[SOLVED] Help! Coded Orders

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#1 
# Read the message on the sign to determine which units to summon and where to place them.
# Check the guide for instructions on interpreting the orders.

sign = hero.findByType("sign")[0]
message = sign.message

# Tip: parse the sign, then summon the units, then send each unit to the right position.

So uhh . . . how do I parse the sign?

Lydia

#2

What do you mean by parse the sign?

#3

Is that all of your code as of right now?

#4

Yes, that is all my code, I don’t know how to parse the sign, but the level requires me to parse it.
Lydia

#5

this is the starter code. can you come back with some code that we can help you with

#6

I don’t know how to parse it. That is why I am asking.
Lydia

#7

To parse means to go over line by line, or character by character. Here it would involve using a for loop to go over the message, which is really just an array of single characters like this: “a”.

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#8

To be honest I don’t even know what parse means but i assume it is this

summonTypes = {"a": "archer", "s": "soldier", "p": "peasant", "g": "griffin-rider", "P": "paladin", "A": "artillery"}
#9

I did something like this

summonTypes = {"a": "archer", "s": "soldier", "p": "peasant", "g": "griffin-rider", "P": "paladin", "A": "artillery"}```
#10

this is the summon types you use them in a function which will be put in a for-in-loop

#11 

sign = hero.findByType("sign")[0]
message = sign.message
summonTypes = {"a": "archer", "s": "soldier", "p": "peasant", "g": "griffin-rider", "P": "paladin", "A": "artillery"}
# Tip: parse the sign, then summon the units, then send each unit to the right position.
while True:
    for summonType in summonTypes:
        if summonType == "a":
            hero.summon("archer")
        if summonType == "s":
            hero.summon("soldier")
        if summonType == "p":
            hero.summon("peasant")
        if summonType == "g":
            hero.summon("griffin-rider")

Now my hero just keeps summoning soldiers, archers, griffin-riders, and peasants.
How do I parse the x y cordinates?
Lydia

#12

This is not the correct thing to use

while True:
    for summonType in summonTypes:
        if summonType == "a":
            hero.summon("archer")
        if summonType == "s":
            hero.summon("soldier")
        if summonType == "p":
            hero.summon("peasant")
        if summonType == "g":
            hero.summon("griffin-rider")

Instead use this

def summonTroops(num, coorX, coorY):
    type = summonTypes[num]
#13

You’ve got to parse the message, not the summonTypes. Remember the letters only come once every 5 characters in the message, so you’ll want a step of 5.
@Archipelago-Gold stop stealing other peoples code. I know that you and milton didn’t write that and I don’t need to prove it, you know it yourself.
If you want to use it yourself then fine, but don’t tell other people how to do it line by line too.

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#14

I still don’t get how to “parse” the message. Do I separate out the letters? If so, how do I do that?
Lydia
P.S. Sorry if I sound stupid.

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#15

Look you should type in the message things for artillery and paladins but just put continue

#16

@milton.jinich I think you should let deadpool deal with this he has it under control

#17

Well, as I said, message is just an array.
With an array you would do this:

for i in range(0, len(enemies)):
    enemy = enemies[i]

You can do the same for a string (that’s what this message is):

for i in range(0, len(message)):
    character = message[i]

That character would be something like “a”, or “9”.
Remember the structure of the message is:
TxxyyTxxyyTxxyy etc…
That means Type e.g. “a” for archer. XX for the x coord e.g. 45 and YY for the y coord e.g. 22.
So if you put in a step of 5 at the end of the for loop, you could go over the message only accessing the Type letters and you could base the position off that.

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#18 

sign = hero.findByType("sign")[0]
message = sign.message
summonTypes = {"a": "archer", "s": "soldier", "p": "peasant", "g": "griffin-rider", "P": "paladin", "A": "artillery"}
# Tip: parse the sign, then summon the units, then send each unit to the right position.
for i in range(0, len(message)):
    character = message[i]
    if character == "a":
        hero.summon("archer")
    if character == "s":
        hero.summon("soldier")
    if character == "p":
        hero.summon("peasant")
    if character == "g":
        hero.summon("griffin-rider")
    if character == "p":
        pass
    if character == "A":
        pass

Now my hero just summons two of each. How do I figure out the x and y coordinate?
Lydia

#19

try doing continue instead of pass

#20

It just does the same thing.
Lydia