Function doread

src/read.c:326–647

}

DISABLE_WARNING_FORMAT_NONLITERAL

/* the #read command; read a scroll or spell book or various other things */
int
doread(void)
{
    static const char find_any_braille[] = "feel any Braille writing.";
    struct obj *scroll;
    boolean confused, nodisappear;
    int otyp;

    /*
     * Reading while blind is allowed in most cases, including the
     * Book of the Dead but not regular spellbooks.  For scrolls, the
     * description has to have been seen or magically learned (so only
     * when scroll->dknown is true):  hero recites the label while
     * holding the unfurled scroll.  We deliberately don't require
     * free hands because that would cripple scroll of remove curse,
     * but we ought to be requiring hands or at least limbs.  The
     * recitation could be sub-vocal; actual speech isn't required.
     *
     * Reading while confused is allowed and can produce alternate
     * outcome.
     *
     * Reading while stunned is currently allowed but probably should
     * be prevented....
     */

    gk.known = FALSE;
    if (check_capacity((char *) 0))
        return ECMD_OK;

    scroll = getobj("read", read_ok, GETOBJ_PROMPT);
    if (!scroll)
        return ECMD_CANCEL;
    otyp = scroll->otyp;
    scroll->pickup_prev = 0; /* no longer 'just picked up' */

    /* outrumor has its own blindness check */
    if (otyp == FORTUNE_COOKIE) {
        if (flags.verbose)
            You("break up the cookie and throw away the pieces.");
        outrumor(bcsign(scroll), BY_COOKIE);
        if (!Blind)
            if (!u.uconduct.literate++)
                livelog_printf(LL_CONDUCT,
                               "became literate by reading a fortune cookie");
        useup(scroll);
        return ECMD_TIME;
    } else if (otyp == T_SHIRT || otyp == ALCHEMY_SMOCK
               || otyp == HAWAIIAN_SHIRT) {
        char buf[BUFSZ], *mesg;
        const char *endpunct;

        if (Blind) {
            You_cant(find_any_braille);
            return ECMD_OK;
        }