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Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 101 Location: USA

Ok I'm trying to figure out how to capture these lines of data so i can send it to the people who ask me.

HP:230 EP:230> find player
Player is in Thranduil's Kingdom at The Thranduil Bar.
In the room: Thranduil bar.
Player is not wanted.

Sometimes there is an extra line if they are in the wilderness telling what direction they are, but that can be ignored.

I'd like to send back the data in this form

"Person Player is in Thranduil's Kingdom at The Thranduil Bar. Room: Thranduil bar

Thanks for the help on this.
Yamabushi

Beginner Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 16 Location: Sweden

^(%w) is in (*).$In the room: (*).

say Person %1 is in %2. Room: %3.

or something like that.

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

#TR {^(%w is in *.)}
#COND {(In the room: (*))} {*Person %t1 Room: %t2} {Within|Param=3}

The room name appears to be redundant. In your example, both lines say that "Player" is at "The Thranduil Bar". You might reconsider whether the second line is really necessary.

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 101 Location: USA

Sometimes it is redunant, but other times you need it to tell where in the city they are at, because the building has more than one room.

I'd like to capture the location after the name of the person I find, and after Room Name should be easy to get. But I need to get both :(

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 9:27 pm

Hi,

Haven't tested this as I don't have a wizzy to check it with! (well not a decent one anyway) but I think what you want to do is have your trigger pattern something along the lines of:

^(%w) is in (*) at (*)$^In the room:%s(*)$

You probably want an alias set up too so you can do something like tfind <player to tell> <player to find> that sticks the name of the player to tell into a variable and then runs the find on the player you want to find, e.g.

#ALIAS tfind {#VAR player_to_tell %1;~find %2}

The trigger should then fire on the find result and in the value you would have something like (feel free to use shorter variable names, I just use long ones so you know what they are doing - well what i hope they're doing)

~tell %proper(@player_to_tell) %1 is in %2 at %3 - In the room %4

If you *know* players will always send you find player requests in the same way and you will always reply to them (or if you're flash you could set up an allowed list - otherwise you may get some clowns spamming you doing tell yamabushi find someplayer on you to waste your ep before they nail you!) you could use another trigger rather than an alias to automatically run the find for you, but that should be straight forward enough. ;)

As I said, it's untested, but it should work, I did a wee test thing with the 'who' list (last two lines) to see if an almost identical trigger worked and it did, so....Let us know how you get on, there may be a simpler way to do it as well though? :)

-G-

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

Just in case anyone else missed it, the trigger in my first post does exactly what Yamabushi asked. That is, it matches both lines and sends the command he asked for with the information from both lines. It also allows for the extra line which he says may sometimes occur (presumably between the first and second lines, since it wouldn't matter otherwise).

My extra comments were just that, extra.

Just noticed the extra set of parentheses in the CONDITION. It should read:
#COND {In the room: (*)} {*Person %t1 Room: %t2} {Within|Param=3}

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 101 Location: USA

I noticed by changing the *Person to a tell and a person's name i can tell them this information. So how can i change the *Person to a targeted person's name through a tell, or over the comm if need be?

Also how can i get it stored into a variable, so i can just send a tell george <@findresults> and send him the inforation, then i can also send it to bob if he needs the same find.

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

Sorry, for some reason I read "Person as *Person and thought it was your tell command.

To send to a targeted person, use a variable. To save the information, use another variable.
#VAR Person george
#TR {^(%w is in *.)}
#COND {In the room: (*)} {tell @Person %t1 Room: %t2;#VAR findresults {%t1 Room: %t2}} {Within|Param=3}
tell bob <@findresults>

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 101 Location: USA

Thanks for all the help Lightbulb. It works great