string to vector or integer???

ok iv been doing stuff whit link message and lllisten
but i get to a point were i would like to just be able to do "color 0,0,1" instead of color blue and converting it in the script

i know how to get a said char in the message and i know how to store it in a string
but i cant seam to be able to use the string in color vector
can any one help me here

If you have 3 seperate strings:

vector color = <float)string1, (float)string2, (float)string3>;

If you have a string like this:

<0, 0, 0> then vector color = (vector)string;

Pete's right. Or:

user could say "color <1,1,1>"

if ( llGetSubString(message,0,4) == "color" )
{
    string sColor = llGetSubString(message,6,-1);
    vector vColor = (vector)sColor;
    llSetColor(vColor, ALL_SIDES);
}

Or:

user could say "color 1,1,1"

if ( llGetSubString(message,0,5) == "color " )
{
    vector vColor = (vector)("<"+llDeleteSubString(message,0,5)+">");
    llSetColor(vColor, ALL_SIDES);
}

I like using standard character delineators (like "," or "|" or ":"

So using your example:
"color 0,0,1"
let's say this is your entire message, and you save it in your listen as a string named msg

list newlist = llParseString2List(msg,[],[" ",","]);

newlist would be = ["color"," ","0", ",", "0", ",", "1"]

or if you changed your input to "color,0,0,1" you can now parse just on the comma and throw it away:
list newlist = llParseString2List(msg,[","],[]);

newlist would be = ["color", "0", "0", "1"];

Also what's easy enough to do is have a 0-255 input, then simply divide each input by 255 before you use the color. In this way you can have colors standard to how prims are assigned color.

You can also double parse a list on your original input:
string msg = "color 0,0,1";

list newlist = llParseString2List(llList2String( llParseString2List(msg,[" "],[]),1) );

would produce newlist = ["0","0","1"];

Broken down - first the message is parsed by space delineator, leaving two substrings "color" and "0,0,1" in a list. Then the second string in this list is parsed by commas, producing the final list.

Finally, no matter which way you choose, you access the member in the list like - integer color = llList2Integer(newlist,1);
this would grab the second item in newlist as an integer

http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llParseString2List
http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=llList2String
http://secondlife.com/badgeo/wakka.php?wakka=lists