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miegorengman
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 6:48 am   

converting a large inventory into a list variable
 
I would like to capture all the text following "It Contains:" up to the period, and make it into a single list variable.

A chest made of solid rubber wood.
It contains:
a etched iron greatsword, 27 doritos, a shell, 2 frog teeth, 20 square feet of
tie died cloth, a very smelly sphere, a muddy iron greatsword, a etched iron
greatsword, a muddy iron bastard sword, a etched iron bastard sword, a muddy
iron greatsword, a etched iron greatsword, a muddy iron bastard sword, a etched
iron bastard sword, a muddy iron greatsword, a etched iron greatsword, a
bottle-green glass jug of red giggle juice, a muddy iron bastard sword, a parascope,
73 snaileggs, 11 gutsacks, 5 tropical leather thongs, a somewhat short beaded
rope, a etched iron bastard sword, an etched iron greatsword, a muddy iron
greatsword, a muddy iron greatsword, a etched iron greatsword, a lizardsilk hood,
28 spools of liver thread, an open silted flask, a skin tunic, 9 hunks of funky stuff, a
golden owl tunic, 69 square feet of fresh goldenrod skin.


At this point I have a working trigger that will grab the line immediately following "It Contains:", replace all the commas with a pipe, and remove the period, and assign the list to a string variable. I am just a little confused about how to grab the entire contents of "It Contains:"


Here is what I have so far, which works well as long as the contents are only on the line immediately following "It Contains:"


Code:
<pattern>It contains:$(*)</pattern>
  <value>#var rubberChestList {%remove(".",%replace(%1,", ","|"))}
</trigger>
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shalimar
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 9:18 am   
 
You need a stated trigger, something like this:

Code:
#TR {It contains:} {contents=""}
#COND {*} {
  contents=%concat(@contents, %line)
  #IF (%ends(%trim(%line), ".")) {contents=%remove(".",%replace(@contents,", ","|"))} {#STATE 1}
  } {within|param=1}
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miegorengman
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:34 pm   
 
it works perfectly...now I just have to understand it. Thanks again shalimar :)
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shalimar
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2022 4:36 pm   
 
It's a 2 state trigger, only numbering starts at 0.

State 0
Just resets the Variable

State 1
Is of type within, with a param of 1.
This means: check the next one line for this pattern before resetting to state 0.

Adds the current line to the variable.
Then checks to see if the line ends in a period.
-- If it does, it's done and uses the code from your example.
-- If it doesn't, the trigger is told to reset to state 1 so it again checks one line.
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