Zugg Software :: View topic - Triggering on lines of text that contain @

Newbie Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 7

I have a trigger with a pattern of:
^(*)$

Inside the trigger I try to store the entire line of text into a variable:
lastlineoftext01={%1}

This seems to simply ignore lines of text from the mud that contain @.

I thought about trying: lastlineoftext01={%literal( %1)}
but I figure that this will just set the variable equal to %1 when I really want the contents of %1.

Any suggestsions?

Thanks!

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Try using:
%quote("%1")

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 7

I tried that without success...

My attempt was:
lastlineoftext01=%stripansi( %quote( {%1}))

It seems like the trigger does not even fire on the line of text at all.
Do I need to change something in the pattern? Currently: ^(*)$

Any other ideas?

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

I believe you need %* to match special characters. I've never seen this documented anywhere but it's mentioned frequently in this forum.

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SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

When using %* to capture special characters I recommend you do it in 1 of three fashions. I will list them in order of safety...

#TR {^(%*)$} {blah;blah;#VAR capturedline %quote(%trigger);blah;blah}
#TR {^&%*{capturedline}$} {blah;blah;#VAR capturedline %quote(@capturedline);blah;blah}
#TR {^(%*)$} {blah;blah;#VAR capturedline %quote(%param(1));blah;blah}

The first works off the trigger predefined variable and hence avoids some problems with mismatched "'s that can occur. The second captures the raw line from the mud to a variable, and avoids most all problems that special characters can cause. The third is the method that Zugg recommended a while ago.
I use the second myself.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

It's documented in the help file, but not somewhere you'd think to look. It's in the help entry for the #ONINPUT command.

Kjata