Zugg Software :: View topic - Noobie-ish integer question

Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2001 Posts: 100

There is one little thing that has always managed to escape my grasp with every zmud version that I have ever used(and I think I've used them all). It's quite a simple question with a hopefully just-as-simple answer... How can you trigger on an integer that can be negative or positve without using * to replace the negative sign if it is there?

The reason that I ask is that I have basically been writing duplicates of 2 sets of triggers(for prompt and fprompt) ever since I can remember to allow for the alignment of my characters to be displayed properly(Since -1000 does not trigger the same as 1000 does). I have browsed everywhere I could possibly think of to browse, and read through most of this forum bank, but this question did not arise. I have also tried faking zmud out into thinking I knew what I was doing by trying things such as %i, %int, %integer etc., all to no avail. Am I doomed to be forced to use a * just to catch a minus sign?

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Use %n

Kjata

Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2001 Posts: 100

A million times, thank-you.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Nov 2001 Posts: 100

Hmm ok I finally remembered to try this, and it doesn't seem to work... so my years of making 2 trigger sets due to aligns have yet to end... I will post the trigger tho.

Pattern:
.(%d)|(%d)/(%d)|(%d)/(%d)|(%n)|(%w)|(%w) -

Script:
gold = %1
current_hp = %2
max_hp = %3
current_mana = %4
max_mana = %5
align = %6
#IF %7="E" {style = EVASIVE}
#IF %7="D" {style = DEFENSIVE}
#IF %7="S" {style = STANDARD}
#IF %7="A" {style = AGGRESSIVE}
#IF %7="B" {style = BERSERK}
ihs = %8

This trigger won't fire if my align is evil :(

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2001 7:08 pm

Doesn't %n only capture strings preceded by either a "+" or a "-"? So, -1000 will work, as does +1000, but just 1000 won't. I could be wrong though.

Acaila

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

quote:

Doesn't %n only capture strings preceded by either a "+" or a "-"? So, -1000 will work, as does +1000, but just 1000 won't. I could be wrong though.

Acaila

If %n fails, you can always use %x. (%x) will capture one-word increments of any combination of symbols (with the possible exception of the special characters), letters, and numbers. Thus, -1000, +1000, and 1000 will all match the pattern.

You might even be able to get something like ({+|-|}%d) to work as well.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

%n will match any number preceded or not preceded by a plus or minus sign.

I tried the pattern that you supplied:
.(%d)|(%d)/(%d)|(%d)/(%d)|(%n)|(%w)|(%w) -

and it works with no problems. This pattern matches all of these texts:
#sh ~.550|400/400|250/250|+1000|E|jdsds -
#sh ~.550|400/400|250/250|-1000|E|jdsds -
#sh ~.550|400/400|250/250|1000|E|jdsds -

so the problem has to be somewhere else.

Kjata