Sugarcube: Visited Passage question

Authoring Twine
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I’m using SugarCube. I’m relatively new and not sure how to find which version I’m using, would love to know that for future reference.

I’m hoping to find a way to trigger something to happen if either one of two passages has been visited. (for example, I have two passages named “It’s mine” and “It’s magic” and I want something to happen later if either one of them has been visited.)

I know how to use if hasVisited to make a change if one specific passage has been visited, or if both of two passages have been visited, but I need something for if the reader has chosen either one of two.

I can clarify if this is confusing. Thanks so much!

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It sounds to me you actually already have 90% of the solution. The <<if>> http://www.motoslave.net/sugarcube/2/docs/#macros-macro-if macro allows for more than one condition to be tested. Especially the || operator is read ‘or’, if any of the conditions separated by an ‘or’ is true, then the whole is true.

<<if hasVisited("It's mine") || hasVisited("It's magic")>> ... whatever should happen <</if>>

It is true if the reader has visited “It’s mine”, “It’s magic” or both.
However I think hasVisited() does not consider the passage has been visited if it has been called in another passage, for instance with <<include>> or <<replace>>.

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I didn’t know that about || meaning “or”! That solves my problem perfectly. I’ll update everything that wasn’t working. Thank you!

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This is true. Also doesn’t count if it “popped up” via Dialog API.

Alternately I believe you can count the number of visits also:
<<if visited("It's mine") + visited("It's magic") gte 1>> [...do something]

…meaning you can count number of visits to multiple passages and add them together. If neither has been visited it would evaluate to 0.

[Had to edit: hasVisited() gives you boolean true/false, where visited() evaluates to a count of passage views. Leaving brackets empty defaults to the current passage.]

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