How do I use @calcpre@/@calcpost@ variables?

[Nazo]

I know that @calcpre@ comes before @calcpost@, but that's just about all I know. Can someone explain this in a litte more depth?

[Dante557]

This will be changing in the next update (It'll all be going to a singular @calc@ variable) but basically it's all in terms of how things are processed. @calcpre@ gets processed before an @if@ statement is called whereas @calcpost@ is done after the @if@ statement.

They both do the same thing other then this difference. As for how to use them...

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@calcpre@: Executes before @if@ : @calcpre@[op,num1,num2] , e.g. @calcpre@[+,5,4]. Available operaions (+,-,*,/)
@calcpost@: Executes after @if@ :@calcpost@[op,num1,num2] , e.g. @calcpost@[+,5,4]. Available operaions (+,-,*,/)
Thanks,
Dante557

[Nazo]

If you or someone else could post an example that uses this, that would be great!

[Dante557]

Lets say, for some reason, you want to check to see if a viewer enters a number that's greater or equal to the number you input. For this example it'll just be something simple like 10 + 10 but you could also use numbers that you get from text files using @readfile@ or numbers that are randomly generated by the @rand@ variable (Like if you wanted to put your own bias on the number itself).

With this in mind, and using both @calcpre@ and @calcpost@ in the same @if@ statement you could do the following

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@if@[>=||@target@||@calcpre@[+,10,10]||@target@ is greater or equal to @calcpost@[+,10,10]||@target@ is less than @calcpost@[+,10,10]]
Which, when the new update gets released to the general public, will be

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@if@[>=||@target@||@calc@[+|10|10]||@target@ is greater or equal to @calc@[+|10|10]||@target@ is less than @calc@[+|10|10]]
For the first example, we need to use @calcpre@ for it to actually be used in the @if@ statement itself. This is due to how commands are currently prioritised in Deepbot which you can see at the bottom of this page deepbot.deep.sg/wiki/Custom+Commands.

Both @calcpre@ and @calcpost@ will come out as 20 in this example and result in the following

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20:18   dante557: !test 19
20:18  dante557bot: 19 is less than 20
20:18   dante557: !test 20
20:18  dante557bot: 20 is greater or equal to 20
As I mentioned this is only extremely basic usage of the variable. It'll be a whole lot simpler when the update does drop but will, obviously, break commands that are currently using @calcpre@ and @calcpost@

Thanks,
Dante557

[Nazo]

Awesome! Thank you!