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Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

(%w) gives you something

how do I get a %something for the something ?

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

do you mean automatically respond to the line: (%w) gives you %w?

and that often looks like

(%w) gives you %d %w

(%w) gives you {a|an} %w or (%w) gives you {a|an|the|some} *

or is %something actual text, I thought not though

if you mean get a "specific thing" for another "specific thing" I would use a database function to get the name of the appropriate "specific thing" - perhaps %iskey(@allsomethings,@something)

Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

This is what Im building,
Someone give me a weapon
ie
Ssuya gives you Steel Dagger

Trigger sees 'give you' with (%w) gives you

I need a %something for the weapon

then I will

#IF (%ismember( %something, @weaponlist)) {cast vice %something} {say blah blah blah}

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I am confused by that make-believe function

you are not capturing anything there but the person, so how is this %something at all relevant?

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

Is that the question? you must also capture (%w) for the something, but you will need to make a database of somethings by the way they look in triggers

Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

with your 1st reply, I think I see my error, just need to use gives you (%w) vs (%w) gives you, or use (w%) gives you (w%)

using %w for what ever I need and place it where its needed.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

This person will only give one specific something, but there are many such people?

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

yes, every time you add (%w) it references a new %1 variable

%w gives you (%w) is one variable called %1
(%w) gives you %w is also one variable called %1
(%w) gives you (%w) is two variables called %1 and %2

you need to save those with #var or #addkey or use them right away

%w matches only 'dagger' but would match the 'a' if it were 'a dagger' in a line

Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

(%w) gives you (%w)
#IF (%ismember( %2, @weaponlist)) {cast vice %2} {say Sorry %1 %2 doesnt appear in my weapon list}

Stuipd me thought the (%w) had to be at the begining, learn something every day

Thanks for you help and time

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

using a comma with a tag phrase is easier to read.

say Sorry %1~, %2 doesnt appear in my weapon list

I do think you need a tilde though

(I was not trying to correct grammar, just I would not think twice over the comma, but I seem caught in the throws of propriety and need to point out you have not punctuated your contraction)

Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

One more thing, and I will correct that

#IF (%ismember( %2, @weaponlist)) {cast vice %2 | give %2 %1} {say Sorry %1~, %2 doesnt appear in my weapon list )

how do we do two action if true?
1 cast vice %2 cast vice on the weapon
2 give %2 %1 give the weapon back

What tired doesnt work well, well not at all

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

{cast vice %2;give %2 %1}

Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

never mind, figgered it out, press enter

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

that was unexpected, I have no idea why that worked, you made an execution stack? cool, that is like using #input to send the give sword thing to the command buffer. Your way seems not so robotic then using the command separator semicolon.

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

and speaking of awkward english I am full of it, I should have said Your way seems not as robotic as

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I don't get a stack

if the spell gets interrupted by the give command or gives the sword back unchanged you may need #input or an alarm trigger or another trigger to give the weapon back, I would not use the | unless you can find documentation

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

huh, is this an alias or or a trigger?

you really don't want people forcing you to cast for them, but I will mind my own business now

(hehe I can push up my rating by not editing, actually that was unintended, this board was almost real time and I worried because I got an update after editing my first reply. I will be more considerate.)