Zugg Software :: View topic - How do I auto-map room names with square brackets [ ] in?

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:00 am

Space [00-00-00]
Space [01-00-00]
etc
rooms are like that... I really need to save the room names, since the descriptions are all the same

At the moment for some reason my automapper only records "Space" as the name and ignores everything after Space (it doesnt even have the space before the square brackets start for some reason (like "Space "))..

Any way to get around this? :( :( a quick reply would be very much appreciated

there's a LOT of rooms, so automap is really needed, it's impossible to change it all by hand

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

Use #TAG.

#trigger {your room name pattern here} {#TAG name}

When using #TAG, you must also tag your prompt as well, otherwise the other parts you tag will usually never work.

Also, don't forget that [] are special characters, so you need to quote them in the trigger pattern:

Space ~[00-00-00~]

Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:38 am

I dont understand what you mean, what do I put in "name"? how do I tag my prompt?

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

One of these should work.

#TRIGGER {^(%w) ~[(*)~]} {#VAR RoomName %concat(%1,~[,%2,~]);#TAG name {@RoomName}}
#TRIGGER {^(%w) ~[(*)~]} {#VAR RoomName %concat(%1,"[",%2,"]");#TAG name {@RoomName}}

Edit: Fixed! and sorry 'bout that. The small text entry box broke my line at just the right(wrong) point to make me think that it was separated properly. Plus I was sloppy, I guess.

Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 11:23 pm

unfortunately both of those give "argument expected" errors and so have no effect on anything, I checked after I added them :/

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

did you edit the triggers? He forgot to include a separator in the ones he posted.

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:49 am

didnt edit at all, what do you mean separator :/

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

I edited my previous post.

If you need help #TAGging your prompt, it would help to see what it looks like.

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:10 pm

mr kent the one you posted above gives a "syntax error" :/

and ok here is an example:

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

Get rid of any trigger(s) I posted before and try this:

#TRIGGER {(%w) ~[(*)~]} {#VAR RoomName %concat(%1," ",~[,%2,~]);#TAG name {@RoomName}}
Tested with v7.21 & XP sp2

Somewhere you probably have a prompt trigger like one of the following. If you know where your prompt trigger is, great.

#TRIGGER {status&hp~(&maxhp~)hp......} {#GAG}
#TRIGGER {status(%n)~((%n))hp (%n)~((%n)~)mv (%n)mp next (%n) Tank:(*)Target:(*)>} {#VAR somename %1;......;#VAR somename %#;#GAG}

To tag your prompt, just add #TAG prompt before the #GAG command if it isn't already there.

#TRIGGER {status&hp~(&maxhp~)hp......} {#TAG prompt;#GAG}
#TRIGGER {status(%n)~((%n))hp (%n)~((%n)~)mv (%n)mp next (%n) Tank:(*)Target:(*)>} {#VAR somename %1;......;#VAR somename %#;#TAG prompt;#GAG}

Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:17 pm

err kinda works, but it's calling the rooms entirely different names now :o

Interstellar Space [00-00-00] gets named on the map as "Space 0"
Interstellar Space [19-19-09] gets named on the map as "Space -9"

Interstellar Space [19-05-00] gets named on the map as "Space 14"
Interstellar Space [18-05-00] gets named on the map as "Space 13"
Interstellar Space [17-05-00] gets named on the map as "Space 12"

its all really messed up basically :/ all I want it to do is capture the normal names

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

Okay, I guess you don't have the tilde enabled as the quote char.

If this trigger doesn't work, I give up. Mad

#TRIGGER {(%w) ~[(*)~]} {#VAR RoomName %concat(%1," ","[",%2,"]");#TAG name {@RoomName}}

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:47 am

It doesn't make any difference, it's still just "Space -3" etc :(

and yes, tilde is the quote character I checked in the preferences

command: #
separator: &
variable: @
parameter: %
focus: : (disabled)
class: / (disabled)

movement: .
history: !
quote: ~
mapdir: >
database: &

oh, and yeah I figured out that the ; was a separator before and changed that so the script worked, before it only gave the syntax error

please don't give up :/

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

I figured it out. You have two problems, actually.

Problem 1 is that your pattern is not sufficient to capture what you want. It's only matching on Space, and not even caring about Interstellar. The use of the * is fine, but will allow this trigger to match on any other word [anything] patterns. Your new pattern should be more like this to better capture and limit the trigger match to the actual room name:

#trigger {^([%w%s]~[%d-%d-%d~])$} {stuff that was here before}

Problem two is found in the variable contents itself. Your %concat() might indeed be correctly placing Space [00-00-00] into the variable, but when you go to use that variable in the #TAG command ZMud is evaluating the 00-00-00 part mathematically (0 minus 0 minus 0 = 0). To fix this you can uncheck this option in Preferences, you can include a tilde in the %concat() where you add the [], or you can use %quote() on the @roomname variable wherever you use it.

Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:29 am

#trigger {^([%w%s]~[%d-%d-%d~])$} {#VAR RoomName %concat(%1," ","[",%2,"]")&#TAG name {@RoomName}}

sorry, where do I put the tilde? do you mean before the %concat or before each [ and ]? I'm confused

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

Literally before each [ and ] within the %concat() function.

%concat(%1," ","~[",%2,"~]")

Now, I'm not sure if ZMud will eat those single tildes, so if one tilde doesn't work try two:

%concat(%1," ","~~[",%2,"~~]")

If that doesn't work, just uncheck the option in Script Parser Preferences dealing with [].

Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:01 am

ok, this one, with one tilde before each:
#trigger {^([%w%s]~[%d-%d-%d~])$} {#VAR RoomName %concat(%1," ","~[",%2,"~]")&#TAG name {@RoomName}}
when reading room [color]Interstellar Space [00-00-00][/color] produces:
Interstellar Space 0 []

this one, with two tildes before each:
#trigger {^([%w%s]~[%d-%d-%d~])$} {#VAR RoomName %concat(%1," ","~~[",%2,"~~]")&#TAG name {@RoomName}}
when reading room [color]Interstellar Space [00-00-00][/color] produces:
Interstellar Space 0 ~~
(so never mind trying with 2 tildes that obviously doesnt work)

so we've got the first part of the name right but it's still doing the end bit wrong...

using the first version with 1 tilde on each, going to room Interstellar Space [04-04-02] gives Interstellar Space -2 [] so it looks like it's still doing maths stuff on them and ignoring the stuff in [ ]

it's amazing how complicated it is just to get zmud to map rooms with [ ] in them... ridiculous how easy it is to sabotage :/

in this game clans are putting [ ] around their base rooms on purpose lol, because they know it ruins zmud's automap

I hope cmud is more reliable :(

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

Question: are you doing ANYTHING in this trigger (or later, via the Roomname variable) where you need to have the coordinates separate from the rest of the room name? If not, there's really no point to the extra processing of the %concat() function. %1 will work just fine.

If so, then first example you posted is the correct version to use. The problem with it is simply that the pattern only sets %1 whereas you are using %2 in the code it executes. This is why the number appears to be outside the [] when in fact it wasn't--you just had two sets of [] in the variable. You need to change the pattern so that the two sets of parentheses you need are surrounding the [%w%s] part and the [%d-%d-%d] part.

Once that is done, the trigger should be working perfectly. If you are still getting evaluated numbers instead of 3-digit coordinate strings, uncheck the preference I mentioned earlier.

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

What is the addy of this MUD? Could I get to these interstellar space rooms fairly quickly after login?

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:18 am

never mind i got it working, I turned off use square brackets for eval :)

pity it doesnt work without that tho

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:37 am

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:40 am

it stopped working i dont know whats wrong

can you go to avpmud.com port 4000 and see?

make an alien then from recall:

Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:45 am

bump... can anyone help? :(

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:27 pm

anyone? :(