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How to limit the amount of characters a user can enter

KhaloodxpKhaloodxp
in Help! with 2.0
(I'm using twine 2.0, Harlowe) Basically I want users to be able to choose their own names so this code seemed like a good idea: 
(set: $name to (prompt: "What's your name?"))

name: $name
the problem there is no limit to how many characters the name is (it gets messy) and I don't have the slightest idea how to do so say I want it to be a max of 16 characters without a min

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  • DeadshotDeadshot
    I can't help you there, but you could use some variables after they enter the name. Like, I don't know if this would be possible, but you could do an (if:) statement, asking if $name is bigger than sixteen, and if it is, then ask them to redo it?
  • KhaloodxpKhaloodxp
    edited September 2016
    Deadshot wrote: »
    I can't help you there, but you could use some variables after they enter the name. Like, I don't know if this would be possible, but you could do an (if:) statement, asking if $name is bigger than sixteen, and if it is, then ask them to redo it?
    thought of that, didn't know how to correctly implement it, like give me an actual example
  • DeadshotDeadshot
    Khaloodxp wrote: »
    Deadshot wrote: »
    I can't help you there, but you could use some variables after they enter the name. Like, I don't know if this would be possible, but you could do an (if:) statement, asking if $name is bigger than sixteen, and if it is, then ask them to redo it?
    thought of that, didn't know how to correctly implement it, like give me an actual example

    Sorry, I dunno.
  • greyelfgreyelf
    Read the Allowing users to input correct answers in HTML Text Box thread.
  • KhaloodxpKhaloodxp
    greyelf wrote: »
    Read the Allowing users to input correct answers in HTML Text Box thread.
    read it don't know how to make it limit the amount of characters, right now I'm trying to work out the problem with a javascript conditional but that's not working either I'm thinking something around the lines of prompt("What is your name?"); and then I set it to a value somehow like $name and then I make an if conditional like "$name".length <= 16 or something like that
  • DeadshotDeadshot
    Read this - I think it'll help:

    http://twine2.neocities.org/#macro_number
  • KhaloodxpKhaloodxp
    Deadshot wrote: »
    Read this - I think it'll help:

    http://twine2.neocities.org/#macro_number
    sadly it doesn't it will only turn numbers in a string to values (not text)
  • greyelfgreyelf
    Khaloodxp wrote: »
    an if conditional like "$name".length <= 16 or something like that
    The String data section of the Harlowe Manual explains how to access the length of a String value. 
    $name's length
  • KhaloodxpKhaloodxp
    greyelf wrote: »
    Khaloodxp wrote: »
    an if conditional like "$name".length <= 16 or something like that
    The String data section of the Harlowe Manual explains how to access the length of a String value. 
    $name's length
    greyelf wrote: »
    Khaloodxp wrote: »
    an if conditional like "$name".length <= 16 or something like that
    The String data section of the Harlowe Manual explains how to access the length of a String value. 
    $name's length

    thanks I was able to figure it out 
    (set: $name to (prompt: "What's your name?"))
(if: $name's length > 10)[(set: $name to (prompt: "Error name can't be more than 10 letters"))]
    it works perfectly now
  • DeadshotDeadshot
    Khaloodxp wrote: »
    greyelf wrote: »
    Khaloodxp wrote: »
    an if conditional like "$name".length <= 16 or something like that
    The String data section of the Harlowe Manual explains how to access the length of a String value. 
    $name's length
    greyelf wrote: »
    Khaloodxp wrote: »
    an if conditional like "$name".length <= 16 or something like that
    The String data section of the Harlowe Manual explains how to access the length of a String value. 
    $name's length

    thanks I was able to figure it out 
    (set: $name to (prompt: "What's your name?"))
(if: $name's length > 10)[(set: $name to (prompt: "Error name can't be more than 10 letters"))]
    it works perfectly now

    How's the game coming along?
  • KhaloodxpKhaloodxp
    it's almost done I just making simple copy pastes. appearance modifications, lag reduction, basically I am done I am just making it look cooler
  • DeadshotDeadshot
    Khaloodxp wrote: »
    it's almost done I just making simple copy pastes. appearance modifications, lag reduction, basically I am done I am just making it look cooler

    Cool
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