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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

So, yet another pattern-matching issue. I've used REGEX coach, but, unfortunately, I'm not sure how to get it to tell me what's wrong. It simply tells me whether oa pattern matches and where it stops matching. In this particular issue, the pattern will match, but one of the values is not being stored when it should.

Here's the REGEX:

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:43 pm

You're not seeing that since it's no longer optional, it's always going to look for that particular phrase. If you're always going to capture the fifth argument, I suggest changing your trigger to this:

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Yeah, I don't always want to capture the 5th argument. Also, I've noticed that, for some reason, my capture is also capturing spaces sometimes, which is definitely unintended. Here's what I wish to capture:

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:10 pm

Wait, are you only wanting to capture (lLeader) (Recruiter), or are you wanting to capture anything that has a rank? You're not being completely specific about /what/ you want to capture. Out of that who list you showed, show me what you're actually capturing (or wishing to, rather).

Charneus

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:22 pm

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

In response to your question, I wish to capture their Level, Class, Clan, Name and Rank. Everyone will have those values.

(Leader) and (Recruiter) are flags that only SOME people will have. However, of those, I wish to capture the (Leader) flag.

Anyone who has a (Leader) flag will also have a (Recruiter) flag, but the (Recruiter) flag is inconsequential, I don't care about it.

There are some people who have the (Recruiter) flag but NOT the (Leader) flag. In this case, I only want to capture Level, Class, Clan, Name, and Rank. I don't want to capture any flags.

Thanks for the responses, I will test them out and get back to you.

Edit: Tested
Yeah, I apologize. I thought I had been clear, but apparently I hadn't.
%1 = Level
%2 = Class
%3 = Clan
%4 = Name
%5 = Rank
%6 = Leader (if it doesn't exist, %6 should be = %null)

Here's the WHOLE trigger. Right now, the only thing of consequence is the pattern. Hence why I didn't share it, but if you feel it will help you gain a better understanding of what's wanted...

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:39 pm

Okay, so the (Leader) (Recruiter) or (Survival) (Recruiter) or even just (Recruiter) -- those are the flags you're talking about, and you only want to store the flags with the rank if it's a (Leader) only? Is that what you're saying? Or are you wanting to actually store flags as a 6th argument?

Charneus

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

(Survival) isn't actually a flag, it's part of Rank, it just looks like a flag because of the (), but should be stored with Rank, i.e:
%5 (Rank) = Lieutenant (Survival)
%6 is for the (Leader) flag only. The (Recruiter) will be in the line sometimes, but I don't want to store it in %6. If there is no (Leader) then %6 will be null. It will end up being null most of the time.

Edit: Also, I edited the post above with the results of the test. If the pattern in the copied and pasted trigger doesn't match yours, it's because I pasted my old one back in for the time being, but I did in fact test yours.

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:53 pm

Okay, perhaps this is what you're looking for, then:

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

What you've given me is slightly different (presumably more efficient) than mine, but it still has the same error with:

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:48 pm

Assuming (Survival) is the only 'rank addition, use this:

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Survival isn't the only rank addition, I just can't think of the others currently. However, I assume I can sub the word "Survival" with a more general statement? There's also the issue with any rank that comes after : as in:
Knight:Lance

Edit: Bleh, I didn't mean to come off as attacking. Just felt insulted, apologies.

Also, while changing Survival to \w+ worked marvelously, it, as you probably could have told me, added flags to people's ranks if the flag existed. Gaaaah.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Perhaps I should simply keep the pattern as I have it now, with your suggestion and my \w+ in place of survival and simply have code in the trigger that searches ranks for flags, notes them and trims them out?

Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:13 pm

The issue with any rank that comes after the : like in Knight:Lance was solved with my last regex.

As for a more general statement for other rank additions, your best bet is to create a list of rank additions and use that variable in place of the Survival, so it'd look like this:

(?:@rankadditions)

instead, or whatever variable you choose to use.

Charneus

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I decided to forgo the leader stuff, and simply have the flags trimmed out of rank. It works perfectly and I understand the differences. Thank you, and I do apologize that I couldn't communicate it clearly. Not for lack of trying though!