Zugg Software :: View topic - another newbie problem with this darned zscripting

Novice Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 40

Here's the script I'm trying to use. Really simple and versatile for me. But I can't get the danged @friend variable to work.

Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:27 pm

I don't even see where you define the "friend" variable. If you don't have the friend variable defined, then it won't work. Also, proper casing might be part of the problem. If you -do- have the friend variable defined, and it's lowercase but the MUD sends uppercase, then it won't match. Variables are funny like that - they have to match -exactly- as they are in the string. An easy thing to do is change your trigger to read "#TRIGGER {^%1 tells the group, 'way %1'} {#IF ismember(%lower(%1), @friend) {way %1}}" and see if that works. It'll automatically lowercase the friend name to match anything you have in the variable.

However, this does sound largely like a bot, and you may want to make sure you're not going to get removed from the MUD for using such a bot. *shrug* Just some warning. I warned you once. :P

Charneus

*EDIT* I see where it was defined. All capital. Missed that. In that case, use:

#TRIGGER {^(%w) tells the group, 'way %2'} {#IF ismember(%1, @friend) {way %2}}

Still my warning stands.

Novice Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 40

Thanks for your warning. But this is for when my kids need my attention. I have two kids, so sometimes I'm gone for a bit. This is never going to be used for prolonged amounts of time.

Where do I insert this line?

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

He is not saying that this one trigger will fix the whole thing. He is showing you a way to check the friend variable so it will work for that one trigger.
Then you can fix them all to work in the same fashion.

#TRIGGER {^@friend tells the group, 'way %1'} {way %1}

Becomes

#TRIGGER {^(%w) tells the group, 'way %2'} {#IF ismember(%1, @friend) {way %2}}

Another and I would think easier way to do the same thing is this.

#TRIGGER {^{@friend} tells the group, 'way %1'} {way %1}

A mention about using %n in trigger patterns. %1 as you used it above is not meant to be used in the pattern of the trigger. One could almost call it a bug that it works.

You see the way charneus used %w in his example? %w is a wildcard that matches abcABC a block of text containing letters but no spaces or special characters.
There is a whole section about wildcards here Match in the help files.

Novice Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 40

Well, I changed those lines and the way one works. the others don't. and when a friend tries the command....we'll you'll see

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

#TRIGGER {^@friend tells the group, '/ ({@CommandList})'} {#EXECUTE %1}

Novice Joined: 07 Jul 2007 Posts: 40

that worked, thanks!