[Script] String Formatter

Those of us used to working in languages that have access to things like sprintf--or even in nodejs--have gotten used to writing our strings with replaceable variables. &nbsp;I've taken the liberty of snagging the util.format function from nodejs, and then optimizing it a bit to run faster. <a href="https://gist.github.com/kkragenbrink/5499147" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/kkragenbrink/5499147</a>

How about explaining how this works for those us us who don't understand it? :D

Sure. &nbsp;Long version:&nbsp; <a href="http://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_format_format" rel="nofollow">http://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_format_format</a> My version: You can use this to perform string simple string formatting. &nbsp;So, for example, you might want to write a custom !roll command for some reason, and while you could just have it output to the chat as a preformatted string. I'm pseudocoding, so bear with me, but you might do something like this: var roll = '1d10+2d6+3'; // From user input. var total = 12; // From random cool code. var rolls = [6, 1, 2]; // From random cool code. var user = 'Cool Player'; // From msg.who; var msgform = '%s rolled %s: %d (rolls: %s)'; // The template you want to output. sendChat(user, format(msgform, user, roll, total, rolls.join(','))); The advantages are many:&nbsp; String concatenation (e.g. string + string + string) is notoriously slow in Javascript. You can preformat your messages in a much easier to read manner. It's actually much shorter, and thus easier for you to read and debug later. It separates the presentation from the logic.

Ah, I see. That is cool. It would be awesome if we could have a way to do an include or require and have a community supported function library somewhere. What little I know about coding, I learned from the old Neverwinter Nights 1 and MapTool. In NWN1, we could create a script library that you could define all kinds of awesome functions in and re-use them as needed just by including that library.

Can you please include the copywrite notice from the original source code in your version of it?&nbsp;

Done and done.