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Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

I cant seem to get %1 from a equ list

[ left finger ] [100] Olog'Hai Signet Ring
[ right finger ] [100] Olog'Hai Signet Ring
[ neck 1 ] [100] Pendant of Spirits
[ neck 2 ] [100] Pendant of Spirits
[ torso ] [100] the body armor of the Purple Dragon
[ head ] [100] a Kingly Crown

Tried this
Pattern: [ left finger ] [(%d)] (%w)
#add outfit %2

but I dont get %2, dont care what %d is, but that can be 1 to 100, so using %d

I have a feeling its the [ ] in the pattern, but I dont know how to handle them

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

You are correct that it is the [ and ]'s that are causing the problem.

Just use a tilda, "~", before them to make Zmud see them as ordinary characters instead of special ones.

~[ left finger ~] ~[(%d)~] (%w)

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

Small changes to the pattern to correct it to match. Since you didn't care what the %d was I remove the capture of it. Anchored the pattern to both start and end of line, the end of line anchor is mostly superfluous, but I think there is an optimization in the matching engine that uses it. I also adjusted the final capture to pick up all words.

The #ADD command does both numeric computation and concatenation. Since you are passing it text it would preform a concat, however you supplied no seperator in your script. The lack of a seperator would make it hard to determine which words should be grouped together or which characters formed a word. Considerthissentenceandshouldfinditisnothardtoreadsinceyoucanparsethemeaningofwords. The change to #ADDITEM provides a seperator that is used in many other commands and functions, and will work much better for you.

Pattern: ^~[ left finger ~] ~[%d~] (*)$
#ADDITEM outfit {%1}

Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

Thanks to both of you for repling to this post. However, I tried both of your samples and I'm still not able to populate the 'outfit' variable.

I tested the pattern and it returns pattern matches but nothing is added to 'outfit'

Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

Well correction to this, things seem to work after you walk away for a few. I got it working to some degree using Arminas example.

It only adds the first word of the string tho, ie "Olog'Hai" from "Olog'Hai Signet Ring" which will work

Note: to get to work, I had to insure the spacing was correct where blank spaces are found.

Thanks again guys, you guys rock
Darklord

Adept Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 250 Location: Austin, TX

Ok...let's boil this down to essentials:

Start zMUD
Hit ESC to dismiss the session window and start an empty session in offline mode
Type the following at the command line, and hit return:

Code:

#trig {^~[ * ~] ~[%d~] (*)$} {#additem outfit {%1}}

Note that I'm throwing away both the slot name (the * in the first set of brackets) and that numeric code (the %d in the second set of brackets). If you want to keep either one, put parens around it and shift the %n numbers appropriately.
Hit Ctrl-R to turn off command parsing on the command line (so we can paste in your sample output w/o escaping all the special characters)

Paste the sample output into the command line and hit return:

Code:

[ left finger ] [100] Olog'Hai Signet Ring
[ right finger ] [100] Olog'Hai Signet Ring
[ neck 1 ] [100] Pendant of Spirits
[ neck 2 ] [100] Pendant of Spirits
[ torso ] [100] the body armor of the Purple Dragon
[ head ] [100] a Kingly Crown

Hit Ctrl-R again to turn command parsing back on
Type the following at the command line, and hit return:

Code:

#show @outfit

When I do that, I get the following output:

Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

Thanks again guys, whats the best way to remove, 'the', 'a', 'an', 'some' from {%1} if it appears at the start of {%1}

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 3:42 pm

var=%subregex(%1,"^(a|an|the|some) ","")

Beginner Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 17

I love this place, yall are the best.

Fang that worked fine until it sees an item begins with 'a' so I
var=%subregex(%1,"^(a |an |the |some ) ","") added a space after each.

Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:02 pm

You'll want to remove the space at the end in that case, or it won't match - there'll be two spaces in a row, which don't occur in the text.