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Description
Feature request and related problem
I'd like the ability to display two pieces of important information for each instance of a roll made: the final result (easy), and the individual rolls made to get that result (not easy).
Because the individual roll results in the JSON output aren't labeled with their face (related #242 ), getting the individual results is quite difficult. To see what I mean, consider the notation: 1d100 + 2d20 + 3d10 + 4d6 + 10. This roll in one instance has the following output: 1d100 + 2d20 + 3d10 + 4d6 + 10: [55]+[13, 4]+[10, 5, 5]+[1, 4, 2, 6]+10 = 115. I can, through navigating the RollResult object, get those individual rolls, but they're devoid of context, which may be confusing with complicated rolls like the example. If I show [55, 13, 4, 10, 5, 5, 1, 4, 2, 6], then I might technically be able to figure out which face belongs to each roll by carefully comparing with the notation, but it's not trivial and easy to make a mistake.
What I would like to do is show show something like: d100: [55], d20: [13, 4], d10: [10, 5, 5], d6: [1, 4, 2, 6].
Suggested solution
Implementing #242 would make this functionality much more practical.
A value in the ResultObject that more closely fulfills this, i.e. just directly giving the individual dice rolls with corresponding face like the example string, would also work and I certainly wouldn't complain, although may be a less general and more complex (for the library) solution.
Alternatives
I'm fairly sure that this is possible in some way with regex, but my attempts to do so failed, and I also can't be sure that if I did come up with a solution, it would be general enough to accommodate the full complexities of possible rolls.
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