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Newbie Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 9

I need some help with matching a target. I have a variable called mob that stores the name of my target, say 'a large yellow snake' and I want to hunt it with a trigger. I have triggers setup to automatically hunt, so the problem lies in parsing the target to make sure that i am hunting the right one. for instance:

hunt a
No-one in this area by that name.

hunt large
Your natural hunting skills track down your victim with ease.
A large mammal is north from here.

notice, that hunting 'large' finds an incorrect target.

hunt yellow
Your natural hunting skills track down your victim with ease.
A tiny yellow bird is north from here.

hunt snake
Your natural hunting skills track down your victim with ease.
A large yellow snake is north from here.

So the problem lies in the fact that I need to iterate through all of the word contained in my mob variable and then match the correct one.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Can you reproduce exactly what your triggers and the such are?

Newbie Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 9

well, i have triggers for automatically hunting something based on results of hunt <victim>. So when it says <victim> is <direction> from here i move in that direction. The hunting is started with autohunt <victim>

Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2006 12:12 am

#TRIGGER {(%x) is (%w) from here.} {mob = %1;direction=%2}

Newbie Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 9

I appreciate the help, but i think you guys are missing the point. If I have 'a large yellow snake' stored in a mob variable, i need to iterate through all of the words...i need to hunt large, hunt yellow, hunt snake, and at the same time i need to know when i've hunted the correct thing.

Magician Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 482

sounds like you need to take the value of the mob variable and if it = %1 in the shalimar trigger do X else do y.

i.e.
#TRIGGER {(%x) is (%w) from here.} {mob = %1;direction=%2;#IF (@mob = %1) {#t- autohunt;%2}}

For the "Iteration" you speak of
#LOOP %numwords(@mob) {#t+ autohunt;hunt %item(@mob,%i)}

BTW this is just a quick example showing you how you can do those in relevance with your script. I didnt plan or write them out to work as they are (they might). This is merely an example of a possible way to do it so you can see iterations and triggers.