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Newbie Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

I am trying to strip a single word or even first three letters of a word from a line of mud output. When i look a direction i get the following output:

You see nothing special.
You see the Atlantean Palace Guard, the Atlantean Palace Guard, the Atlantean Palace Guard and the Atlantean Palace Guard.

I want to load atlantean or atl into a variable @fltgt.

another example is:

You see nothing special.
You see a Troll, the Crawler and a Troll.

I want to capture the first mob not all mobs..so in the second case just Troll

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

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

For Troll

#TR "see" {You see (*).} {#VAR mob %word(%word( "%1", 1, ","),%numwords(%word( "%1", 1, ","))}

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2001 Posts: 198 Location: USA

Try this.

#TRIGGER {You see nothing special.} {}
#CONDITION {You see {a|an|the} (*).} {fltgt = %word("%1",1," ")}

Newbie Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

Thanks for the posts.

Nexela,

Is that capturing all of the mob names into an array?? if so how do i access them.

Vorax,

Good call on the a, an, the. I got this to work before these posts but it took multiple triggers for the a|an|the.. i will have to try and get your version working.

Also now that i think about it...it would be nice to be able to target the last mob in the room first. I am using this trigger on a ranger character to fire on mobs in the next room...so if i target the first and he enters my room to attack me..i may fire on a second character..not really great to bring multiple of these monsters in at one time..hehe

So I have a basic trigger working..now does anyone have any suggestions for being able the last mob in the room?

Ok the more I think about this it is much harder than I initially thought. If there are multiple named mobs in the other room...i need to be able to count each type so i can fire on the last one. I.E. if there are 5 ogres, 3 trolls, and a rat..they will display something like:

ogre, a troll, ogre, rat, ogre, a troll, a troll, ogre, ogre

so i would need to be able to count each type up so i can fire on 5.ogre or 3.troll.

If you are willing to tackle this or point me in the right direction to do this i would appreciate it..and if not..thanks for your help so far.

Beginner Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 17

First off, I'm an amateur coder. Very Happy

Second, I thought of a way u may be able to attack the last monster. Use lists. Everytime the TRIGGER ID's a monster, it should add that name of the monster to a string using %additem (not #ADDITEM). Your list variable might be something like @Monsters.

In your example above, the list was heterogenous, and u probably want to break the mobs up into categories. so ya might want to use %countlist. (?) If the list had been all the same monster, then u could use something like the code below.

So you've got 9 ogres in the list and u want to attack ogre number 9. Use %numitems to count how many items are in your list. Then issue a command to attack that monster--something like
"kill %numitems.%item(Monsters,%numitems(Monsters))"

I'm expecting the code to send this command: kill 9.ogre

Hope this helps.

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2001 Posts: 198 Location: USA