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Beginner Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 28

Alright, I've been trying to capture things and throw them into a database record. Everything is fine, except for one chunk of it. I've got this:

Appearance:
<appearance of item I need to capture into &Item.Appearance>
Dropped:
<appearance of dropped item I need to capture into &Item.Dropped>
Examined:
<BLAH BLAH BLAH
BLAH
BLAH
Appearance of item when examined. Usually 4+ lines Captured into &Item.Examined
BLAH>
Comments:
<Captured into &Item.Comments. After comments it terminates with a newline.>

So, basically, I've got the trigger word Appearance: then I need to capture up to the word Dropped:. The trigger word Dropped: then capture to trigger word Examined. Trigger word Examined: captured to the trigger word Comments: and then trigger word Comments: captured until newline.

I can't figure out how you'd capture until a trigger word, then use that same trigger word to start the next capture, and so on. I'm really confused about this one, and would love some help. I suck with complicated triggers.

Thanks

Beginner Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 28

Ok, maybe I should ask, is this even possible? I've been trying to get it and I seem to just be bashing myself into walls all over.

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

Sure its possible, Try posting some ACTUAL mud output between some [ code ] tags [ /code ] and if someone gets a chance they will help you, but noone likes working with error prone <BLAH> format.

Beginner Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 28

Heh, well, all the spacing was right and such, thought it'd be enough, but I see your point. Here's some actual output.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Is the Examined output wrapped by the mud or is ZMud handling it? If the mud is wrapping it, can you change the wrap column so that ZMud does the wrapping instead? If so, your solution is a very easy multi-state trigger:

#trigger {Appearance:} {}
#cond {(*)} {Item.Appearance = "%1"}
#cond {Dropped:} {}
#cond {(*)} {Item.Dropped = "%1"}
#cond {Examined:} {}
#cond {(*)} {Item.Examined = "%1"}
#cond {Comments:} {}
#cond {(*)} {Item.Comments = "%1" //this one might not work, unsure off the top of my head if * matches 0 characters}

If Examined is wrapped by the mud and you can't change it, more work is involved:

#trigger {Appearance:} {}
#cond {(*)} {Item.Appearance = "%1"}
#cond {Dropped:} {}
#cond {(*)} {Item.Dropped = "%1"}
#cond {Examined:} {#T+ tExaminedOutput`Item.Examined = ""}

#trigger "tExaminedOutPut" {(*)} {#if ("%1" != "Comments:") {Item.Examined = %concat(@Item.Examined,"%1")} {#T- tExaminedOutput}}

#trigger {Comments:} {}
#cond {(*)} {Item.Comments = "%1"}

Beginner Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 28

Hey, thanks for the reply. The appearance and dropped work, but I the examined isn't working. The mud controls the length, and I couldn't change that, so I tried your second suggestion, this is the entire code I put into the mud:

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Looks like I forgot to change a ` (the separator character I use) to a ; (the default separator character).

Beginner Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 28

Yep, that was the little guy that did it. It takes the first line of the examined, but ends after that now. I pulled up the entire script for class identify as zmud has it, does everything here look right for grabbing more than one line of examined?

Beginner Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 28

One more thing. I turned show triggers on, maybe this'll help:

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

Change this
#TRIGGER "tExaminedOutPut" {(*)} {
#if ("%1" != "Comments:") {Item.Examined = %concat( @Item.Examined, "%1")}
#T- tExaminedOutput
} "" {disable}

to This

#TRIGGER "tExaminedOutPut" {(*)} {
#if ("%1" != "Comments:") {Item.Examined = %concat( @Item.Examined, "%1")} {#T- tExaminedOutput}
} "" {disable}

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

Damn Dbl Post

Beginner Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 28

Sweet jeebus it works! Thank you soooo much Matt and Nexela! I would've never figured that one out.