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Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 120

please help... hi hi, my mud has the following output,

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This quest is to hunt down 'The cloaker' (Underdark), 'an oversized
dragon' (Cloudy Mountain) and 'a xaren' (Underdark). Kill all three
to claim 52000 gold, 300 exp and 30 kp.
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1) I was hoping to capture:
a) 'The cloaker' as @mob1,
b) 'an oversized winged dragon' as @mob2
c) 'a xaren' as @mob3

However most of the time @mob2 is captured wrongly because carriage return... would anyone know how to best capture it?

I was wondering if I can combine both lines first and than extracting the mob1, mob2 and mob3?

2) how can i remove "a" "an" and "The" from the 3 variables?

thanks in advance..... many appreciation...

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:22 pm

In this case, we have to append lines together with %concat.
Seeing as it spans several lines we need a multistate trigger.
We use %ends to see which line ends in a period, so we know when to actually test our results.
And the %match is used on the finished product, testing against a known pattern and setting variables (essentially a trigger in a function).

#TR {This quest is to hunt down} {questLine=%line}
#COND {*} {
questLine=%concat(@questLine, %line)
#IF (%ends(%line, ".")) {#CALL %match(@questLine, "This quest is to hunt down 'The cloaker' ~((*)~), 'an oversized dragon' ~((*)~) and 'a xaren' ~((*)~).", mob1, mob2, mob3)} {#STATE 1}
} {within|param=1}

Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 120

WOW SHALIMAR!! NICE!! works!!

Currently I'm using the below to remove the A, a, An, an, The, the? is there any nicer way?

*the below method causes some to be remove in correctly... "Santa Claus" became "Sant Claus"

Mob1=%REMOVE("A ",@Mob1)
Mob1=%REMOVE("a ",@Mob1)
Mob1=%REMOVE("An ",@Mob1)
Mob1=%REMOVE("an ",@Mob1)
Mob1=%REMOVE("The ",@Mob1)
Mob1=%REMOVE("the ",@Mob1)

Mob2=%REMOVE("A ",@Mob2)
Mob2=%REMOVE("a ",@Mob2)
Mob2=%REMOVE("An ",@Mob2)
Mob2=%REMOVE("an ",@Mob2)
Mob2=%REMOVE("The ",@Mob2)
Mob2=%REMOVE("the ",@Mob2)

Mob3=%REMOVE("A ",@Mob3)
Mob3=%REMOVE("a ",@Mob3)
Mob3=%REMOVE("An ",@Mob3)
Mob3=%REMOVE("an ",@Mob3)
Mob3=%REMOVE("The ",@Mob3)
Mob3=%REMOVE("the ",@Mob3)

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:46 pm

The issue here is that you are trying to remove whole words from a given string, without ensuring you are only working with whole words.
So... i am converting each variable string into an array of whole words (%replace), deleting the member we want (%delitem), then converting it back into a string (%replace).

#FORALL "a|A|an|An|the|The" {
mob1=%replace(%delitem(%i, %replace(%trim(@mob1), " ", "|")), "|", " ")
mob2=%replace(%delitem(%i, %replace(%trim(@mob2), " ", "|")), "|", " ")
mob3=%replace(%delitem(%i, %replace(%trim(@mob3), " ", "|")), "|", " ")
}

Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 120

wow.. works perfectly...

although i didnt understand what is "%i"

Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 5:20 pm

%i is the current iteration of the #FORALL loop

Apprentice Joined: 01 Sep 2005 Posts: 120

Ah.. understood. Thanks.. o am getting better