Help with Define and Set for a Pulp table

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• jjdale

  May 2019

  I would set a variable to indicate male/female (which could also be used when picking pronouns he/she, his/her, etc). You could either randomly pick the gender first and then have two lists of names (or maybe three lists if you want some ambiguous ones), or in your list of names specify the gender after each one of them, e.g.

  Bob[Gender==Male]
  Sarah[Gender==Female]
  The Shadow[Gender==[|Male|Female]]
  

  I'm not sure one way is better than the other, really just depends what order you want to do things.

  Once you have that variable you can check it with when/do checks, or use it to pick which table to read from, e.g. have two different tables (like Name_Male and Name_Female) and call them with

  [@Name_{$Gender}]
  
• GGeneral_Tangent

  June 2019

  Thank you for the advise, I am sort of making headway now using the following as an example:

  use:nbos\names\USNames.ipt
  Set:Gender==[|USFullNameMale|USFullNameFemale]

  And using [@Name_{$Gender}] to call the result, I am a little stuck when I try to have it redefine the variable to Set:Gender==[USFullNameMale] when the Cleregyman entry is randomly rolled, it appears to output the text string instead of the variable.
• jjdale

  June 2019

  If you want to change the value of a variable in the middle of your table, it would be:

  [Gender==whatever]

  Use square brackets and a double equals sign for a silent assignment (use a single equals sign if you also want the value to be displayed). Only use Set if it can be calculated before you launch into the table itself.

  If that's not the issue, maybe post some code?
• GGeneral_Tangent

  August 2019 edited August 2019

  Hello again, it has been a little while.

  I have the following in my code:P

  Name {$VillianName}
  

  01-04: Gangster {$Gangsternickname} Set:VillianName=[@EELPulpMaleFirst] [@YZGPulpLast]
  46-49: Femme Fatale Set:VillianName=[@EELPulpFemaleFirst] [@YZGPulpLast]

  Which just seems to display the Set part of the command not the output.

  I know I am doing something wrong a fresh pair of eyes is what I'm looking for to assist me,
• jjdale

  August 2019

  Yep, that's not a place you can use Set. Instead use:

  Name {$VillianName}
  01-04: Gangster {$Gangsternickname} [VillianName=[@EELPulpMaleFirst] [@YZGPulpLast]]
  46-49: Femme Fatale [VillianName=[@EELPulpFemaleFirst] [@YZGPulpLast]]
  
• GGeneral_Tangent

  August 2019

  That works, many thanks!