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Newbie Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Norway

I have a trigger in the class Teamkills
Pattern: Xar killed

When Xar leaves my team I want this trigger gone

Thus I have a trigger like this..

Pattern: %0 left your team.
#untrigger {%0 killed} {Teamkills}

However nothing happens. The trigger is still there.

IF I change the trigger like this.

Pattern: %0 left your team.
#untrigger {Xar killed} {Teamkills}

the Xar trigger is removed. Thus it seems to me that I use the wildcards wrong or something…
Any ideas?

Morph

Wanderer Joined: 25 Sep 2001 Posts: 59 Location: Australia

heh, I don't even know what %0 does, so I'm keen to see an answer too.

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

Yes, the wildcards are wrong. There is no %0, in zMUD, and the %1, %2, %3, etc. are not to be used inside patterns. This works, I think, to provide some compatibility with TinTin, but it sometimes produces unexpected results. You ned to change the pattern of your trigger to:
(%w) left your team.

and then the command to:
#UNTRIGGER {%1 killed} {Teamkills}

Look at the help file entry called Pattern Matching, for more info on this.

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Norway

Wow.. works like a charm

Why do I need the () around he w in he pattern though. Or more to the point, what do the () do?

I hear vague questions gets vague answers

Wondering

Morph

Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 43

Yes, you need the ( ).
They tell the parser that you want to load this information into the %1 var. Without them %1 never get's set.

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

Yeah, what Rehcra said. More specifically, the parenthesis tell zMUD you want to store whatever is matched by the wildcard contained inside them. Thus, whatever is matched by the wildcard inside the first set of parenthesis is tored in %1. The next set of parenthesis define %2, and so on.

Kjata

Newbie Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 3

And to re-stress: (%1) won't capture anything. It's (%w) that captures a word, and sticks it into the %1 variable.

Newbie Joined: 01 Feb 2002 Posts: 8 Location: Norway

Thank you all for clearing this up for me

Most helpfull!

Morph