Zugg Software :: View topic - Multiline Description Capture Into Variable (Newlines Preserved)

Novice Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 45

I want to create a trigger that captures the text between the tags, with newlines preserved, and stores it into a variable. I want to do this without creating a secondary capture trigger and using #t+/#t-, or creating some sort of "CurrentlyCapturingDesc" boolean variable. (I would prefer to do it with a multistate trigger.) Is it possible?

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

With newlines preserved? What do you intend to do with the variable afterwards? Carriage returns imbedded in variables can cause problems, depending on what you intend to do with it.

Yes, this could be done with a multistate trigger. Name the trigger something like "DescCap". State 0 of the trigger would fire on "{rdesc}" and probably should clear the variable, just to be sure it is blank. State 1 of the trigger should be a Manual type, with a pattern of "(*)". This state would concatenate a carriage return and the captured line to the variable. There are two ways of ending the capture and resetting the state:
1) Have state 1 of the trigger test whether the line is "{/rdesc}", and if so, execute: #STATE DescCap 0; #EXIT
2) Have state 0 of the trigger enable a secondary trigger named DescCapEnd whose pattern is "{/rdesc}". This secondary trigger would execute: #STATE DescCap;#T- DescCapEnd

Novice Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 45

I'm just going to use a #call %roomdesc to put it into the mapper. Aardwolf doesn't send the room description through GMCP (and it would be dumb if it did, so I'm glad it doesn't :P), so that's the only thing the mapper doesn't get automatically. I'll just make a quick little macro I can press to update the description of the room I'm in with the one I most recently saw.

Novice Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 45

Yeah, that works. I'm assuming "%crlf" is the correct way to embed a newline?

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Yes, %crlf is correct. Did you get it to work?

Novice Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 45

Yes, it works perfectly. Thank you. :-)

Apprentice Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 145

Is there no command in your mud to turn off server-side linewrapping?

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

Nope, Aardwolf doesn't do linewrapping. There are places (room descriptions, note editor, etc) where the line is limited to around 80 characters, but other than that it all comes in one giant line.