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Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 127

I currently have a need where I'd like to be able to store certain triggers within a array or stringlist whichever works and want to be able to check if a certain phrase is among them. I made up a test one to see if I could get it to work:

What I see in game:

The following players from the Daru are online:
Master Miran, Seeker of Purity.
Purifying Flame, Grand Master Kylan, fio Naecelm Ciehianari.
Talonnb Silverain, Auresian Avenger.

So, I made a stringlist with those three names in it. And did this.

The following players from the Daru are online:$(*)$(*)$(*)$ - Trigger
#echo %1
#echo %2
#echo %3
#echo %ismember( %1, @guildmembers)
#echo %ismember( %2, @guildmembers)
#echo %ismember( %3, @guildmembers)

What I get as an output:
Master Miran, Seeker of Purity.
Purifying Flame, Grand Master Kylan, fio Naecelm Ciehianari.
Talonnb Silverain, Auresian Avenger.
0
0
0

So I'm just wondering, is this due to the fact they are strings? %ismember only work for single words?

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Just a thought but maybe for sake of recording more info, you'd be better off using database variables instead?
Use %addkey for adding the stuff you need and %iskey to check if the stuff you're seeing is in db, accordingly.

Prog

Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 127

Deleted my guildmembers variable, and did #addkey (Talonnb Silverain, Auresian Avenger.) in the command prompt, it made the database record fine.

Same trig on the guild part, but I shortened it to:
The following players from the Daru are online:$(*)$
#echo %1
#echo %iskey( %1, @guildmembers)
#echo %iskey(@guildmembers, %1)

Output again:
Talonnb Silverain, Auresian Avenger.
0
0

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Hmm, I'm not completely sure if my suggestions are even remotely good, but got another idea.
Change db entry to Player1 in first column and Talonnb Silverain Auresian Avenger in second.

Then, use

Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 127

See, the thing is, I want to make a string list of, for example, all the venom hits that are possible with weapons. Then, if I get hit by a weapon, it checks the next line for a valid venom hit, and I'll have the associated numbers trigger to the cure. I just think it would be a good way to do illusion curing and I'm more or less wondering if it's possible....

My Idea:
Trigger - ^Lightning-quick, (%w) jabs your left leg with(*)$(*)$
#if (%ismember( %1, @badtars)) {#var attack1 %ismember(%3, @venomattacks);processattacks}

Kinda like that

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Huh, I'm pretty confused now what exactly do you want because you're asking a completely different question this time. Anyway, this question seems to be a lot more easier, though.

How exactly does the line when you're touched with venom look like? Is the trigger you're currently providing one possibility or are there several?

Considering the amount of data you're currently giving...

* You make string list for venom types.

* Make a trigger/triggers WHEN you get hit with venom.

* Make the trigger's value to CHECK if the venom is in the list, and if, cure it

I can only suggest the following at this point, though.

Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 127

See, I already have what you suggest.

The code is, for example:

Saybre slashes into you with an ornate steel rapier!
The idea of eating or drinking is suddenly repulsive to you.

Now, I want to do a trigger like:
(%w) slashes into you with an (*)$(*)$
#if (%ismember( %1, @badtars) > 0) {
#if (%ismember( %3, @venomattacks) > 0) {
#if (@attacked = 1) {
#var anorexia 1;PHC
}
}
}
Background, @venomattacks would CONTAIN "The idea of eating or drinking is suddenly repulsive to you." And it would be set to the first location in the variable venomattacks in this case, so %ismember would return 1, attacked would be set to 1, and as a result, anorexia would be set to 1. PHC is my checker that starts the healing, basically ignore that.

I have the whole thing now, where I trigger the The idea of eating or drinking is suddenly repulsive to you. to #var anorexia 1 as normal, but I want it so it REQUIRES that attack phrase to fire it. Hence my wanting to use arrays and matching if possible.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Ok, arrays would be the proper word to use if you were talking about java C etc languages. In Z/C mud you would call it a string list.

So you make a variable STRING LIST of attacks that could possibly give you this ailment.

ailAttacks=slashes into you with an ornate steel rapier!|throws a dagger at you, it sticks in your chest!|...

And one that is a list of venom patterns.

venomattacks=The idea of eating or drinking is suddenly repulsive to you.|You wonder why there are so many poor people in the world.|You are suddenly afraid of heights.

Then you make a trigger.

{@ailAttacks}$({@venomattacks})

Note that I did not even try to match the name at the beginning of the line. It is unnecessary.

See? Very close to what Progonoi said

Now it would be far easier to do this.

Trigger - ^Lightning-quick, (%w) jabs your left leg with(*)$({@venomattacks})$

But that is up to you.

Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 127

With it searching to see if it matches, and matches fine to say, anorexia, where in the trigger

^Lightning-quick, (%w) jabs your left leg with(*)$({@venomattacks})$

Does it give me the location in the stringlist of the triggered on in like a %1? So I can say, if %1 = 1, #var anorexia 1?

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Variable part of the trigger gives you whatever string inside the list which matches the pattern. If you write a value for the given trigger, then %1 is the variable so to speak.

If I understand you correctly though, then you want anorexia variable to be set to 1 when venomattacks are seen. Imo there's no need for #if %1 = 1 in there. Not that I can understand what you're supposed to mean with it in the first place. You can use something like that just as easily:

Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 127

But if you'll note in my top example, the first of this thread, that I tried %ismember, and for some reason, even if the items are in the stringlist as what is matched, %ismember always seems to return 0......Hence my confusion

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

OK.

Gave it a shot and tested it myself now. Following SHOULD work.

Apprentice Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 127

Wierdly enough, I wrote a new one, duplicated exactly what I did before and it works now.....go figure.

Thanks for the help guys, appreciated.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

I had not really paid much attention to how you did this. To answer your question.