Reading multiple parameters from an Armagetron command

[smoothice]

So this is my Arma C++ question for the week....

So you know when you run an Armagetron command you can run like "KILL smoothice". What if I wanted to (in C++) get information from multiple parameters?: "KILL smoothice anotherplayer".

You can see this code:

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static void Kill_conf(std::istream &s)
{
    if ( se_NeedsServer( "KILL", s, false ) )
    {
        return;
    }

    ePlayerNetID * p = ReadPlayer( s );

It obviously retrieves the player from the command and reads it into the ePlayerNetID called p.

So basically I'm asking how I can make a command that deals with two players and not just one.

[Lucifer]

tricky, since player names can have spaces, right?

Anyway, you need to parse the arguments into a list, then, for this particular example, iterate through the list and run the command on each item in the list.

Not too hard, provided there aren't spaces in the player names.

[epsy]

ReadPlayer only reads one word AFAIK

[Z-Man]

Yep. Just call it as often as you need.

[smoothice]

Yep. Just call it as often as you need.

So it would be like this?

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static void Kill_conf(std::istream &s) 
{ 
    if ( se_NeedsServer( "KILL", s, false ) ) 
    { 
        return; 
    } 

    ePlayerNetID * p = ReadPlayer( s );
    ePlayerNetID * p2 = ReadPlayer( s );

p would be the first player and p2 the second?

[Z-Man]

Yeah, that should work.

[smoothice]

Hi again.... the previous discussion with running ReadPlayer twice works. However, I've moved the code in my branch to gGame and ReadPlayer does not work there. So instead, epsy told me to use these lines:

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	ePlayerNetID * p = ePlayerNetID::FindPlayerByName( theInput, 0 );
	ePlayerNetID * p2 = ePlayerNetID::FindPlayerByName( theInput, 0 );

However running it twice returns the first argument for both p and p2. How would I go about getting the functionality of ReadPlayer into this (being able to run it twice to get argument 1 and argument 2)?

[Z-Man]

In that case, you first need to split the argument in its parts:

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std::istringstream stream( theInput );
tString theInput1, theInput2;
stream >> theInput1;
stream >> theInput2;