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Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

I'm trying to capture the monsters name, but it's not exactly convenient.

The format typically looks like this:

(mob)Jeff.
(mob)George.

etc..

However, the name changes all the time, it can sometimes be two names(never more), and there's other bits and pieces that may be added.. Some examples:

(mob)Frank Sr
(mob)Frank Sr attacking you!.
(mob)Frank Sr [wounded] [34%] attacking you!. (wounded can also be scratched or dying)
(mob)Jason [scratched] [95%].

Out of all of that, I ONLY want to capture the mobs name if it's 1 or 2 words, I want to ignore everything after that, the wounded, % and attacking you!

I can't figure out a nice way to do that :(

Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2017 8:55 pm

#TR (~(mob~) ({%w|%w %w}){%s|%p}} {$mob=%replace(%1, " attacking")}

Something like that should work, but I didn't test it.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

It doesn't quite work. I had to fix the ({ mistakes, but even then it still fails if the monster has [50%] added on. Also I forgot to mention sometimes the monster will have a title after it

(mob)Billy Bob (super strong) [wounded] [40%] attacking you!.

That would be the most complex the title gets, and from that I only want Billy Bob...

Would it be easier to perhaps make multiple triggers than 1 complex trigger? This is a little beyond my abilities.

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2017 9:24 pm

well the pattern should already account for the title there in the generic way it is defined, the biggest issue I see that I made was inserting a space after the (mob)