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Novice Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Question #1 - When grouped the dynamic inclusion of the leading <[82%]Enoka> causes a problem with the variables updating properly.

2 Prompts, the first is my normal non-grouped prompt. The second is a grouped prompt where someone is taking damage in the group. The grouped prompt is dynamic and the <[82%]Enoka> portion of the prompt appears only when a group member takes damage. If the person in the group is healed to full the <[82%]Enoka> portion will disappear.

<537hp 835m 560mv 100br>
<[82%]Enoka><537hp 835m 560mv 100br>

2 working prompts that I have:

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 9:17 am

A1:Use one regex trigger.

(?:<[(\d+)\%](\w+)>)?<(\d+)hp (\d+)m (\d+)mv (\d+)br>

There's a reference for regex syntax here, but in short, the (?:stuff) part causes that part not to be put into the %nn variables and the ? after that part makes the whole lot in brackets optional.

The problem with this is going to be that you can't use named arguments in a regex trigger in zMUD and when the first part of the regex matches, it'll bump the hp etc values up two places from %1 to %3. You could do something like

#if (%2=~"%a") {}

to see if %2 contains letters instead of numbers.

A2:You don't need to use a file; you already have variables for storing stuff. How about something like this?

#trig {Marious, the Great Wizard looks at a magic orb placed here by Vryce} {StoredTele=""}
#cond {Marious, the Great Wizard telepaths you, '(*)'} {StoredTele=%concat(@StoredTele," ",%1)} {looplines|param=5}

I haven't used looplines in a while, but I think that's right.

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:56 pm

I stand corrected. If the optional part at the start matches, %1 and %2 will have values, otherwise they'll be null. %3 will always be the hp, and so on.

Novice Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Is there any way that this could be done with named variables? I wrote these triggers when I first started playing medievia years ago and the variable names are used in numerous triggers all over the place.

I would assume this has been done before. Considering that this is the default Med prompt and with the sheer number of players and the necessity of the issue I would would not want to reinvent the wheel if it can be helped. =)

Adept Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 246

Just do the variable assignment in the trigger: #VAR PartyMemberHealth {%1} etc

Novice Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 39 Location: USA

thanks again gentlemen, as always, very helpful.

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

To answer your second question you have to use a multistate trigger and some logic.