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Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

What is the command to clear a window? I know on the main window it is just clear...I tried :Items:clear which didnt work. Is there a simple command, because it is VERY important that I can clear window if needed.

Also, could I make zmud save a log file from a window as a .xml file instead of .txt? xml is plain text after all/

Reason I need to know this is I am capturing the output to a window, and want to have it save the log as an .xml file, and I have a webpage which will read the .xml file and make everything all nice and tidy in a table :)

Evangelist
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GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Clearing:

:items:#CLR

xml is plain text?

#FILE 1 c:blahblahitems.xml
Then write to file 1 to set up headers and stuff.
#CLOSE 1
:items:#LOG c:blahblahitems.xml
#FILE 1 c:blahblahitems.xml
Then write to file 1 to set up footers and stuff.
#CLOSE 1

Edit: I alert you to the fact that you can:
View->Preferences->General
Under General->Logging
[ ] Log after triggers

Ton Diening

Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

What if I already have the .xml file in existence? Can I just do :Items:#Log items.xml? I want it to update the existing file though, doing it that way, I am not sure as to if it would replace it or not.

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

RTM

"If you open an existing log file, the results will be appended unless you specify "new" as the second parameter in which case a new log file is created."

It's right there in plain language in the helpfile for #LOG.

LightBulb
Senior Member

GURU Joined: 24 Sep 2000 Posts: 1237 Location: USA

By the way, while XML is "plain text", it's tagged. i.e.
<Log>
<Date>8/26/2002</Date>
<Entry>Today I answered a post on XML</Entry>
</log>

zMUD won't do the tagging for you, obviously... you'll have to set that up somehow on your own, probably with triggers that #Write to the log-#file

zMUD 6 Online Help: All the power you'll ever need.

Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

Object Name: &name is &type and made of &material~.

#window Items {~<~object~>}
#window Items {~<~name~>@name~<~/~name~>}
#window Items {~<~type~>@type~<~/~type~>}
#window Items {~<~material~>@material~<~/~material~>}

It could probably be done cleaner, but it works for my purposes atm. Im running into a problem with spaces though.

Like, here is small two line output.

[ 57 - Cle-Ari ] [efGd afk] Pirku (Mord'Sith)
[ 60 - War-Hum ] [efGd afk] Friedal (Warlord Angels)

My trigger is set up as:
~[~efGd afk~] &whoname ~(&Clan~)
#WINDOW Who ~<~Identity~>
#WINDOW Who ~<~Name~>@whoname~<~/~Name~>
#WINDOW Who ~<~Clan~>@Clan~<~/~Clan~>
#WINDOW Who ~<~/~Identify~>

The problem is, when I capture it, i get the blank spaces from the end of their name to the (. so it look like:

|Identity|
|Name|Xxanth&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp|/Name|
|Clan|Warlord Mord'Sith|/Clan|
|/Identify|
|Identity|
|Name|Anshar&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp|/Name|
|Clan|Han'yake|/Clan|
|/Identify|

The || Are really > and < but I could not insert those in this post, no biggie. I am unaware how to get rid of the space after Anshar and Xxanth. Any ideas how to trim off spaces?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Drum roll...

Try the %trim function.

Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

Well, I had tried having

#WINDOW Who ~<~NAME~>%trim{@whoname~<~/~NAME~>}

#WINDOW Who ~<~NAME~>%trim(@whoname)~<~/~NAME~>

#WINDOW Who ~<~NAME~>%trim @whoname ~<~/~NAME~>

None of those worked, and I did look at that file...didn't get it to work though so I figured I had been doing it wrong. Obviously I have.

I gotta be on the right track...but I can't get past it :(

Evangelist
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GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

How about typecasting the trigger:

quote:

You have 1000gp

you would use a trigger:

#TRIGGER {You have &%d{Gold}gp}

which will only match digits and will properly set the @Gold variable to 1000.

My trigger is set up as:
~[~efGd afk~] &%x{whoname} ~(&Clan~)

%x or %w

Don't know if your mud allows odd characters in the name.

Ton Diening

Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

I took out the %x and it worked.

I did run into a small problem just now though.

[ 41 - Thi-Kob ] [efGd afk] Zeek (Exodus)
[ 35 - War-Min ] [efgd afk] Memnoch

My trigger is set to catch the players name and then their clan inside of ()....I just realized it the person is not in clan, after their name there is nothing...and their name is not captures.

I tried taking out the end part to catch the clan, but then it captures everyones name as Namehere Leader Raven .... and Namehere.... is there a way for me to alter it some?

Like, how could I make a trigger to catch the name of the people not in clan, without duplicating entries of people who are in clan?

Evangelist
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GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada




[  41  -  Thi-Kob  ] [efGd afk] Zeek       (Exodus) <endofline


[  35  -  War-Min  ] [efgd afk] Memnoch    <endofline

#TRIGGER {^~[~efGd afk~] &%w{whoname} ~(&Clan~)%s$} {#NOOP blah}
#TRIGGER {^~[~efGd afk~] &%w{whoname}%s$} {#NOOP blah}

Lock the trigger to match the end with $ and from the beginning with ^

Ton Diening

Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

I played around with them but to no avail.Are there any other approaches I could possibly take? I thought about limited the number of character that @whoname will display, but that will cut off the clan affiliation if I only use one trigger, and using two will give me dupes.

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

What exactly did you modify? How exactly does it not work?

Going from what you provided and what Ton suggested, neither of the two triggers should match on a line they are not supposed to. The first trigger has a pattern of:
^~[~efGd afk~] &%w{whoname} ~(&Clan~)%s$

since "[efGd afk]" is not the beginning of the line, you should probably remove the ^ from the pattern (same goes for the second trigger) and you end up with:
~[~efGd afk~] &%w{whoname} ~(&Clan~)%s$

this pattern will not match this line:
[ 35 - War-Min ] [efgd afk] Memnoch

Likewise, this pattern:
~[~efGd afk~] &%w{whoname}%s$

will not match this line:
[ 41 - Thi-Kob ] [efGd afk] Zeek (Exodus)

Kjata

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Bah sorry about that, oversight on my part, didn't check real mud output before anchoring.

This is also a good place to use fix width matching

quote:

&nn matches exactly nn characters (fixed width pattern)

Ton Diening

Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

not currently at home, but could I do something like...

^~[*~] ~[~efGd afk~] &%w{whoname}%s$

and

^~[*~] ~[~efGd afk~] &%w{whoname} ~(&Clan~)%s$

btw, what do the %s$ do? Just end the line?

Evangelist
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GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

%s matches the white space that seems to trail the users name and the clan designation.




[  41  -  Thi-Kob  ] [efGd afk] Zeek       (Exodus) <endofline


[  35  -  War-Min  ] [efgd afk] Memnoch    <endofline

See how Memnoch and (Exodus) has space before the endofline?

Well we have to account for that before we anchor it with the $.
$ means we match it exactly from the end of line.
^ means we match it exactly from the begininning of the line.

It reduces spoofing.

Ton Diening

Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

Didn't post when I tried, hehe, here goes. Thanks so much for the help. I used the

^~[*~] ~[~efGd afk~] &%w{whoname}%s$

to capture people without clans, and my original trigger to capture the ones who are in clans. Thank you immensely.

I plan on doing this for the who list, the different clan outputs and stuff...I am currently working on making a hyperlinked html page from the list of clans command, then having it trigger to get clan information for each and saving it in an xml file..sorta a self updating website, as long as I am signed in :)

Thanks again for the help, I might be asking for more of it soon :)

Evangelist
www.phidar.com