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Here's what I'm trying to do: If one variable, let's call it ... "hunger" is greater than another variable, "food", then specific text will display, like "you've eaten all your candy, but your stomach is still growling." Of course, if "food" is greater than "hunger" I'd want different text to display, like "You've eaten half of your candy and you're so full, you can't eat another bite."

I already know how to make text display with specific amounts of variables, or > / < a certain number of a certain variable, but I haven't been able to get "if variable1 is greater than variable2" to work and, if I missed the article on it, feel free to just link me so I'll be out of your hair. xD

(Sorry for asking something so basic, I'm just still not very good at this.) 

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%%VARIABLE1%>%%VARIABLE2%

Have you tried that? Note how there are two % signs before the second variable.

Here's the working format:

%%GOLD%>%SPOON%Yes%%

What about more than one variable? Would it be, like, %%GOLD%>%CUP%PLATE%SPOON%Yes%%?

Not 100% sure, but if so, it would probably look like this:

%%GOLD%>%CUP%=%PLATE%<%SPOON%Yes%%

I really doubt you can compare more than two things.

I tend to agree - as the boolian logic gets really complex past that point!

Well ... damn. That presents a problem. *hum*

Well, say what do you actually want to do, and maybe we can come up with an alternative.

Well ... I'm making a quiz and I was attempting to put all the results on one page, but scripted to only display individually. There are ten different results, not just two. Yeah, I know I've scripted a quiz before, but the personality quiz in GOLAD cuts off after you reach a certain amount for a certain variable and I had to make enough questions so it wasn't possible -not- to reach a result. So, you know: 5 results, 5 points per question, 15 points to reach a result = 15 questions. I'm just really not crazy about that method.

Gonna need a lot more detail than that before we can actually help you lol. Say exactly what you want.

Okay... uh ... all the results were going to be on the same page and each result was assigned to a single variable. You were suppose to increase the variables depending on how you answered the quiz, then the highest variable value would determine which single result displayed at the end.

I figured I could just script it so it compared all ten variables, then displayed only the result assigned to your highest variable.

(I thought of another method, but it just seems needlessly complicated.)

What happens if there is a tie? What's the max/min the variables can be?

As I was typing out my previous reply, I realized I'd actually forgotten to account for that possibility. *facepalm*

Also, my standard values for max and min are 100 and 0 respectively, until I find a good reason for them to be something else.

What's the max and min they can actually be though? How many points could one be given by the end?

I haven't actually decided the number of questions. I was thinking 20-25, and from 0 to 4/5 points per question. Minimum would still be 0, maximum would likely stay 100. 

Ah, gives me an idea. I could have the answers you give decrease the other values, that would help in preventing a tie.

IF %POINTS >= 25 THEN

IF %POINT < 50 THEN

BEGIN

$PAGETEXT := "You did an okay job." + "</br>" + $PAGETEXT

END

Then put "You have %%POINTS%% points in total on the text page. 

IF %POINTS >= 50 THEN

IF %POINT < 75 THEN

BEGIN

$PAGETEXT := "You did a good job." + "</br>" + $PAGETEXT

END

Then put "You have %%POINTS%% points in total on the text page. 

IF %POINTS >= 75 THEN

IF %POINT < 100 THEN

BEGIN

$PAGETEXT := "You did a great job!" + "</br>" + $PAGETEXT

END

Then put "You have %%POINTS%% points in total on the text page. 

Are you looking for something like this? o.O

Sadly, no. You're talking about comparing differing amounts of the same variable. I'm talking about comparing multiple different variables to each other.

So something like...?

IF POINT1 > POINT2 THEN

IF POINT2 > POINT3 THEN

IF POINT3 > POINT4 THEN

BEGIN

$PAGETEXT := "BLAHBLAHBLAH."

END

Umm... actually, I think it'd look more like

IF POINT1 > POINT2 THEN

IF POINT1 > POINT3 THEN

IF POINT1 > POINT4 THEN

BEGIN

$PAGETEXT := "BLAHBLAHBLAH."

END

... Is that possible?

Yes. It is. As long is Point1 is greater than Point2,3,and 4 it should execute the codes. 

Huh. Cool. =D I'll give it a shot.

But wait. Make sure you only use it once. For example if you put...

IF %POINT1 > %POINT2 THEN

BEGIN

$PAGETEXT := "BLAH"

END

IF %POINT1 > %POINT3 THEN

BEGIN

$PAGETEXT := "BLAH"

END

If both is true, they would execute both pagetext, but if you set something like this...

%POINT1 := 25

%POINT1 := %POINT1 + %POINT2

This would cause the results to be erroneous. 

Oh... then it won't work. *sigh* I think I have a plan, though.

Okay Kiel. Explain to me how %POINT can be both an 1 and a 2 at the same time. 

Tell me exactly what you are trying to do. When I say exactly, I mean everything. Details. Are. Important. 

%HIGHEST := %ONE
%ANSWER := 1

IF %TWO > %HIGHEST THEN
BEGIN
%HIGHEST := %TWO
%ANSWER := 2
END

IF %THREE > %HIGHEST THEN
BEGIN
%HIGHEST := %THREE
%ANSWER := 3
END

Repeat until you look though all of them, then use the %answer variable to determine the text.

Yeah, but the thing is %ANSWER can only be one number at a time. It's either 1, 2, OR 3. It can't be 1, 2, AND 3. 

Kiel said he didn't want ties to be possible, so I'm assuming he's adding another way to deal with them.

This would make it so that it there's a tie, then the script will pick one randomly. 

IF %POINTS1 = %POINTS2 THEN

BEGIN

%ROLL := 1D2

IF %ROLL = 1 THEN

BEGIN

%POINTS1 := %POINTS1 + 1 

END

IF %ROLL = 2 THEN

BEGIN

%POINTS2 := %POINTS2 + 1 

END

END

You can do more complex things with $PAGETEXT, but then it's more complex...