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Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

When I walk into a room, I see

(mob)A monsters name <and possibly a bunch of random other stuff, wounded, hit points, etc>

The (mob) is always constant no matter what.
A monsters name is stored in a list

What I want to do, is compare the list of items, to the partially matched line after (mob)... If it matches, I want it to output the matched name. So for example:

(mob)A mangy dog.
(mob)A feral cat [wounded] [89%].
(mob)A timid mouse (demoralized).
(mob)A slithering snake (injured) [dying] [5%].

The moblist contains: A mangy dog, A feral cat, etc.

I want the trigger to set the variable @curTarget to whatever the list matched.

I tried using a combination of %pos and %ismember, in an if statement, but nothing I tried got it to work properly.

Does anyone have a good solution to my trouble, please and thank you?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

#TRIGGER {^~(mob~)(@monsterNameList)} {curTarget=%1}

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Thanks for the lightning fast response, Vijilante, however that didn't work. I copied/pasted your trigger, and it fired on every single thing (I didn't have @monsterNameList defined) .. When I changed it to swampMobList, it just fails.

I already have another triggers using %ismember(@swampMobList) that works fine, so I know the list works. Any suggestions why this isn't working?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Yes you were supposed to changes the variable name, I am not a mind reader and your original post did not contain the correct name so I could not put it in.

As long as you have the variable name spelled correctly it should find it and even automatically update the pattern whenever the variable changes. I am assuming this is CMud you are using since that is the forum you posted in, zMud would need a different tactic. You can check that the variable was found by looking at the pattern testing tab. Make sure you do not have a null item in the list, because if the null is first then it will always match that and set the capture to "".

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

LOL I know you're not a mindreader, but when I copied and pasted it, that was my fault :) I just meant, that when I pasted it with the incorrect value, it would fire anytime it saw a mob, regardless of if it was in my list or not.

When I corrected it to use my list variable, it failed to match anything.

The current trigger is as follows.

<trigger priority="84310" id="8431">
<pattern>^~(mob~)(@swampMobList)</pattern>
<value>tell loftaris matched %1</value> <-- I just did this to show it's matching.. it never fires.
</trigger>

Yes, I am using CMud Pro on Windows 10. I tried editing the trigger, and manually pasting the trigger(edited) into the command line. Neither approach worked, it's not firing on the list. And the nul line was at the bottom, I removed it, and it still didn't help.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

You will have to play with it using the compiled pattern and pattern test tabs to try to diagnose what is going on. I don't see any reason it would not be working which just leaves the contents of the variable.

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

Try this: ^~(mob~)({@monsterNameList})

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2016 6:01 pm

Maybe the issue is that the list isn't properly delineated?

monsterNameList=%replace(@monsterNameList, ", ", "|")

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Thank you Daern, and Vijilante. putting the list inside {} fixed the problem!