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Wanderer Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 57

Okay, this one's a little unusual - basically I'm trying to set up a trigger such that when a particular line appears (for example, "You may drink another healing elixir.") under a certain set of circumstances, it's replaced with the line "Illusion: You may drink another healing elixir.". I've set the value of the trigger as follows:

#SUB {<i>Illusion: You may drink another healing elixir.</i>}

However, for some reason it doesn't see to like the word "Illusion" being used there and replaces it in the output with the word "You". This only seems to happen with the word illusion, which is particularly frustrating because that's the one word I want to use. I've tried putting "" around it, and I've tried preceeding it with ~, but nothing seems to help.

Any advice on how to fix this, or even just an explanation of what's causing it, would be wonderful.

Newbie Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 8

I am no expert, but I would try:

#SUB {~<i~>Illusion: You may drink another healing elixir.~</i~>}

Unfortunately, I'm at work so I can't be sure that that works.

good luck

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

My guess is that it's the colon that's messing you up. When using curly braces with #SUBSTITUTE, zmud actively processes whatever is contained therein which means html/mxp brackets and special characters (ie, the colon, the default focus character) can mess up your output.

I don't believe this happens when you use double-quotes, but then again using them will cause zmud not to expand variables and the like.

Wanderer Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 57

The thing I don't understand, though, is why this problem only occurred with the word illusion, and each and every time changed it to the word "you", regardless of the surrounding text. I mean I changed it to "illusio" and "illusions" and it worked perfectly fine. Wondered if the word illusion itself had some meaning in zMUD.

Newbie Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 8

Is illusion the name of your character?

Wanderer Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 57

No, nor is it my password, the name of the MUD or in any other way significant. That's what makes the whole thing so entirely bizarre.

Beginner Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 17

Just a thought, search through your system for Illusion. It might be you've entered a slightly incorrect #SUB or #GAG command before hand, or, your using a system imported from elsewhere that has already done something with that particular word.

Hope that helps.

Newbie Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 2

I'm far from an expert with zmud Code, but I've always had problems with colons. I'm not on my computer, so I don't have zMUD with me, but you might try something like..

#SUB {<i>Illusion~: You may drink another healing elixir.</i>} if none of the others work.

I honestly have no clue if that will help at all, just trying to help.

PS. Looks like something from Aetolia/Achaea :P

Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 108

I'd have to agree with aliensurfer, you may have accidently created an alias or substition using that word, so it's messing you up in this trigger, I've had similar problems in the past.

Llohr