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Novice Joined: 12 Oct 2000 Posts: 30 Location: Australia

Well first this is the text I am trying to store in a variable:
--> Trigger to match this pattern turned on
Text Line 1
Text Line 2
Text Line 3
Text Line 4
Blank Line
Text
Trigger Turned off here

Now I had no problem matching the 4 lines of text, I used:

#TR {(*)$(*)$(*)$(*).} {#ADDKEY ItemDesc {%1 %2 %3 %4}

Now the problem is I need to match the four lines, the blank line and the next line all in one pattern because the lines of text i want to store can be anywhere between 1 and 10 lines so I will need 10 triggers and I only want one to trigger at once (depending on how many lines). I tried some different patterns but cant seem to match the blank line.
This is what i tried for 4 lines, 1 blank, 1 more line:

(*)$(*)$(*)$(*).$(*)$(*)
(*)$(*)$(*)$(*).$$$(*)
(*)$(*)$(*)$(*).$($)$(*)
(*)$(*)$(*)$(*).$(^)$(*)
(*)$(*)$(*)$(*).$^$(*)

and some others none will match a null line any ideas please??

Of course the best way to do it is with one trigger to match any where between 1 and 10 lines and store it, cant get that working either.

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

Yes, you are right, the best way is to make it so it matches any amount of lines. You can have this trigger:
#TRIGGER "getDesc" {(*)} {VAR desc %concat("%1", " ")}

Now, use a trigger to enable this one and also add this to that trigger:
#TEMP {$} {#T- getDesc}

This will create a temporary trigger that will fire when it sees a blank line and disable the getDesc trigger.

Kjata