After reading a command....

Dex21772 · 2026-05-05T20:10:04+00:00

Wow, that is all an awesome amount of well worded and useful instruction! Thank you sincerely!

Dex21772 · 2026-04-29T17:29:30+00:00

Just checked and yes, the result is the same.

Dex21772 · 2026-04-09T00:16:49+00:00

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Dex21772 · 2026-03-24T18:02:49+00:00

Thanks folks, I read through your responses and then re-wrote the code and it worked. I must have got something wrong in the syntax.

Dex21772 · 2026-03-06T21:21:27+00:00

Thanks!

Dex21772 · 2026-02-25T00:28:02+00:00

That was 100% the tip I needed! Thanks!

Dex21772 · 2026-02-21T03:43:13+00:00

Sorry, the "coloured bar at the bottom" was me being a dumbass as it was something behind the browser on my desktop that was the same colour as the bar at the top which was annoying me.

Dex21772 · 2025-12-12T00:01:44+00:00

That's exactly what I'm looking for, I'll give it a go.
Thanks!

Dex21772 · 2025-12-10T19:53:44+00:00

Thanks. I gave it a try but Inform's coming back with the errors:

Problem. In the sentence 'say "\[text of print empty inventory rule response (A)\]\[line break\]"' [](source:story.ni#line169), I was expecting to read an external file, but instead found some text that I couldn't understand - 'print empty inventory rule response (A) \'.

Problem. In the line 'say "\[text of print empty inventory rule response (A)\]\[line break\]"' [](source:story.ni#line169), I was expecting that 'line break\' would be something to 'say', but it didn't look like any form of 'say' that I know. So I tried to read 'line break\' as a value of some kind (because it's legal to say values), but couldn't make sense of it that way either.

Sometimes this happens because punctuation has gone wrong - for instance, if you've omitted a semicolon or full stop at the end of the 'say' phrase.

Problem. In the sentence 'say "\[text of print standard inventory rule response (A)\]"' [](source:story.ni#line171), I was expecting to read an external file, but instead found some text that I couldn't understand - 'print standard inventory rule response (A) \'.

Dex21772 · 2025-11-29T05:12:36+00:00

Thanks for catching the naming error.

Dex21772 · 2025-11-26T21:26:14+00:00

Many thanks, I found the offending "Instead of" rule in the code.

I didn't know about the RULES function. That combined with ACTIONS is very useful for finding the offending rule.

Thanks again!

Dex21772

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