shuffled:) macro, and then use the (move:) macro to grab the 1st item over and over. This does a nice job of simulating the process of shuffling the tiles and then grabbing the top tile.
The trouble is those multi-floor tiles. When I find that Dusty Hallway on the ground floor I don't want it repeated upstairs.
Is there a way to remove a single item from an array, by name? I know you can use "-" to make an array return a reduced value, and it seems to remove all instances of that value (the example on Harlowe is (a:1,1,2,3,4,5) - (a:1,2) (is (a:3,4,5))) but the thing it returns seems to be a string, not another array.
My sample code for proof-of-concept before I try it with 40+ tiles:
(set: $food to (shuffled: "Apple", "Banana", "Carrot"))
(set: $altfood to (shuffled: "Apple", "Banana", "Carrot", "Daikon", "Elderberry", "Fig"))
(move: $food's 1st into $foodOne)(set: $temp to (a: $foodOne))
(set: $altfood to (array: $altfood - $temp))
(move: $food's 1st into $foodTwo)(set: $temp to (a: $foodTwo))
(set: $altfood to (array: $altfood - $temp))
(move: $food's 1st into $foodThree)(set: $temp to (a: $foodThree))
(set: $altfood to (array: $altfood - $temp))
(move: $altfood's 1st into $foodFour)
(move: $altfood's 1st into $foodFive)
(move: $altfood's 1st into $foodSix)
First is $foodOne, second is $foodTwo, third is $foodThree.
Fourth is $foodFour, fifth is $foodFive, sixth is $foodSix.
Here's the output for that code:
I can't find a '1st' data name in an array►
I can't find a '1st' data name in an array►
First is Apple, second is Banana, third is Carrot.
Fourth is Fig,Carrot,Banana,Elderberry,Daikon, fifth is 0, sixth is 0.
It looks like it's making $altfood into a single-item array with the contents of the entire array in its one slot as a string. That string gets moved into the $foodFour variable and then the other 2 variables get left in the lurch.
Comments
{(set: $food to (shuffled: "Apple", "Banana", "Carrot")) (set: $altfood to (shuffled: "Apple", "Banana", "Carrot", "Daikon", "Elderberry", "Fig")) }''Initialize'' food: $food altfood: $altfood ''Move 1st from food to foodOne, delete temp from altfood''{ (move: $food's 1st into $foodOne)(set: $temp to (a: $foodOne)) (set: $altfood to $altfood - $temp)} foodOne: $foodOne food: $food altfood: $altfood ''Move 1st from food to foodTwo, delete temp from altfood''{ (move: $food's 1st into $foodTwo)(set: $temp to (a: $foodTwo)) (set: $altfood to $altfood - $temp)} foodTwo: $foodTwo food: $food altfood: $altfood ''Move 1st from food to foodThree, delete temp from altfood''{ (move: $food's 1st into $foodThree)(set: $temp to (a: $foodThree)) (set: $altfood to $altfood - $temp)} foodThree: $foodThree food: $food altfood: $altfood {(move: $altfood's 1st into $foodFour) (move: $altfood's 1st into $foodFive) (move: $altfood's 1st into $foodSix) }foodFour: $foodFour foodFive: $foodFive foodSix: $foodSix altfood: $altfood First is $foodOne, second is $foodTwo, third is $foodThree. Fourth is $foodFour, fifth is $foodFive, sixth is $foodSix.While a syntax error makes me feel like an idiot for a couple seconds, it's deeply gratifying to find out that the working solution is also easier to write than what I had.