Zugg Software :: View topic - Capturing multiple lines to list after trig

Newbie Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

Greetings,

Really I have been searching on this forum for over an hour and I have not been able to locate an answer for this one. I have found some code for sending mutilple lines to a single var but not really what I'm looking for so here's the deal:

Upon entering a room I have a trig which fires to collect the possible exits. now with this same trig I would like to capture the next 5 lines of text and store part of each line into it's own var. So the example is:

In the deep blue sea (n,ne,e,se,s,sw,w,nw).
A long slithering eel
A huge shark
A guppy looking for it's mate
A blowfish swimming in circles
A starfish just sitting here

I have the trig for "In the deep blue sea ~(%dir~) and other code which chooses a direction for later use, but what I need is the remaining code which parse each line for it's subject and store these values in individual vars to be used as targets.

I was using %line but that is limited to the last three lines.

Any ideas?

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

You will not be able to directly capture subsequent lines with a trigger. ZMud's entire world ends at the current line, so what you need to do is have that trigger enable another trigger that matches the lines you want:

#noop do not copy the #variable line, as the field/value boundaries do not match up with the = and | used to represent them
#noop use the Settings Editor or the #ADDKEY command as demonstrated in the AddCritters alias to build it manually
#variable vSeaCritters {eel=long slithering eel|shark=huge shark|guppy=guppy looking for it's mate|blowfish=blowfish swimming in circles|starfish=starfish just sitting here}

#trigger {In the deep blue sea...} {...#T+ tSeaCritters}
#condition {prompt line or blank line} {#T- tSeaCritters}

#trigger "tSeaCritters" {%qA ([%x%s])%q} {#loopdb vSeaCritters {#if (%val = "%1") {Target = %additem(%key,@Target)}}}

#alias AddCritters {#if (!%null(%1) and !%null(%2 and !%null(%3))) {#addkey v%1Critters %2 "%-3"} {#say %concat(%ansi(red,bold), "ERROR:", %ansi(default), " Critter data not properly formed", %cr, %ansi(yellow), "ADDCRITTERS ~[type~] ~[keyword~] ~[description ~(can be multiple words~)~]"}}

I made the alias more generic so that you don't have to change it to work with other areas in the MUD.

Newbie Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

Thanks for your assistance Matt, but I am stumped as to what your script is doing and I cannot for the life of me get it to work. Could you or anyone else walk me through (step by small step) as to how this script works.

I setup a class the trigs and alias as you have specified but to no avail.

I am just not understanding how it works.