Zugg Software :: View topic - Triggers with special characters ([ ] & % etc)

Newbie Joined: 08 Feb 2002 Posts: 8

From time to time one of my triggers gets sent a line that holds one of zMUD's special characters. zMUD tells me it cannot parse the string because of it. How can I get it to parse the lines that have one of zMUD's reserved characters in it?

A typical error-line looks like this

an some stupid item & it's contents is...yada yada yada...Where "some stupid item & it's contents" is getting loaded into %1 and acted upon.

I hope I'm being clear. Thanks in advance.

Beginner Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 28 Location: Sweden

Not sure if I understood you correct but try this:




#trigger {You see a small bag ~& its content is: (%w)}

Then zMUD won't parse the special characters as an internal command, if you put a ~ before the charcaters you want to have in the trigger pattern.

Cheers,
Kaputchnik

GURU Joined: 15 Jun 2001 Posts: 654 Location: USA

If you are using * in your trigger pattern, use %*.

%* can match all characters.

- Charbal

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

If the trigger will never be dealing with wildcards or special characters (ie, you see %d coins here) as they were intended to be used, you can safely turn the trigger into a VERBATIM trigger.

That means that this pattern:

This* sucks

will match this line character for character:

This* sucks

but will not match something like this:

Thisannoyinglylongword sucks

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Newbie Joined: 08 Feb 2002 Posts: 8

I didn't think I explained it well enough...Charbal got it though. The pattern contains & and [**> <**} from time to time. I'll try the %*, thanks.