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Beginner Joined: 16 Oct 2002 Posts: 10 Location: USA

Ok I play on a circle based mud in case that helps.

My question is this. when a clan member says

[CLAN]: Belgarath says, 'ts kowz'.

I want to automaticaly cast the spell

cast true belgarath

this is what was given before to try and it didnt work although i have messed with it still cant get it to cast the spell for me.

#TR {~[CLAN~] %w says, ~'ts (%w)} {#T+ truesight;cast true %1}

thank you

GURU Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 556 Location: USA

The parameter which you wish to capture is the one you must enclose in parentheses. Since you wish to capture the name, you must enclose the first %w, not the second.

#TR {~[CLAN~] (%w) says, ~'ts %w} {#T+ truesight;cast true %1}

Troubadour

(Win 98, Pentium III, 550 MHz)

Beginner Joined: 16 Oct 2002 Posts: 10 Location: USA

Nope that didnt work either...I think there is more wrong with the command then just that but not sure what.. Even if I was in the ballpark I would at least think I would get a HUH? msg but not getting any kind of error msg so not sure what to look at to fix.

Wanderer Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 96

*smacks Troubador with a clue-by-four*

What happens to the colon in the trigger text??? You left it out of the trigger.

Try:

#TR {~[CLAN~]: (%w) says, ~'ts %w} {#T+ truesight;cast true %1}

Not sure offhand if the colon needs a ~ in front of it.... if this doesn't work, try it with a ~.

Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 152 Location: USA

In both of your examples, i noticed the : missing from your trigger patterns. Does this work?:

#TR {~[CLAN~]~: (%w) says, ~'ts kowz} {#T+ truesight;cast true %1}

*edit* beat me to it Lalaynya, *teehee*

GURU Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 556 Location: USA

Meh. Yeah, I focused in on the parentheses and neglected to compare to the original message. Btw, neither the colon or the single-quote needs a quote character (~) in front.

Troubadour

(Win 98, Pentium III, 550 MHz)

Beginner Joined: 16 Oct 2002 Posts: 10 Location: USA

ok on reading back i screwed up on origanal message.. i wrote

[CLAN]: Belgarath says, 'ts kowz'.

I want to automaticaly cast the spell

cast true belgarath

but what i really need is to cast true on Kowz NOT Belgarath or the person they want to true see as for the commands so far given..they have not worked yet..still playing with the configuration though trying to get it to work..sorry for the mix up and thanks for helping.

Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 152 Location: USA

Ok, then it's back to your original trigger. All thats missing is to include the colon in your trigger as far as i can see

#TR {~[CLAN~]: %w says, 'ts (%w)} {#T+ truesight;cast true %1}

pertaining to your use of #T+ truesight, is that a class, or is it a single trigger? Hopefully it's not the ID of _this_ trigger, because it will never fire if it starts off disabled.

Beginner Joined: 16 Oct 2002 Posts: 10 Location: USA

Ok now i have kinna sorta got it now..but my problem is this..it gets TO litteral on the casting.. what i mean is this

[CLAN]: Belgarath says, 'ts kowz'.

now when it casts the spell or attempts to cast it it also grabs what is after the name as well in this case the '. and the spell backfires cuz it dosnt know what that is connected to the name..i am not sure even how to ask how to fix this so it will cast the spell on just the name as in c true kowz not c true kowz'. it is so close to working its not funny and pulling my hair out here ha ha ha ha thanks again

Apprentice Joined: 03 Jan 2002 Posts: 152 Location: USA

Hmm, that's odd. It shouldn't be picking up that last ' as part of %1, because the %w wildcard only matches words as far as i know. At any rate, it should just be a matter of adding the ' to the pattern, like so.

#TR {~[CLAN~]: %w says, 'ts (%w)'} {#T+ truesight;cast true %1}

Newbie Joined: 26 Oct 2002 Posts: 3 Location: Sweden

pattern:
~[CLAN~]: (%w) says, '(%*)'.

command:
#T+ truesight;cast true %lower( %1)

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

Use doomfyre's one instead. Karnov's trigger also works, but it is unsafe to use %* to match what you want, and in the way it is used in the commands of the trigger, it allows for possible abuse.

Kjata