Zugg Software :: View topic - ^{ |}{^A white rabbit}(*) is now here.

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:34 pm

What is the problem with this syntadx I can't figure it out

I want to capture stuff like the highlighted bits from the below example lines (no, not just wizard, that's why I did the exclude for rabbit, or tried to anyway):

A fat wizard is now here.
A fat wizard is now here. [with a space at the start of the line]
WITHOUT capturing the below example lines
A white rabbit is now here.
A white rabbit is now here.[with a space at the start of the line]

Soooo, how do I make it still capture the name? At the moment it just ignores the excluder bit in curly brackets entirely, I don't know why

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:07 pm

^ means the literal start of the line.
with the way you have it might be thinking that the 2nd ^ is IN the trigger
The (*) wont help either

^{ |}{A white rabbit} is now here.

or

^{ A white rabbit|A white rabbit} is now here.

I think either will work. Don't have zmud at work anymore so can't test.

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:13 pm

Here, luckily i'd brought over my exported mud file to print out.
Looked thru it and found this part:

#TRIGGER "globalquestended" {^Global Quest: The global quest has {been won by |expired~. There is no winner~.}} {

SOOOO

#trigger {^{ A white rabbit|A white rabbit} is now here.}

I think that should work, tho i dont see any reason why this shouldnt work either.

#trigger {^{ |}{A white rabbit} is now here.}

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 5:21 pm

exclusions require [] square brackets and a carrot^ so it would be [^a white rabbit]

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:40 pm

crud, now that I actually READ the post I see what the question is.

#trigger {^{(%*)| (%*)} is now here.} {#var mobcap "%1"}

that should be it.
For some reason I thought u were looking to trigger on a specific mob.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I would actually say that this can't really be done with the zScript pattern syntax and would be extremely hard even in a direct regex pattern. I think the way it would have to be done is matching a list within a list something along the lines of:
zScript: ^{ |}({{^A white rabbit|A blue rabbit}|*}) is now here.$
REGEX: ^(?: |)(?=(?!A white rabbit|A blue rabbit)|.*) is now here.$

I think it would just be simpler to use the open match then just #IF in the code for the trigger:
#TRIGGER {^{ |}(*)is now here.$} {#IF (!%match("%1","{A white rabbit|A blue rabbit}")) {Do something}}

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

If I'm not mistaken, lists within lists are not possible. That wouldn't make sense though since we DO have nested list capabilities, so it was probably just a trigger/pattern issue I didn't feel like dealing with at the time.

Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:06 am

erm ok I'm confused :(

what do you all recommend I do then for it to work?

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:50 pm