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Apprentice Joined: 19 Aug 2002 Posts: 120 Location: USA

Here is my trigger:

Pattern: (%w) says 'replenish me'
Value : c replenish
#ADDITEM replens %1
#T- replenish

I want to make it so if the person's name who says "replensih me" is contained in a variable, lets call it, noreplen, then the trigger wont fire, otherwise it will

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

This is done by using #IF and %ismember.

Apprentice Joined: 19 Aug 2002 Posts: 120 Location: USA

#IF (%ismember( @noreplen)) {osay I'm sorry %1, But I cannot replenish you.} {
c replenish
#ADDITEM replens %1
#T- replenish
}

that's what the trigger looks like now but it doesnt work, even if the person's name is on the noreplen variable, it still replenishes...

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

Try:
#IF (%ismember(%lower(%1),%lower(@noreplen))) {osay I'm sorry %1, But I cannot replenish you.} {
c replenish
#ADDITEM replens %1
#T- replenish
}

Apprentice Joined: 19 Aug 2002 Posts: 120 Location: USA

thank you, it worked... but for the sake of my learning, can you explain what the %lower(%1),%lower(@noreplen) did?

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

Syntax for ismember is:
Syntax: %ismember(s,list)
ie

quote:

#VAR friendsList {Zugg|Darker|Penny}
#VAR petitioner zyxcef
#IF (%ismember(@petitioner,@friendsList)) {cast heal @petitioner} {say Nope.}

I added the %lower to both pieces in case the check was case sensitive as I can't remember and didn't test.

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

It's clear from your own example, %ismember( @noreplen), that you didn't even bother to look up %ismember. If you had, you'd have known it required TWO parameters, not just one. For the sake of your own learning, you should click on that menu at the top of zMUD which starts with the underlined H, find and read the entries for %ismember and %lower, then return here and explain for everyone else why Ton's script worked and yours didn't.

Apprentice Joined: 19 Aug 2002 Posts: 120 Location: USA

i actually did (and i always look for help in the help files before i come here) , and i don't know what (s,list) means... i'm assuming list would be the variable containing the list of names, or a set of specified names. but i have no idea what "s" is (edit - upon further thought on the subject i have decided that s is the object which you are checking the list for, am i correct about this?)... and you don't need be sarcastic to get your point across

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

I'm sorry for the sarcasm. You are correct that "list" is the variable containing the list of names. You're also correct that "s" is the object (%1) you are checking the list for.

%lower is used to control the use of upper/lowercase so that you aren't trying to match LightBulb with LiGhTbUlB. %ismember is case sensitive, so those two would not match without using %upper, %lower, or %proper. In some cases it may be better to use the unmodified strings, so that LightBulb (a name) won't be matched with lightbulb (a device for creating illumination).

I hope this helped. Both this, and my last entry, were meant to be helpful. I apologize for the sarcasm, I should have just said use the Help menu.

Apprentice Joined: 19 Aug 2002 Posts: 120 Location: USA

to be fair, had i thought about the usage of %ismember a little bit more I might have been able to figure it out, logically, if you want to test to see if something is in the list, you must specify what you want to check for...