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hpoonis2010
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 6:56 pm   

Capturing data
 
Here's an example:-


Code:
You are carrying:
     (Glow) a Pink coloured wig (2)
     (Magic) an ultimate guitar (18)
     a colorful bikini (7)
     a colorful bikini (11)
     a colorful bikini (10)
( 2) a colorful bikini (8)
( 2) a colorful bikini (5)
     a life-size human figure (15)
     (Invis) a "RAYNER" brand sports-bra (1)
( 2) a colorful bikini (6)
     (Magic) a pink flamingo (1)
     a tobacco pouch (5)
     (Magic) a fishing permit (10)
     (Magic) an entry pass (1)
     (Glow) (Hum) a ticket to Mississippi (10)
     (Glow) (Hum) a ticket to Texas (10)
     (K) (Magic) Swift Galleon (1)
( 3) (K) (Magic) (Glow) (Hum) a Bag of Aardwolf (201)
     (K) (Magic) (Glow) (Hum) hide of a hairless cat (55)
( 2) ** Items on Keyring **


What I am after are the items with prefix'd digits at the start of the line. These are multiples of the same item. The bracketed digits at the end are the item level. Having more items within brackets doesn't help with pattern matching.

I am trying to pack away all but one of each item as my Id triggers may be causing application errors, which in turn cause anything in a package outside of the main 'window' to freak out.

for (all multiple items)-1, stow away...BUT...

the last several items are always there, those with (K). So I would wish to avoid those...plus one cannot put a container into a container, but they make pattern matching a headache as we want the first group of (%d) and we want the name, (eg) a colourful bikini, but we don't need the rest of the line.

Any brainy ideas?
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shalimar
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 9:27 pm   
 
Well, there is no way to tell which items are containers, that I can tell.
I mean sure, we know that pouches and bags are containers, but we have to tell code somehow.

#TR {{~( ($num:%d)~)|}%s{~(Magic~) |}{~(Glow~) |}{~(Hum~) |}{~(Invis~) }|}($item:*) ~(($level:%d)~)} {Do stuff with $num $item and $level}

If it has the (K) it should not match this trigger.
(Invis) may be in the wrong order if it can appear with other tags.
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hpoonis2010
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:00 am   
 
I think the order is fine...however, not all items invis are humming, not all items that hum are invis, not all items that are either glow.

The containers part is not THAT important as I factored a trigger for "you cannot put <a> into <b>"

However, the documentation stipulates that negated patterns can be used although I am not sure how that works in a trigger.

So, is it not possible to

#TR {search pattern {^sub-pattern} rest of pattern} {actions}

in the trigger?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:11 am   
 
Those are all optional tags via:

{~(Glow~) |}

That is an anonymous variable with a null member. It will match weather "(Glow) " is there (with the trailing space), or not.

And yes, negated subpatterns can be used, if you are having an issue with too many matches.
For example:

#TR {"[^"]"} {#CW aqua}

That tells it to look for two quotes, without any quotes between them, to properly match speech and color what was said.
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