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Beginner Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 25 Location: USA

I'm trying to figure out how to do a couple triggers, and both have me completely stumped.

The first isn't any particular trigger, but I'm trying to parse a number in a trigger patern and save it as a variable. Normally this wouldn't be hard--saving a variable is no problem--except this number is displayed from the game with commas and periods, such as: 1,234,567.90. This wouldn't be a problem, either, except that the number can vary from in the billions to single digits. Is there any way to parse a number without capturing commas, since commas turn it into a text string?

The next trigger might be extremely simple and I'm oblivious. Sometimes the game outputs duplicate lines, on purpose and in immediate succession. I'd like to #GAG one of the two lines each time. The duplicate lines vary in content, otherwise I would just make a trigger for each type of line. I've tried using the pattern ^(*)$^(*)$ and an #IF to test if the two lines are the same, but that doesn't work. Any ideas?

Edit: Okay, I lied. One more little trick. I occasionally have to wait a certain number of seconds to be able to do something, and the game tells me so by saying "You have to wait XX seconds before you can do that." So I set up a trigger with that phrase as its command and with XX replaced by (%d) to capture the number of seconds. I then have a command "#WAIT +(%1 * 1000);#BEEP" which beeps at me when the time is up, but I would also like to set up a gauge using %secs or %ctime. Any ideas?

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

First don't use #WAIT in triggers (read the link in sig line) use and Alarm

#TR {You have to wait (%d) seconds before you can do that.} {#ALARM "wait" {+%1} {#BEEP}}
The gauge part of your question has been asked an answered recently do a search for it

For the Gagging dup lines this should work
#TR {^(*)$(*)} {#IF ("%1"="%2") {#GAG}}

for Numbers with Commas you can use (%n) //You will lose the numbers after the decimal though

Beginner Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 25 Location: USA

quote:
Originally posted by nexela
#TR {You have to wait (%d) seconds before you can do that.} {#ALARM "wait" {+%1} {#BEEP}}
The gauge part of your question has been asked an answered recently do a search for it

I did search for related threads, and nothing helps me do what I'm trying to do. There are a couple posts dealing with gauges and time-based variables, but they don't provide me with any insight beyond what I already have.

quote:
Originally posted by nexela
For the Gagging dup lines this should work
#TR {^(*)$(*)} {#IF ("%1"="%2") {#GAG}}

This doesn't work, since it appears to be matching the strings "%1" and "%2", rather than the values stored in %1 and %2. If I take out the quotes, the duplicate lines continue while other, non-duplicate lines are gagged.

Adept Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 226

I made a timer script that creates a gauge for the countdown automatically... you could use that for the waiting thing: