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Apprentice Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 170

Hoe exactly does the regex syntax work for triggers? I know it says it uses %/regex/% but I'm guessing I'm misinterpreting exactly where the pattern itself goes as while the following trigger looks simple I can't seem to get it to work.

An example is trying to match the following text.

Directions: [north south west east]
A small bug is flying here.

I tried:
#TRIG {~]%//n/%A small bug is flying here.} {c 'lightning bolt' bug}
as well as:
#TRIG {~]%regex(\n)A small bug is flying here.} {c 'lighting bolt' bug}

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 3:49 pm

If you want your entire pattern to be a regex, just check the regex option for the trigger - you might find that easier. The syntax, anyway, is %/regex/%, so you want %/\n/%. Your first example was using %/regex/% correctly but had an incorrect regex.

Apprentice Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 170

Thanks, that part works, on a similar note, any reason none of the following work?

#TRIG {~]%/\n\n/%~<} {scan}
#TRIG {~]%/\n/%%/\n/%~<} {scan}
#TRIG {~]%/\n/%%s} {scan}

Trying to make it match the following text:

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:07 pm

It'd be simpler, I think, just to use a multistate trigger:

#trig {^]} {blah1}
#cond {^%s} {blah2} {within|param=1}

job done.

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Remember you can also use #regex to create a (completely) regex trigger off of the command line. This is the same as creating a trigger and manually ticking the regex box.