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Novice Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 38

This is what i want to trigger on:
Fhqwhgad tells you 'hello there'
My trigger looks like this: %w tells you '*'
It works great and all, however it isn't as picky as i'd like. It triggers even if something is infront of the %w which i would like it not to.
Example: The Fhqwhgad tells you 'hello there'
Basically i want it to trigger when there's only 1 word before the tells you.

Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 11:24 am

This process is sometimes called anchoring. The ^ character matches the start of the line, so ^hello in a trigger will only match the world "hello" when it's at the beginning of the line. Similarly, $ matches the end of the line.

Your new trigger pattern will be ^%w tells you '*'

For more info on pattern-matching, see the help.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

This can however miss some things when they appear AFTER your prompt (due to repeated command inputs and such).

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

One workaround, which is really only possible if there is no chance of extra wordage in front of or behind a player name, is the following:

#trigger {^(*) tells you, '*'$} {#if (%numwords(%1) = 1) {#noop this is a valid tell from a player} {#noop this is an invalid tell}}