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Re: Parsing a Dice Roll String

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Aug 05, 2004
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On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:39:59 -0700, cklester <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
wrote:

>I'm writing a die roller and need to be
>able to parse a dice function string.
>
>Some examples:
>
>   3d6+5 (roll 6-sided die 3 times, add 5 to sum)
>   4d6-Lowest (roll 6-sided die 4 times, discard lowest die)
>   4d6-Highest (roll 6-sided die 4 times, discard highest die)
>   2d10*3-3d4 (roll 10-sided die twice, multiply by 3, then subtract
>               the result of rolling a 4-sided die three times)
>   5d12/10 (roll 12-sided die five times, divide result by 10)
>
would say the strings
	"d(6,3)+5"
	"d(6,4)-Lowest"
	"d(6,4)+Highest"
	"d(10,2)*3-d(4,3)"
	"d(12,5)/10"
be acceptable?

If so, I think my expression evaluator would cope.
Let me know & I'll try and knock up a quick demo.

Regards,
Pete