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Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 173

ok I would like to capture text from the mud and automatically make triggers out of it, because I'm super lazy and hate typing.

Here is my question:

Given an arbitrary string "abc xyz*.@"
(may contain *.+ or in general any ascii character)
is there a function in zmud that escapes it properly so that it is a propper regex pattern?

EX: #SAY %regexconverter("You *hate* me dont you.")

you would see:
You \*hate\* me dont you\.

I would imagine that if zmud automatically turns zugg #TRIGGERS into #REGEX(internally) that there has to be a function of this caliber, does anyone know what it is called, or how to access it?

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Once you've put it into the trigger dialog (in the settings window), use the "convert" button next to the regex checkbox. There isn't a way that I know of to do it from the command line, however you could probably write a function/alias to do it for you easily enough.

HOWEVER, some things that have been said make me believe that ZMud does not use regex internally--for example, non-regex patterns can be compiled in CMud while regex patterns can NOT be compiled*, meaning that non-regex should be faster.

*This was last I heard, I don't use CMud (operating system woes) so it may no longer be the case. YMMV.