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Wanderer Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 57 Location: USA

I have a who command that looks like:
Beaker the Lunatic Chemist of Madness and Mayhem, Praetorian of the Society
of Scryers.

Beaker is what I want to add to the Name column of my database I call Players

When it says
the Lunatic Chemist of Madness and Mayhem
I want the db to check Alchemist as my single option guild column

When it says
Praetorian of the Society
of Scryers.
I want it to select Society of Inovation
in the single option org column and gnome in the single option race column

Technology is my friend.

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Should be fairly simple:
#TR {(%w) the Lunatic Chemist of Madness and Mayhem, Praetorian of the Society
of Scryers.} {#VAR Wholist {};#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1;#ADDK Wholist guild alchemist;#ADDK Wholist org {Society of Inovation};#ADDK Wholist race gnome;#IF %find( %1, , Name) {} {#NEW All @Wholist}}

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Wanderer Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 57 Location: USA

That would work fine for a gnomish alchemis innovator but I'd like something more generic so I can add multiple people with different information

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Wanderer Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 57 Location: USA

Also note that of scryers is on a new line and indented
And will the who list be able to hold multiple entries? Or just one person?

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MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

I can't give you anything more generic since you haven't provided the information to do so. However, you (since you have the information) could probably do so for yourself. I mean, I might have guessed that "the Lunatic Chemist of Madness and Mayhem" was an alchemist, but I probably wouldn't have guessed that "Praetorian" was a goblin and I'd certainly never have guessed that "Society of Scryers" meant Society of Inovators. I can't begin to imagine what your other guilds, races, and organizations are or what titles would correspond to each.

You'll most likely want to use list and/or record variables in constructing a "generic" trigger. You'll probably need either matched lists, or one list and one record variable for each section of the title.

#TR {(%w) the ({@guildtitles}), ({@racetitles}) of the ({@orgtitles}).} {#VAR Wholist {};#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1;#ADDK Wholist guildtitle {%2};#ADDK Wholist orgtitle {%4};#ADDK Wholist racetitle {%3};#IF %find( %1, , Name) {} {#NEW All @Wholist}}

An indented wordwrap is probably being done by zMUD. If not, you'll probably have to put a LOT more work into devising a trigger.

The record variable, @Wholist, is intended for one person at a time. It just provides an easy way to accumulate the information for a single database entry. You don't have to use that variable name. Pick something else if it confuses you.

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Wanderer Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Posts: 57 Location: USA

Ok I wrote 4 triggers that don't trigger on top of eachother. Here is one of them

Pattern:^(%w) th? ([~-a-z' ]).
Command:
#IF ((%2) =~ "Angelic Knight of Redemption") {
#VAR Wholist {}
match=1
#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1
#ADDK Wholist Guild paladin
#ADDK Wholist level 370
}
#IF ((%2) =~ "Ordained Noble of the High Heavens") {
#VAR Wholist {}
match=1
#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1
#ADDK Wholist Guild paladin
#ADDK Wholist level 380
}
#IF ((%2) =~ "Virtuous Paladin of Severan") {
#VAR Wholist {}
match=1
#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1
#ADDK Wholist Guild paladin
#ADDK Wholist level 390
#ADDK wholist race human
}
#IF ((%2) =~ "Archangel of Divine Retribution") {
#VAR Wholist {}
match=1
#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1
#ADDK Wholist Guild paladin
#ADDK Wholist level 400
}
#IF ((%2) =~ "Water Boy") {
#VAR Wholist {}
match=1
#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1
#ADDK Wholist Guild alchemist
#ADDK Wholist level 0
}
#IF ((%2) =~ "Puddle Jumper") {
#VAR Wholist {}
match=1
#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1
#ADDK Wholist Guild alchemist
#ADDK Wholist level 1
}
#IF ((%2) =~ "Seeker of the Mystic River") {
#VAR Wholist {}
match=1
#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1
#ADDK Wholist Guild alchemist
#ADDK Wholist level 10
}
#IF ((%2) =~ "Neophyte of Alchemy") {
#VAR Wholist {}
match=1
#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1
#ADDK Wholist Guild alchemist
#ADDK Wholist level 20
}
#IF ((%2) =~ "Student of Alchemy") {
#VAR Wholist {}
match=1
#ADDKEY Wholist Name %1
#ADDK Wholist Guild alchemist
#ADDK Wholist level 30
}
#IF %find( %1, , Name) {} {add=1}
#IF ((@add = 1) & (@match=1)) {#NEW All @Wholist}
match=0
And it goes on for pages like this.
Which when I do a large who call.
For example whoing all the players
It lags zmud a lot and I'm not even finished entering in all of the titles yet.
I was wondering if their was a more efficient way to do this.

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MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

The fastest, most efficient method would probably be individual triggers for each title. That's essentially what you're doing now anyway, with all those "pages" of #IF checks.

The first questions you should probably ask yourself are, "Do I really need this? Will it be worth the effort of writing a script and the lag it will cause whenever I do a 'who'?" After all, you could just learn to read those titles and decipher them for yourself.

As I said before, I'd probably use matched lists, or a matched list and record variable. It's not as efficient as individual triggers, but it's much easier to make updates to.

#VAR GuildTitles {Angelic Knight of Redemption|Ordained Noble of the High Heavens|Virtuous Paladin of Severan|Archangel of Divine Retribution|Puddle Jumper|Seeker of the Mystic River|Neophyte of Alchemy|Student of Alchemy}
#ADDK GuildLevels {Angelic Knight of Redemption=Paladin 370|Ordained Noble of the High Heavens=Paladin 380|Virtuous Paladin of Severan=Paladin 390|Archangel of Divine Retribution=Paladin 400|Puddle Jumper=Alchemist 1|Seeker of the Mystic River=Alchemist 10|Neophyte of Alchemy=Alchemist 20|Student of Alchemy=Alchemist 30}
#TR {(%w) th? ({@GuildTitles}),} {#VAR Wholist {};#ADDK Wholist Name %1; #ADDK Wholist guild %word( %db( @GuildLevels, %2), 1);#ADDK Wholist level %word( %db( @GuildLevels, %2), 2);#IF (!%find( %1, , Name)) {#NEW All @Wholist}}

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