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Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2001 Posts: 116 Location: USA

-- There are six obvious exits: north, south, west, east,
northwest and northeast.
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#TRIGGER {^-- There [is|are] %w obvious [exit|exits]: *.} {#beep}

Works fine when the directions fot on one line, but doesn't work at all if its more than one line.

thanks for any help

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

Right. So try to remove the excess stuff that makes it sometimes go over one line.
#TR {^-- There [is|are] %w obvious exit} {#beep}

Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2001 Posts: 116 Location: USA

thats a good idea except i didn't tell you the whole story. the next step i am going to do is to write a trigger that collects all the room contents and puts them in an array.

i was wondering if something like this would work...

#TRIGGER {^-- There [is|are] %w obvious [exit|exits]: [*.|*$*.]} {#beep}

Apprentice Joined: 21 Jul 2001 Posts: 116 Location: USA

I was able to get

#TRIGGER {^-- There [is|are] %w obvious [exit|exits]:*$*.} {#beep}

this to work on multiple line exit descriptions. but i can't see a way to make one trigger work for both instances of single line or multiple line exit descriptions.

thanks again for any insight into this :)

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

You cannot place a wildcard in one of those [either|or] elements. You will have to make two triggers -- one for single line, one for double line.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

#TR {^-- There {is|are} %w obvious exit{s|}: (*)$} {Exits="%1";#IF (%ends(@Exits,".")) {#BEEP;Exits=%leftback(@Exits,1)}}
#COND {^(*).$} {Exits=%concat(@Exits,"%1");#BEEP} {within|param=1}

I decided to go ahead and add the script to capture the exits, if you don't find it needed feel free to strip it.

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

You should also note that {is|are} matches only "is" or "are". [is|are] matches any combination of "a", "e", "i", "r", "s", and "|". That is, "is", "are", "seer", "raise", "s|r", etc.