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Beginner Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 19

I am using version 5.55 btw...
I need to have a trigger that can go off even if the first part of the pattern is recieved in one line and the second part in the next. is this possible? how can it be done?
Thank you very much
Turbomudder

Beginner Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 19

I appologize, I should have been much more specific...
I'm trying to get a trigger that will capture the herbs that are in this basket...

The herb basket (open) contains: three small green berries, two pink pretty flowers, a strange green plant, two irregular green fruits, three small black roots, and a tiny red berry.

So i want to do a trigger like {a|an|two|three} (*){,|.}
in a class that is turned on by a trigger on "The herb basket (open) contains:"

but very often the {a|an} part comes on one line and the herb{,|.} part comes on the next (or the break might be in between the small and the green in "small green berry"... etc

thanks for any help,
Turbomudder

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

I'm going to provide a trigger that works with version 6.40. You should try it out because it really is so much better. However, if for some reason, you are absolutely convinced that you do not want to use 6.40, then there are ways to do it in 5.55 too. The trigger for 6.40 is:
#TRIGGER "grabherbs" {The herb basket*contains: (*)} {#IF (!%ends("%1", ".")) {#STATE grabherbs 1}} "" {manual}
#COND {(*)} {#IF (%ends("%1", ".")) {#STATE grabherbs 0}} {manual}

Just put what you want to do witht the matched text (stored in %1) before the #IF's. You should probably add it all to a variable and then do something with the variable in the part of the #IF in the second state where it executes "#STATE grabherbs 0".

Kjata

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

The first thing I'd recommend is to make sure you don't just have a long line that zMUD wrapped. This will show you how long the actual line is:
#CW {^The herb basket*contains:*} {blink,red}
If it's all one line, you can just use a one-line trigger. (I'd delete the #CW trigger after a few tests)
#TR {^The herb basket*contains: (*).} {#VAR HerbBasketContents {%1}}

If it's on multiple lines,
#TR {^The herb basket*contains: (*)} {#VAR HerbBasketContents {%1};#IF %ends("%1", ".") {} {#T+ HerbBasket}}
#TR {^(*)$} {#VAR HerbBasketContents {@HerbBasketContents %1};#IF %ends("%1", ".") {#T- HerbBasket}} {HerbBasket}

As Kjata said, there's much to be gained by upgrading.

LightBulb
Senior Member

Beginner Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 19

Thanks guys, the ^(*)$ thing is key...
as far as upgrading, there are some things that sound great like state functions. I use the trigger, alias, mapping, variable, programming capabilities of zmud extencively and I really would like to use the better version. the thing is I rely on it so heavily, that i would be devestated if i lost or had to reprogram any of my bots. So thats why I dont switch, im worried that some of the things I already rely on wont work..
thanks again
Turbomudder

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

That's what backups are for. Back up all of your scripts and then upgrade. If things don't work out, you can revert to the previous version. Also, Zugg has never removed functionality in any upgrade, so all of your scripts should work with no problems.

Kjata

Beginner Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 19

Okay now ive got a further delemma with this... it seems a trigger will only fire once per line.
Im trying to get a variable that ends up like this :
"strange green plants|tiny red berries|small green leaves|yellow barks"
so if more than one item comes in on the same line, I need the trigger to fire again. if I could do that id use something like:
{a|an|two|three} (*), and the comma would make it pick up whatever words were between the number and the ,
then I would do like:
#ADDITEM herblist %1

thanks,
turbomudder

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

It's probably easier to put everything into one variable to start with, then parse the variable to get individual items to add.
VAR HerbBasketContents {%replace( {@HerbBasketContents }, " and ", " ")}
VAR HerbBasketContents {%replace( {@HerbBasketContents }, " an ", " ")}
VAR HerbBasketContents {%replace( {@HerbBasketContents }, " a ", " ")}
VAR HerbBasketContents {%replace( {@HerbBasketContents }, " two ", " ")}
VAR HerbBasketContents {%replace( {@HerbBasketContents }, " three ", " ")}
#LOOP 1,%numwords( {@HerbBasketContents}, ", ") {#ADDITEM HerbList {%word( {@HerbBasketContents}, %i, ", ")}}

LightBulb
Senior Member