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Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 7

Hi there,

Up until recently I've been sharing a computer with a friend and playing muds on Zmud. To make the long story short and get to the gist of my problem, I am now using CMUD.

Back when I was using Zmud, I had triggers that I would use to remind me of the names of characters I had met (my mud is an rpi and uses descs)

The trigger goes like this #TRIGGER {A pale-skinned young man} {#sub (Tego);#CW Violet} "" {verbatim}

and what it would do was change the string: A pale-skinned young man to (Tego) A pale-skinned young man, adding the name to the start of the string but nothing else.

When I tried this in CMUD however, it would output the following instead.

(Tego)
#CW Violet

Is there a new syntax or variable that I should be using?

Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 5:51 pm

Actually, that would have been a bad script in zMUD too. The () around the argument is the wrong syntax, which zMUD didn't complain about, but CMUD doesn't like. The #SUB command always replaces the matching text with the value given to #SUB. So CMUD is actually doing what zMUD was supposed to be doing to...it is replacing your matching pattern string with (Tego). The fact that zMUD didn't replace the entire pattern with #SUB was a bug in zMUD.

The correct way to do this in CMUD is:

#TRIGGER {(A pale-skinned young man)} {#sub {(Tego) %1};#CW Violet} "" {verbatim}

Basically, putting () around the entire trigger pattern will load the matching result into %1, and the #SUB command will put (Tego) in front of the %1 matching text. The {} are used with #SUB to surround the argument properly.

Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 7

It was a bug I loved Laughing

Thanks very much Zugg. I like CMud a lot better than Zmud so I think I will be making the purchase soon.

Edit: That doesn't work either :(

#TRIGGER {(A pale-skinned young man)} {#sub {(Tego) %1};#CW Violet} "" {verbatim} does not fire at all, and when I changed it to:

#TRIGGER {A pale-skinned young man} {#sub {(Tego) %1};#CW Violet} "" {verbatim}

It did fire, however it gave me this:

(Tego) %1{(Tego) %1};#CW Violet

Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:19 pm

Oh, sorry, you need to get rid of the "verbatim" at the end. Otherwise it is trying to match () sent from the MUD. So just do:

#TRIGGER {(A pale-skinned young man)} {#sub {(Tego) %1};#CW Violet}

Also, I am considering a syntax for #SUB to add text to the beginning or end of a pattern for a future version, but we haven't settled on the proper syntax for that yet.

Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 7

I played around with it and managed to get it to display what I wanted but it feels like a crude fix.

#TRIGGER {A pale-skinned young man} {#SUB {(Tego) A pale-skinned young man} worked, without the color.

I tried:
#TRIGGER {(A pale-skinned young man)} {#sub {(Tego) %1};#CW Violet} but the output would still be (Tego) %1

I'm an idiot and had the special character for parameters (%) disabled... I enabled it and I'm testing it now.

edit: nope, didn't work despite enabling the special character. I'll fiddle with it some more tomorrow.

Thank you very much for your help Zugg.

Magician Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 364 Location: USA

Pretty sure you can't use #cw with #sub. What you want is the %ansi() function.

#TRIGGER {A pale-skinned young man} {#SUB {%ansi((%color(magenta) + %color(hi)))(Tego) A pale-skinned young man}

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:29 pm

Something is wrong with your preferences or there is some other script that is interfering with this. I just tested the original script in a blank session and it worked fine.

1) Run CMUD. Close the Session window
2) Type:
#TRIGGER {(A pale-skinned young man)} {#sub {(Tego) %1};#CW Violet}
3) Type:
#show {test A pale-skinned young man is here}

It displayed:
test (Tego) A pale-skinned young man is here

and the entire "(Tego) A pale-skinned young man" was in Violet as expected.

So it works fine for me here. #CW works fine with #SUB and the %1 works fine.