Notecard line not being considered as key

I am using this portion of a script here... I have gotten this portion from another script in which i have changed here and there.

key avatar = ""; // Avatar key here 

//variables removed

string gName = "zOwner";

//Script removed

init()
{
    if (gName != "")  // if a notecard is found
        avatar = (key)llGetNotecardLine(gName, 1);    // request first notecard line
    else
        llOwnerSay("No Owner Notecard Located");

    llSensorRepeat(name, avatar, AGENT, 100, TWO_PI, time); // Fire up the sensor 
    
    searching = 1;
    timeout = 0;
    found = 0;
    
    llSetTimerEvent(2);
}

Now the issue that I am having is that the first line of the notecard is read and placed into 'avatar', but whenever I attempt to use this key in any function it does not work. However If I comment out the 'avatar =' line and place the key I want into where the key is called, it works just fine.

Now in the notecard I do not have the key that I am pulling in quotes. I don't think that this would be much on an issue since it is not a string.

Any ideas what would be causing this?

llGetNotecardLine()



In short, start with 0.

key avatar = ""; // Avatar key here 

//variables removed

string gName = "zOwner";

//Script removed

init()
{
    if (gName != "")  // if a notecard is found
        avatar = (key)llGetNotecardLine(gName, 0);    // Now it actually does request first notecard line
    else
        llOwnerSay("No Owner Notecard Located");

    llSensorRepeat(name, avatar, AGENT, 100, TWO_PI, time); // Fire up the sensor 
    
    searching = 1;
    timeout = 0;
    found = 0;
    
    llSetTimerEvent(2);
}

Hmmm.... I definately understand that now. But why was it pulling the first line already. Was is also pulling the EOF and this caused the information pulled to not be a key?

Are you positive that it was reading in the first line? You had it llOwnerSay it or something?

I am not looking at it right now, due to RL working , but I do beleive it was was storing the key but just not implementing it.

However I do want to try the 0 for the line number. I will try this once i get home.

The line before the one Milambus highlighted is the (next) important one - llGetNotcardLine function starts a database query and returns a key to the query id. It doesn't return the notecard line itself. You'll need to use the dataserver event to get the actual contents of the line.

There's a simple code sample on the wiki page..

Yep, all you are getting there is the key that references the dataserver event, rather than the notecard line.

Add in a dataserver event, and get the key from there:

key nline;
nline=llGetNotecardLine(gName, 0);
dataserver(key queryid, string data){
    if(queryid==nline){
        avatar=(key)data;
    }
}

You'll have to do that in a state rather than a function though, as a function cannot hold the dataserver event.