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JMinara
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Joined: 05 Jul 2005
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 Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:01 am
Patternmatching text with whitespaces and alphanumeric
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Hi all,
I'm trying to write a substitution and I want to catch a variable length string so I can format it.
Here's the untouched code:
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| see<pushBold/> a town guard<popBold/>, a public listings board, the town green pond, and<pushBold/> a scrawny newsboy<popBold/>. |
My goal is to color the stuff between the pushBold and popBolds yellow.
I'd like to do something like
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| ~<pushBold/~>(*)~<popBold/~>{.|,} |
but that ends up turning everything between the first pushbold and the last popbold yellow.
What should I do? Can't figure this thing out and I've been banging my head against it a while. |
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MattLofton
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Joined: 23 Dec 2000
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Location: USA
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:40 am
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there is always going to be a pushBold and a popBold, so I'd probably just focus on those.
#trigger {~<({push|pop}Bold/)~>} {#if (%1 = "push") {#psub "color mxp-color-value" %x1)} {#psub "/color" %x1)}}
That SHOULD convert the tags from XML to recognizeable MXP which should then of course be processed as MXP, but might be happening too late in the process to actually work. If that's the case, you'll probably have to go with #MXPTRIG instead and defining the pushBold and popBold tags.
The idea is that instead of trying to pick out the content that these tags are working on, you just replace them with something ZMud already knows how to handle. |
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JMinara
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:24 pm
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| MattLofton wrote: |
there is always going to be a pushBold and a popBold, so I'd probably just focus on those.
#trigger {~<({push|pop}Bold/)~>} {#if (%1 = "push") {#psub "color mxp-color-value" %x1)} {#psub "/color" %x1)}}
That SHOULD convert the tags from XML to recognizeable MXP which should then of course be processed as MXP, but might be happening too late in the process to actually work. If that's the case, you'll probably have to go with #MXPTRIG instead and defining the pushBold and popBold tags.
The idea is that instead of trying to pick out the content that these tags are working on, you just replace them with something ZMud already knows how to handle. |
The trigger will work but for some reason it's only firing once in any given line.. Can't figure out why. The second part doesn't even evaluate |
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