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Apprentice Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 124

Trying to extract the various numbers from this line, captured as a string because sometimes there are white spaces
Basically, how can ignore any whitespaces (" ") just inside the start of the brackets match ie, could begin with "[ " or "[(%s)#"
Source String:
Hit dice: [230d4 + 0] Damage dice: [ 2d35 + 23] Mana dice: [ 1d1 + 99]

Trigger in Progress:^Hit dice:(%s)~[(*)~](%s)Damage dice~:(%s)~[(*)~](%s)Mana dice:(%s)~[(*)~]$
Trigger currently does:
#addkey Mob_Db_Add Hit_Dice {%2}
#addkey Mob_Db_Add Damage_Dice {%5}
#addkey Mob_Db_Add Mana_Dice {%8}

What I'd like it to do is match off of something more like .
Trigger:
^Hit dice:(%s)~[(%s)(%d)d(%d)(%s)+(%s)(%d)~](%s)Damage dice~:(%s)~[(%s)(%d)d(%d)(%s)+(%s)(%d)~](%s)Mana dice:(%s)~[(%s)(%d)d(%d)(%s)+(%s)(%d)~]$

Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:54 pm

You're not wanting to capture the spaces so you don't need to surround them with round brackets. Try ~[{ | | |}(%d)d(%d)%s+%s(%d)~] for the dice rolls.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Just capture with * and then get rid of the spaces with %replace("%nn"," ","")
#TRIGGER {^Hit dice:%s~[(*)~]%sDamage dice~:%s~[(*)~]%sMana dice:%s~[(*)~]$} {
#addkey Mob_Db_Add Hit_Dice {%replace("%1"," ","")}
#addkey Mob_Db_Add Damage_Dice {%replace("%1"," ","")}
#addkey Mob_Db_Add Mana_Dice {%replace("%1"," ","")}
}
Alternately I believe the %dice functions will ignore spaces, and %eval definitely does, so you could use something like this.
#TRIGGER {^Hit dice:%s~[{%s|}([0-9d])(*)~]%sDamage dice~:%s~[{%s|}([0-9d])(*)~]%sMana dice:%s~[{%s|}([0-9d])(*)~]$} {
#addkey Mob_Db_Add Hit_Avg {%eval(%diceavg(%1)%2)}
#addkey Mob_Db_Add Damage_Avg {%eval(%diceavg(%3)%4)}
#addkey Mob_Db_Add Mana_Avg {%eval(%diceavg(%5)%6)}
}

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:49 pm

When I looked at this I tried to get {%s|} to work and it didn't hence why I used { | | |} to deal with 0 to 3 spaces. Is there a trigger option that makes {%s|} work? I believe that the help on triggers says it's not possible.

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

If you use a regular expression, \s* will match 0 or more spaces. I find it to be a better option than %s in many cases.

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:43 pm

Absolutely and is by far the best way to go. Still I'm interested to know if it possible to do {%s|} using zMUD patterns.

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

Yes, but you have to enable wildcards in ranges (or something like that) somewhere in zmuds prefrences page

Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:07 pm

Most excellent, one to store in the memory banks.

Vij your post needs editing so the %diceagv lines become %diceavg, when done remove this line from my post.

Vijilante--edit done. I don't mind admitting my mistakes.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The use of wildcards in {} portions of the pattern was added in the 7.x versions of zMud. That particular entry in the help dates back to when I first editted it in the 6.2x betas. Maybe someday I will get around to correcting that.