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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I thought expression in CMUD didn't use ==, they just used =

And what's with the 1,2,3,4?

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

They can use either way. = would be the same as the == I have there.

I showed you two different syntaxes.

The first syntax is a shortcut syntax. You place the variable to be tested first.
Then you place the value of the variable before each set of commands.

I'll do another example.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

#switch (@damage)
"maims" {#sub {bladie blah?}}

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Uh why the heck are you doing all that with #SUBSTITUTE when all you need is #SAYADD to tack your little damage amounts or whatever onto the end of the line.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I want it to match the text from the MUD, #say would look separate from it.

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:03 pm

Read the help on #sayadd, you can use it in a trigger so it's quite useful. But if you want to do other stuff to the line (you said you wanted to remove the damage text at some point?), you'll need to use #sub.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I don't need to remove the damage text, just need to add the numbers. I need to capture the damage text, damage type and the critter I'm doing damage to.

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:40 pm

So change the colour. You can use %ansi or MXP to change it.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

And that will just change it for that instance?

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

If you close it properly, yes, it will only color the part you indicate.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Right, #SAYADD is exactly what you want to use in this case. Just make sure and put a space before whatever you want to add to the end of the line.

In the value of your trigger you would just put your script to calculate the damage and then include:

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

hmm... why are we using $dmg? and can I arrange "#regex {^(Your (?:shocking bite|punch|chop|whatever) (?:misses|maims|scratches|whatever) (a|the| ) .+[!\.])$} {#IF (%2="*** DEVESTATES ***") {#sub %concat(%1, " (50) dmg")} } " like...

#regex {^(Your
(?:shocking bite|punch|chop|whatever)
(?:misses|maims|scratches|whatever)
(a|the| ) .+[!\.])$}
{#IF (%2="*** DEVESTATES ***") {#sub %concat(%1, " (50) dmg")} }

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

$dmg would be the value calculated by you to represent how much damage you just did, so that instead of branching like this:

scratches -> #sayadd <color red> 1 Damage</color>
does something -> #sayadd <color red> 3 Damage</color>
something else -> #sayadd <color red> 7 Damage</color>
...

and so on, you can branch like this
scratches -> 1
does something -> 3
something else -> 7
...

which is much easier to read, and more important, change later on.

And really, you should avoid using sub, since we've got the lovely sayadd (so much love), because sub is really freaking slow and also sometimes a pain in the rear, and plus it requires you to jump through extra hoops, and really, just not good.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Well... here's what I have. IT's terribly messy and buggy Sad

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Hmm... I could clean it up if I did the conversion first and just did one #sayadd. I'll look into that after breakfast.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

That's why I had the local variable of $dmg. It would certainly be more readable than what you have. However, why are you backreferencing 3 items when you only use one of them? Also your script will never work since you are missing a bracket and even then will only work when you get the Devestates line.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

backreferencing what? I'm just trying to figure out why it's $ instead of @

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

How's this?

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Well okay lets look at your trigger.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Yes thats the right idea, but your script STILL will never work because of this:

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I want to store the amount to be added to a total amount that survives past the instance of the trigger.

So what I have is this:

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

I see. Well don't forget to assign those things to whatever variables or database you are going to use then in your script there. You don't have it yet.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I'm getting a load of syntax errors in the script at the moment. Confused

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

lol...do you see what you did?

You are storing the value of the type of damage into Dmg_Val and also trying to store the damage amount. This is why you need two variables.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

It's supposed to just replace it, but I can use two variables. However, the syntax is still an issue. I have no clue how to indent and space it properly, it should be. Confused