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Newbie Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Australia

at the moment ive got a reall roundabout and ugly way of counting improvements in a skill that include # _ and ' which involved changing the command character to something i was sure nothing else used
i was wondering if there was a better way, ive got an idea, but rather than revamping entire system and then finding out it doesnt work resulting in a broken window + laptop
i was wondering if anyone knows if this solution would work
the text from the mud being something like this
* You think your bob's_spell skill has improved. *
or
* You think your language#goobydegook skill has improved. *
and the pattern id use being
~* You think your (*) skill has improved. ~*
and the stuff that happens when its matched being
#ad %-1 1

would that add it to languagegoobydegook
or would it just add it to language like my previous attempt at this before i made my messy fix ? :p

Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:32 pm

You might think about changing your command character back, and changing the trigger to:
#TRIGGER {~*%sYou think your (*){_|#}(*) skill has improved.%s~*} {#add %replace(%1%2,"'","") {1}}

In the language#gobedydook example, it would add 1 to @languagegobedydook. In the bob's_spell example, it would add 1 to @bobsspell.

Magician Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 356 Location: USA

Also for pattern matching command characters (that aren't really command characters user a ~ in front of the command character so that Zmud will quote the next character and not try to process it.

for example:

Bob's #1 trigger

(%w)~'s ~#(%d) trigger

Now the command characters or special characters wont be processed by Zmud.

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

You couldn't find any real examples? Patterns that match "goobydegook" and the like frequently don't work with REAL output.

Creating matching patterns isn't difficult. These should all get special handling anyway, since you won't want ' or # in a variable name, so just make individual triggers.
#TR {You think your bob's_spell skill has improved.} {#AD bobspell 1}
#TR {You think your language~#goobydegook skill has improved.} {#AD goobydegook 1}