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Beginner Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 11

Ok, this is the jiff, on our mud ( nodeka ) we have a thing called bot checks which look like this :

###############################################################################
BOT CHECK - use the 'answer' command to store your answer.
Answers will be checked once per consecutive minute.

Answer usage: answer <string>
###############################################################################
Pick the 'weapon' from the following list:

2 b l b 1 5
3 l i r 3
2 a g o p ,
9 c h w e 2
k t n n 0
m n 5
i d p p y
n a u a
u g k n
t g e t
e e s
s r g
r
e
e
n

Just to let you know there are 5 spaces at the beginning, and 9 spaces after each letter in the lines.

and i have this script thats supposed to auto answer these pop ups and tell the group the answers like this :
[ Group: You ]: '::BOT CHECK!'
[ Group: You ]: ':: Bot Check Possible answers:'
[ Group: You ]: ':: 2329 minutes'
[ Group: You ]: ':: black dagger'
[ Group: You ]: ':: light puke green'
[ Group: You ]: ':: brown pants'
[ Group: You ]: ':: 1 penny'
[ Group: You ]: ':: 53,205'
[ Group: You ]: '::Bot Check Successful'

and give an answer if found in library... BUT!! heres the big thing. BUT!! it comes out like this :

[ Group: You ]: '::BOT CHECK!'
[ Group: You ]: ':: Bot Check Possible answers:'
[ Group: You ]: ':: 2329 minutes'
[ Group: You ]: ':: biack duke green'
[ Group: You ]: ':: lrght pants'
[ Group: You ]: ':: b own p'
[ Group: You ]: ':: 1 penny'
[ Group: You ]: ':: 53,205'
[ Group: You ]: '::Bot Check Successful'

The trigger which catches these bot checks has a pattern like this :
" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 "

i put the quotes to show you. Theres another that looks like this also:
" %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 "
(trigger matches the pattern above)

and when i test the trigger out with this line:
" 3 l i r 3 "
(5 spaces before the 3, and 9 spaces after each character)

it shows the variables like this when tested:
%1 :3 l
%2 :i
%3 :r
%4 :
%5 :
%6 :3

How can i correct this problem?

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

Use the zScript wildcards, as shown in the Help topic Pattern Matching, instead of the %1, %2, etc. that you learned elsewhere, and which are equivalent to zScript's *. In this case, you'll probably want to use the &nn (fixed width) and ? (single character) wildcards.

Pattern: ^&05(?)&09(?)&09(?)&09(?)&09(?)&09(?)&05

By the way, the ###### lines don't have any spaces, so they override the forum's wordwrap feature. Reducing them to about half their current length would help readablity immensely for those of us using smaller screensizes. It may be a direct copy from your MUD, but they aren't important to the problem and they are too long for my screen.

Beginner Joined: 24 Nov 2003 Posts: 11

Sorry, that was a copy and paste off of the game. I will do that next time