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PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2009 12:49 pm   

Using Zmud trigger parse expressions... {item|item|item}
 
is there a way to check for something like space, or no space?
I want to make triggers with optional params, but I would like to not use (*)

ie:
@leader: assist
@leader: assist joe

I would like to write something like
@leader:{ |}(%w) or @leader:{ (%w)|}
([space]word|[or nothing])
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PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2009 12:55 pm   
 
I guess I could settle for regex, 1 space 1 word optional...
but since I am not using any regex I wanted to keep everything uniform.
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PostPosted: Wed May 06, 2009 5:01 pm   
 
There's an option, somewhere, to enable wildcards inside {item|item}. It's disabled by default.

However, there are some things that regex is simply better at. Why not use it where it's useful?
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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 2:28 am   
 
Oh well, I've had like thousands of lines of zmud script dating all the way back to the early 90's
regex I don't know existed back then...
and I'm not so great at regex so...
I was just saying,

I don't so much need wildcards inside lists, (it should be on)
but what I want is...
a trigger, that accepts params optionally,
but if I code in for the space, the space is required...

so
@leader: heal
or
@leader: heal joe

where heal would default the spell target to myself.
the heal joe would heal joe...
if I do
#trig {@leader: heal (%w)}
the word is optional (%1 will be empty)
but the space between is not...


I said I will throw some regex in here if I have to, I just wondered if there was a zmud syntax to do it,
{ |""} doesn't work, etc.
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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:03 am   
 
{whatever|} should work - but if not, just use a regex. You can learn about them here.
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