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Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

When using a list as a trigger pattern, is it possible to determine which list member fired the trigger and then use it in a manner similar to %1-%99?

For an example:
I have a list of George|Henry|Frank

I have a trigger %q{@List}%q

I receive the line
Lucy spanks Henry with a paddle!

So the trigger fires, and I want to be able to use Henry inside the script as I would if I had done

#TRIGGER {%w spanks (%w) with a paddle!}

In which case I could use %1 to refer to Henry.

Is this possible? If so how?

I tried doing ({@List}) to see if that would work, it did not.

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:46 pm

({@List}) is the way to do it, it should be working. I haven't tested zMUD, only CMUD, but I can't imagine something like this remained bugged in zMUD.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

({@List}) would be the correct syntax and should work. Your final pattern for your example line "^%w spanks ({@List}) with a paddle!$". This should have no problem capturing the matched List item to %1.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Well, thats weird. Unless maybe its assigning it to a %n equal to the position in the list... I'll test that... though it SHOULDN'T be.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Ok, yeah, if I put it as ({@List}) it stops matching.
Tested by just having a trigger:
#TRIGGER {%q({@List)}%q} {#ECHO Fired}

Using the same list as before and in a blank session sending Henry to the window

If I remove the parens, it fires.

Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:49 pm

Your ) is inside the }, it should be outside. So }), not )}.

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Yes, thats how I actually had it, i just manually typed whats here and mistyped.

Wanderer Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 96

I use a list to grab people from my clan roster to change their color scheme, and my trigger is set up as %q({@clanmembers})%q and it fires correctly.

Works like that or (%q{@list}%q) as well, and it will capture to %1.

Check to see you don't have more than one trigger for it if it's still not working.

-Rappy