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miegorengman
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 Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 4:16 am
CMUD triggering with special characters
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I would like to trigger off text that includes special characters and I am at a loss for how to tell CMUD something like an asterisk is just a normal character in this context 
for example, I want to trigger off the following line of text and grab the number following the asterisk and add it to a variable list. to make the pattern as flexible as possible I tried to only use the initial asterisk and the opening bracket as a reference
*423 [Mar 15, 2021] March Reboot (Gaborn)
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<trigger priority="35130" id="3513">
<pattern>*(*) [</pattern>
<value>#var unreadnotes %additem(%1,@unreadnotes)
</trigger>
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hpoonis2010
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 8:13 pm
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Escape everything not a regular character...which will assure you get what you want.
<pattern>~*~(~*~) ~[</pattern> |
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shalimar
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 9:13 pm
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#TR {~*(%d) ~[} {#var unreadnotes %additem(%1,@unreadnotes)}
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miegorengman
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2022 11:47 pm
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thank you very much. i tried both ideas and neither added to the list. i tried
and it worked. thank you for the help
your knowledge has inspired related questions:
Q. so the ~ character, it "escapes" the next character only? or does more than that?
Q. i have seen %d in use but dob't really understands what it is and how to use it properly. i have also seen %w. is this effectively the same thing? are these temporary variables?
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shalimar
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:23 am
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Correct, ~ escapes (makes the parser ignore any special uses for) the character immediately following it. That is all.
In '#HELP #TRIGGER' there is a link to 'pattern matching symbols'.
I prefer to use typed wildcards to make for a tighter pattern.
* is the most greedy wildcard there is, any amount of any characters
%d matches unsigned numeric values
%w is for single words |
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miegorengman
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 4:37 am
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thanks again.
I am now working on the output side of this program and %pop is really nice, but I have just realize that I am sending 423 to the mud instead of read 423. So my thought is I need to include read in what the trigger is saving to the list, or I need to somehow %concat read and %pop (unreadnotes)
In hopes of concatenate read and 423 i tried the following. The fire but do not compile:
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#var unreadnotes %additem (%concat ("read", %1),@unreadnotes)
#var unreadnotes %additem (%exec("%concat ("read", %1)"),@unreadnotes)
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I then tried to concatenate read and %pop (unreadnotes)
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#send {read }%pop (unreadnotes)
#send read %pop (unreadnotes)
#send read|%pop (unreadnotes)
#EXEC {%concat("#send read ","%pop (unreadnotes)")}
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in most cases the above results in an error parsing command. It seems that trying to combine %pop with other functions appears to make %pop no longer see what is in the brackets as a variable. I am not working in xml much, usually the GUI, and normally the variable appears as a green when %pop likes it, then turns to black when you have combined it with other funtions.
It seems reasonable that both methods should work, I just can't find enough bailing twine to cobble this together from the help files an forums.
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shalimar
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 6:05 am
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You seem to keep leaving a space between various functions and their opening parentheses.
This causes them to 'lose' the parameters you are trying to pass them.
Try:
#var unreadnotes %additem(%concat("read ", %1),@unreadnotes)
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miegorengman
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 3:25 pm
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I stumbled on an answer to adding read and 423 together...it worky
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| #var unreadnotes %additem("read "%1,@unreadnotes) |
if anyone has any ideas for mixing %pop with #send or something of that nature I think it will be very handy for something in the future :)
:EDIT
I posted this after midnight last night but for some reason I am only seeing it registering now...interesting
thank you shalimar, I will try to pay better attention to spacing, I appear to be adding it and leaving it out at random. |
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miegorengman
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 3:34 pm
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read %pop(unreadnotes) works great :)
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