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brennanyoung
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Joined: 17 Jan 2009
Posts: 7
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 Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:24 am
Trigger patterns containing linebreaks not working? (2.37)
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First - thanks much to those who answered my previous posts. Great and welcoming community here.
I know my way around a regex,and have been programming for years, but I just can't seem to get any triggers to work if the pattern contains linebreaks.
Example text from mud which I want to use (ignore quotes):
"cat dog fish.
The door is shut."
I've tried various combinations of $ and ^ and \n and \r and even \l with or without the regex checkbox checked, with no luck.
What am I doing wrong?
Very annoying that the 'test' feature only allows single lines of test data.
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shalimar
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Location: Pensacola, FL, USA
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:20 am
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if you highlight the mud text from your window it should automatically copy the linebreak as well, just open settings editor and paste it into the trigger pattern
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chris-74269
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:34 am
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Did you try taking off the "trigger on newline" parameter? Thay may be causing it to look for 2 linefeeds instead of one, also post the pattern you are using atm
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brennanyoung
Newbie
Joined: 17 Jan 2009
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:15 pm
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Thanks for your replies.
I tried copying+pasting from the mud output and it's:
but who were we?
The door is shut.
which comes out as:
but who were we?$The door is shut.$
I also tried with and without the newline checkbox. No joy with either. Mysterious. |
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Rahab
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Joined: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 2320
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:41 pm
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| but who were we?$The door is shut.$ |
That is how it probably should come out. I take it this did not actually work for you? Perhaps it would help if you would give a little more detail about what you are trying to do. Multiline triggers should work, but I don't usually use them myself so I don't have experience to help figure that out. But if you can't get that working, there may be other ways to accomplish your goal (though I agree it would be good to figure out the problem here). |
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Tech
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Joined: 18 Oct 2000
Posts: 2733
Location: Atlanta, USA
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:42 pm
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I'm going to assume you are using regex patterns for your text. So you'll want a trigger like this.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<cmud>
<trigger priority="10" regex="true" copy="yes">
<pattern>but who were we\?\nThe door is shut.</pattern>
<value>#echo it called</value>
</trigger>
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I'm assuming one of two things were happening. You weren't escaping the '?' character. But since you said you already regex I'm going to assuming that's not it. Using a regex pattern the '\n' is all you need to indicate a line break.
Since you already told CMUD you want to trigger on line break (the default) you only need to specify the first one since it delimit it's match pattern based on the second line break.
I hope that helps.
I did come across (and reported) a small bug where CMUD would eat the first word of the pattern (or at least indicate it would on it's equivalent perl regex) if you used you used the zScript matching syntax and tried to match the new line.
This pattern
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| but who were we~?$^The door is shut. |
would yield this perl regex when checked on the trigger tester tab.
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| but who were we\?\n door is shut\. |
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Fang Xianfu
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Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:51 pm
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If you're trying to match two lines, use a multistate "within lines" trigger.
#trig {but who were we~} {}
#cond {The door is shut} {whatever} {within|param=1} |
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