On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Roger Smith wrote:
>I'm not sure if this has been talked about before, but I was curious how
>to make it so a 'k' (thousand) and an 'm' (million) can be used after an
>amount of gold.
>
>> give 1k coins Joe
>
>(for all you math majors) is the same as
>
>> give 1000 coins Joe
>
>Any help?
It's easy, trust me. Just iterate over the characters, starting at the
first, adding the values and multiplying by 10 every shift, unless it's a
character. If you really need help, it might be in a copy of the arena
code on the FTP site, by Goon, called adv_atoi(). I can't remember if that
was in his public release or not.
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