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Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Posts: 8

this is the trigger pattern:
^Rahnkara the Highpriestess leaves (%1).(%2)
%1 can be north, south, east, or west

so for example:
Rahnkara the Highpriestess leaves north.
would be a valid statement.

but i am having problems with trigger security where people are emoting the statement
with:
Rahnkara the Highpriestess leaves north. user-name

what i would like to do is have an if statement to check it.
her is what i want in psdeo-code
IF %2 exist then do not move
Else issue the command %1

%if(%2="",%1,say that was a trick %2)

the red area is where i am having problems. i dunno what to put there.
since sometimes %2 contain anything how to check for existence? would the way to go is use $. but i couldn't get that to work either.

help!

Magician Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 358 Location: USA

First off, in the trigger pattern, you don't use %1 and %2. zMUD uses whatever's in the first set of () as %1 and whatever's in the second () as %2, etc. So, try:

quote:
#TRIGGER {^Rahnkara the highpriestess leaves (*).$} {go %1}

Or, even better, use the conditional trigger:

quote:
#TRIGGER {^Rahnkara the highpriestess leaves ({north|east|south|west}).$} {go %1}

If you really want to use an if statement, you can do:

quote:
#TRIGGER {^Rahnkara the highpriestess leaves ({north|east|south|west}).(*)} {#IF (%2="") {go %1} {say That was a trick, %2!}

Newbie Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Posts: 8

you da shiznit!