> I was reading somewhere about how this mud was having their character
> skills based off the name they enter. (in you name lies your true
> power). I wanted to add this feature to my mud. I need some ideas on
> how to convert a string to get a numeric value.
The easiest way to convert a string to an integer is to use atoi or atol.
aoti converts to integer, atol converts to a long integer.
i.e.
int skillint;
char *namestring;
.
.
.
skillint = aoti(namestring);
or (if skillint is long)
skillint = atol(namestring);
Rohan Wallace
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