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Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 43

OK. I've been banging my head against this, and when I think I get it fixed, I find that in truth it isn't. I've tried reading the REGEX docs which have pointed me closer, but...

I'm trying to tag the Room name, which works but it also ends up tagging the exit line, under some cases.

/The Southern Cellblock of Despair [Underground Passage]/
/In the Underground Market [Underground]/

should match as room names, returning the name in %1, and the room type in %2

/^(.+) [(.*)]$/ does fine matching these. But then we get to exits.

/ [Exits: north south west ]/ <- Fails above. (After I changed to using (.+) above.)

/ [Exits: north [east] south [west] ]/ <- Passed above, when it shouldn't.
%1 = / [Exits: north [east] south /
%2 = /[west] /

[east] signifies a closed door. You will also see /east\ for a water room, but I don't think it will matter, and a few others.

I've thought about turning off the roomname trigger each time, but haven't had a chance to play with that online yet.

Thanks for any help.
Rehcra

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

Did this the easy way. Made a regular pattern that did what you asked and converted it.

^(\a+.*)[(.*)]$

Novice Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 43

Thanks. Sadly. I couldn't figure out how to make it work as a regular pattern either.
I've been away to long.

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

Limited wildcards are the key. The Room Title lines start with alpha characters and the Exits lines start with [. So, any wildcard which matches alpha characters but doesn't match punctuation should work.
^(%w*) ~[(*)~]$