Zugg Software :: View topic - only most specific trigger firing possible?

Novice Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 40

i want to trigger on two very similar outputs, which are:
^You {hit|slash|pierce|blast|whip} (*) hard in {his|her|its} {head|chest|left arm|right arm|left leg|right leg}.$
^You {hit|slash|pierce|blast|whip} (*) VERY hard in {his|her|its} {head|chest|left arm|right arm|left leg|right leg}.$

because of the (*) before the VERY, both triggers fire at an output like:
"You hit a samurai-guard VERY hard in his left leg."

Is it possible to have only the second one, eg the one with the most specific pattern, firing by some trick?

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

The best way is to change the first pattern to:
^You {hit|slash|pierce|blast|whip} ({^VERY}) hard in {his|her|its} {head|chest|left arm|right arm|left leg|right leg}.$

This is fine as long as you dont store anything else into the %n variables in this trigger. If you do, then it won't work correctly because of a bug.

The other way of doing it is to have the first trigger check to see if it actually matched on a line that was supposed to fire the second trigger:
#IF (!("%1" =~ "VERY$")) {The line that fired this trigger is not for the second trigger, so do something}

Kjata