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Beginner Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 24 Location: Sweden

I was wondering what I am doing wrong with these triggers....
the mudoutput is:

Sailor tells you 'You are not yet ready.'

and I want to capure name and what that person says and send it to the #speak funtion.

I tried

#TRIGGER {(%w) tells you '(%w)'} {#speak {%1 tells you %2}}

but for some reason its not working.

Can someone please tell me what im doign wrong?

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

%w - match any number of alpha characters (a-z) (a word)

This does not include spaces. As long as Sailor limits himself to one-word tells you'll be fine, but your trigger won't pick up anything longer. The * wildcard is usually your best choice for multi-word phrases.

#TRIGGER {(%w) tells you '(*)'} {#speak {%1 tells you %2}}

Wanderer Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 64

The most abvious answer would be that %w corresponds to a single word, and the trigger would only fire if someone told you one word, minus the period. the fix would be replace the second %w with *

Wanderer Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 64

Heh, lightbulb, you were composing while I was, but the forum seems to be slightly laggy for me tonight.