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Kotte
Newbie
Joined: 27 Sep 2006
Posts: 6
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 Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:56 pm
To use DB or %grep?
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I have a textfile with a few hundred entries looking like this:
Roomname - Direction : Hiddenname
Roomname can be several words and I have a trigger setting the roomname to a variable. I load the file with #File 1 "myfile.txt", and use #SHOW %grep( 1, @RoomName) to catch every line containing the roomname. Then I have six triggers that sets the hiddenexit like this: #TR {- North : (%w)$} {#VAR HiddenExitNorth %1} etc. All nice and dandy but a problem occurs whenever a roomname is shorter and triggers lines with longer roomnames containing the short one. E.g. Back of a Valley Cave vs Cave. Would this be easier to solve with a database or has someone got a nice function to help me? |
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Larkin
Wizard
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
Posts: 1113
Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:37 pm
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If you provide a more narrowly focused regular expression to %grep, you can eliminate the extraneous results. For example, to find "Cave" and not "Back of a Valley Cave," you would search with %grep(1, "^Cave \-") to anchor the text at beginning and end (assuming the format of your file as you have posted it, of course).
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