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Novice Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 48

Okay, I want a trigger to only trigger when the exact line is hit, no text before or after. But, I also have wildcards inside my trigger. Example:

#Trigger {Joe (*) cake}

Now this could trigger on:

"Joe gives you some cake"

or

"Joe gives you some cake which you eat" (which I don't want)

It could also trigger on a room description such as:

blah, Joe, blah blah blah, etc, etc cake. (which I also don't want)

What I am trying to resolve, is this trigger does not have a period at the end so I don't have anything which shows end of line or end of trigger. The "^" symbol apparently makes it so it will only trigger when it is on a new line and there is no text before it. Is there another type of symbol that I can use at the end which says "no other text will follow"?

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:36 am

Yes, $.

#trig {Joe (*) cake$}

Matches "Joe gives you some cake" but not "Joe gives you some cake." or "Joe gives you some cake which you eat"

See Pattern Matching.

Novice Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 48

Wow, works excellent...

One more now that I'm on a roll..

I want to change the color of some text using the color command. However the trigger is set for "... hums!" on equipment. When using the color command, I only want to change the color of that quote, not the whole line. How do I do this?

Wanderer Joined: 30 Dec 2001 Posts: 66 Location: USA

#CW can be used to color the text that is triggered.
#CO is for coloring a complete line.

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:06 am

You can also use #sub and MXP <color> tags for more exact control of colours.

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

You can use #COLOR and #CW with any color, not just the ansi ones, by the way. And there's also #PCOLOR to color text groups captured in triggers.

I tend to only use the color tags when embedding into a #SHOW. One drawback to those tags is that you can't use them in #PSUBs at the moment (well, never probably in zMUD).