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Newbie Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 8

Hi,

I would like to catch the room description to a variable
for further processing, after pressing 'l' for look.
So, I press 'l' and mud outputs something like this:

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:30 am

A multistate trigger will probably work best.

#trig {^{l|look}$} {#t+ capture;#var RoomDesc ""} "" {oninput}
#cond {There {is|are} %w obvious exit{|s}:} {#t- capture}

#trig "capture" {^(*)$} {#additem RoomDesc %1} "" {disable}

What sort of "further processing" are you doing? There might be a better way to do this. And in addition, this'd be a lot simpler if you could turn off server-side word wrapping.

Newbie Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 8

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

list=%subchar(@description," ","|")

#Forall @list {probe %i}

Newbie Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 8

Newbie Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 8

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:09 pm

It can be made easier because all the text of the room description will be one line. You can do something like this:

#trig {^{l|look}$} {} "" {oninput}
#cond {^(*)$} {list=%subchar(%1," .,","|"}

Because the line after a look will always be the description. You could make it a bit more robust by doing something like

#trig {^{l|look}$} {} "" {oninput}
#cond {^(*)$} {list=%1}
#cond {There {is|are} %w obvious exit{|s}:} {list=%subchar(@list," .,","|"} {within|param=1}

I assume you're just going to do #forall @list {#if !%ismember(%i,@ListofNonNouns) {probe %i}}

where @ListofNonNouns is something like the|a|you|near|couple|of|looming|over|nearby etc etc. You'll never make a complete list, but it'll cut down the spam some.

Newbie Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 8

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

Fang is thinking in Cmud terms. You need to put quotes around the %1.

#trig "capture" {^(*)$} {#additem RoomDesc "%1"} "" {disable}

Should do the trick.

Newbie Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 8

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:24 pm

Also, if you're using the %subchar suggestion, you might find that this creates a string list with four items where each item is a line, but the spaces have been replaced with |. You might have to do something like #forall %subchar("%1"," .,","|") {#additem RoomDesc %i} instead.

Newbie Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 8

Thanks very much for the help, however there is one small thing.
When I first send 'l' command to the mud everything is ok, variable is filled with room description.
But after that it does not work, I have to type in for example a "#var" command or "#echo @RoomDesc" command.
Afterwards 'l' command works once and then again it does not.
I use these triggers:

#trig {^{l|look}$} {#t+ capture;#var RoomDesc ""} "" {oninput}
#cond {There {is|are} %w obvious exit{|s}:} {#t- capture}

#trig "capture" {^(*)$} %subchar( "%1", " .,:0123456789", "|") {#additem RoomDesc %i}
"" {disable}

Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:50 pm

If you didn't make a typo there, your capture trigger is wrong. There's a "{#forall " missing before the %subchar.

Newbie Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 8