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Newbie Joined: 05 May 2002 Posts: 1

Hello. I am writing a script to capture information about equipment to a database. My main problem is that some of the information is displayed in paragraph form, possibly broken up across lines.

Basically I am trying to combine these three triggers into one:

#TRIGGER {Strength of (%d)} ...


#TRIGGER {Strength of$(%d)} ...


#TRIGGER {Strength$of (%d)} ...

I have tried the following, and none of them work. Apparently the $ symbol does not function when inside of a list of options for a string to match.

#TRIGGER {Strength{$| }of{$| }(%d)} ...


#TRIGGER {Strength{ of |$of | of$}(%d)} ...

Is there any neater way to do this than have 3 triggers, one for every line break possibility? Some things even have 3 spaces, and so 4 possible arrangements of line breaks.

On a side note, is there a way to have a trigger that will fire multiple times within a line? So that...

Foo is 5, Bar is 8

being the text in the mud would cause this trigger

#TRIGGER {{Foo|Bar} is (%d)} ...

to fire twice, once with 5 in %1, once with 8?

Any help at all will be most appreciated, thanks.

-illusion

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

For the second question, the easiest way would be to make two triggers instead of one.

#TR {Foo is (%d)}
#TR {Bar is (%d)}

These will both fire on that sample line, with the appropriate numbers in %1.

As for the first question, three triggers is your best bet. You might be able to do it with one using trigger on prompt instead of trigger on newline, but I haven't tested it, don't recommend it, and don't really expect it to work.

LightBulb
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Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2001 Posts: 59 Location: Germany

Might be possible to collect the 'broken' lines in a variable, while #GAGing them on the screen,
and using #SHOW at the end of the sequence to display all of it in one line (so one trigger can work on it).

You'd need to find a pattern to start 'string collection', and one that tells the script that all the info has been received.
If or not this approach works completly depends on the mud output.