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get user name (HL log format)

I work heavily with HL log files, so I wanted a function to return a player's name in HL log format, rather than just their name in-game. For instead, instead, instead of "Warthog" I would want to return "Warthog<1><0:0:12345><CT>"

So below is the function for this - it is based off of get_user_name() in that you pass the ID, string to copy the data into, and the length. It also returns 0 or 1 based on if the user was found.

Code:

// similar to the stock get_user_name, but return the log name for the player: name<userid><authid><team>
stock get_log_user_name(id, log_user_name[], length)
{
    // if not a valid player, return that the function failed
   if(id < 1 || id > 32)
   {
      log_user_name[0] = 0
      return 0
   }
 
    // if a valid player, set the log user name
   else
   {
      static name[32], userid, authid[32], team[16]
 
      // get the player name, userid, authid, and team
      get_user_name(id, name, 31)
      userid = get_user_userid(id)
      get_user_authid(id, authid, 31)
      get_user_team(id, team, 15)
 
      // concatenate the values together into the user name log format
      formatex(log_user_name, length, "%s<%d><%s><%s>", name, userid, authid, team)
   }
 
   // return success
   return 1
}

Re: get user name (HL log format)

Definitely useful, I think it would be a good addition to amxmisc.

Re: get user name (HL log format)

thanks. actually i modified the first part so you don't have to declare an extra variable for the player...i just put the find_player() check right in the first if() statement

Re: get user name (HL log format)

You can also avoid a native call by doing:

Code:

if(!find_player("k", id))   
{      
   log_user_name[0] = 0     
   return 0   
}

Rather than:

Code:

if(!find_player("k", id))   
{      
   copy(log_user_name,length,"")   
   return 0   
}

Re: get user name (HL log format)

That's kind of spiffy. I'm not used to being able to clear out strings that way. I modifed my original post to include your improvement. Thanks Hawk.

Re: get user name (HL log format)

oops, made one more change and hopefully it's the last edit. get_user_name() that i based this off of passes the player index into the function, but i was treating it like the player userid instead. so i changed find_player() to just check if the index is within the 1-32 range.