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Beginner Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Australia

Hi
I am useing cmud. I am trying to capture multipul lines after a line I can use as the trigger upto another line that I can use as the ending trigger. The output from the mud is.

You know the following defensive magic spells:
Endorphin's Floating Friend Transcendent Pneumatic Alleviator

You know the following offensive magic spells:
Kamikaze Oryctolagus Flammula Narquin's Mist of Doom
Nargl'frob's Empyrean Spear Pragi's Fiery Gaze

You know the following misc magic spells:
Collatrap's Instant Pickling Stick Jogloran's Portal of Cheaper Travel
Floron's Fabulous Mirror Master Woddeley's Luminescent Companion

I would like to have the line You know the following defensive magic spells: as the starting trigger and capture all the words upto You know the following offensive magic spells I would be putting the words Endorphin's Floating Friend Transcendent Pneumatic Alleviator into a variable and from there I would like to put them into a database. I would like to be able to repeat the process on the other sections so I can collect the infomation between offensive spells and misc spellsl. I would be collecting the information Kamikaze Oryctolagus Flammula Narquin's Mist of Doom Nargl'frob's Empyrean Spear Pragi's Fiery Gaze which in over several lines and do the same for the misc spells.

The information changes depending on what spells I have.

I have spent some time on trying to figure out how to get this information and have tryed things like cond command makeing string lists and other ways. My problem is I can't work out how to get the lines that follow a tigger line into a variable which I hope I can then phase to put into a database and build up infomation on all my spells so I can be informed about them. I can then gather further infomaiton from other trigger lines but for now I am stuck on getting the lines that follow in the above starting example.

Please advise on the commands and format to do this

Thank you
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Wanderer Joined: 24 Aug 2012 Posts: 70

I like this question and it opened up a complete world of scripting for me.

I just got through posting a suedo example here: http://forums.zuggsoft.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37918

For the above example, I had a trigger that started it all, and it started it with the #T+ command. It is most effective when the collection triggers are in a separate CLASS. My example was DESCRIPTION.

In description I used {(%*)} as my trigger line. It captures the line and sends it to the predefined variable %1.

When the following lines are concatenated, I know I am done when I get to "Obvious exits:".

So I set this trigger line to disable the DESCRIPTION class thus turning off the ability to capture every line.

#TRIGGER {Obvious exits:} {#T- {DESCRIPTION}}

Wanderer Joined: 24 Aug 2012 Posts: 70

Oh, and I didn't just avoid answering your question, it just that your situation is not completely divulged. What are you going to do with this variable? Is the information going into a database? Are you keeping it resident in memory? Without that, I can't tell you how to do it in your situation. I can show you more on how I did it. Here is an item collection database script I use.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

What is your prompt line? You have to have someway to disable the capture trigger after each list and you wouldn't want the next list to do the job because there is no next list after the last one.

I assume it would look like the following using > as the prompt:

You know the following defensive magic spells:
Endorphin's Floating Friend Transcendent Pneumatic Alleviator
>
You know the following offensive magic spells:
Kamikaze Oryctolagus Flammula Narquin's Mist of Doom
Nargl'frob's Empyrean Spear Pragi's Fiery Gaze
>
You know the following misc magic spells:
Collatrap's Instant Pickling Stick Jogloran's Portal of Cheaper Travel
Floron's Fabulous Mirror Master Woddeley's Luminescent Companion
>

Try something like the following which would capture and add each spell to a corresponding list variable.