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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

#var ready " " _nodef {General Variables|Quest Variables}

Is set to not hold anything, however...

#TRIGGER Reload {^You may now quest again.$} {ready="You may quest."} {General Triggers|Quest Triggers}
#REGEX Quest_Off {^You hand .* to the (?:ancient elven questmaster|Bishop of New Thalos|priest of Cliath|High Priest of (?:Arkane|Althainia)).$}
{
Quest="off"
Place=" "
Room=" "
Quest_Item=" "
Earplugs="off"
ready="You may not quest."
} {General Triggers|Quest Triggers}

Both give it values. When these triggers run, however. The value never goes through. Why? Confused

Edit: Alright, correction: It works for you may quest, but when I turn in the quest, it never feeds it the new value.

Wanderer Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 83

Once again, you need to provide us with examples of your MUD's output in order to give you any sort of definitive answer. Just giving us your scripts, while important, won't do anyone any good if we can't see what you're trying to match it against.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

The MUD output is exactly what's in my trigger pattern. And, for the record, the second trigger works for everything else except the ready variable, so it's not the pattern or MUD output.

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

The MUD output can't be exactly what's in your patterns since the patterns contain metacharacters.
You're renown for ignoring the details Chamenas so take the time and post the output like Troublemag requested.
It will no doubt be helpful and it certainly won't hurt.

EDIT:While you're at it show us how you test and what the results are.
Using the Triggers and Variable you posted above I did:

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

I had to infer the string from the pattern.
It's your problem the onus is on you.
And if you're already so sure of what the problem is or isn't then you should have already solved it.
There's a reason why it takes so much effort to help you with basic problems...
If you can't take the time to provide basic information.
I can't see why anyone should take the time to TRY and help.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

You act as if every post of mine lacks the information. When, in fact, if you look at my most recent posts, most of them have output. I'm not lazy, I don't leave out details.

I don't know what the problem is. I do know what the problem isn't. I don't know the answer, I know the answer isn't 1, however.

Both of the patterns work. The problem is with the variable.

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

Well then that's solved.
The problem is with the variable.

Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:15 am

Silly me for getting involved in this, but your trigger works and the ready variable gets loaded properly. So I have no idea how is it that it isn't working for you. So the only way for this to fail, IMO, is that the trigger is not mapping the MUD output the way you think it is (the biggest reason why you were asked to provide MUD listing, so we could compare trigger to output).

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

So explain why the trigger works for everything else then? It's only matching the pattern halfway?

Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:42 am

Chamenas, the thing with you is that you post a problem, then take 5 more posts to figure out your underlying issue. That, and sometimes, it's ridiculous stuff like you missing a brace or a parenthese. You don't appear to take time to figure it out yourself, or to search the forums for similar issues. Granted, this one is unique, but not too many of your posts can say that.

You say that the ready variable doesn't register. Have you tried changing order of your variable? Is the ready variable in a class that gets disabled before this line is triggered? Have you tried using #VAR instead of the = format? Check all this first and report back. There are probably a few more circumstances I've left out, but try anyway.

Charneus

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

It's not that I don't look them over but that I'm severely lacking in attention-to-detail. But I'm not an idiot and I know how to trouble shoot. I work at a help desk and so I know the logical steps to solving a problem. What you've done is offered me some things to test. The previous posters have put on their snooty glasses and told me they don't have enough information. They have more than enough information. If there's a solution to the problem, it's there, not in the output of the MUD.

Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 1:05 am

Whatever.

Wanderer Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 83

Chamenas, you remind me of when I worked in the repair group for a phone company. We had a customer call us up on his cell phone and reported that his phone wasn't working, so we ran line tests and made sure there wasn't anything physically wrong with his line. Then, in the course of trouble shooting with him as to where the problem may lie from the box inside, we asked him Stupid Question #1, which was "Is your phone plugged into the wall." You know what his response was after half an hour of testing? "I don't know. All I have is my cordless phone and we lost power, so it's too dark for me to see if it's plugged in or not."

What does this have to do with you? Well, all we can see of your problem is what you show us and all you're showing us is that it doesn't work for you. You keep posting excuses as to why you're positive it's something wrong with this or it has to be that when 75% of the time, you're not even at the computer that you use to access your game so you don't know for sure what you've got. If you work a help desk, then you should know how impossible you're making things for everyone who has gone out of their way to help you.

If you want help, real help, you're going to have to give us all of the information and stop posting half-assed, confusing responses that only muddle the problem. Oh, and we're not getting snooty. We're just tired of trying to get you to give the necessary information to actually help you.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Gentlemen. Please lets keep things civil. I really don't feel like having to delete posts, topics, etc. Just take a few moments, breathe, have a sip of your handy beverage of choice; and most importantly play nice.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Remember to escape the actual period since a "." in Regex will match any character.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547