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Novice Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 41 Location: Chester, VT

I'm trying to make a trigger execute when it encounters more than one phrase, I made a test trigger to test it out.
If I set the pattern to "triggertestone" when the mud sends me the text "triggertestone" I see that it executes.
Now, if I set the pattern to "triggertestone|triggertesttwo" neither phrase will call it to execute.
I also tried "(triggertestone|triggertesttwo)" and "*triggertestone*|*triggertesttwo*" without any success.

Anyone know how to do this correctly? Thanks.

Beginner Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 22

#Trigger {Triggertestone|TriggerTesttwo} {#say I'm firing on either pattern}

You need to surround your multiple patterns in {}.

I believe this is in the documentation, which is a great thing to read.

Novice Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 41 Location: Chester, VT

Sorry, I couldn't find it in the documentation (not under #TRIGGER in commands, anyway). I did look first, I just couldn't seem to find the answer. :( Thank you though, it does work!

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:37 am

Vesence actually means #Trigger {{Triggertestone|TriggerTesttwo}} {#say I'm firing on either pattern} since the outside set of braces will be parsed out when CMUD runs the #trig command. But braces are what you use, yes.

The list of pattern-matching syntax, just for future information, is here.

Enchanter Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 605

Fang, could you copy-paste your sample to the Pattern Matching page, please? Match

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:56 am

That example's pretty simple, and there's already a simple on that example page. I don't think it needs further explanation.

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

Fang: It's not my intent to beat you over the head or step on your toes here, but I don't see an example on the Pattern Matching page that specifically addresses the matching of multiple patterns. This is the totality of what I see there on the subject:

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:48 pm

Hey, I'm always willing to hear criticism, especially the well-thought-out kind :)

As you can tell from my comments on that article, there're numerous things that need expansion in it. It's one of those articles from zMUD that's been through a number of different help systems and so the formatting's pretty naff - really it needs rewriting from scratch to make adding and changing things easier. I've wanted to add things like regex equivalents to that article for a while, and I guess a simple example of each wouldn't hurt either.

I'll give some thought over the holidays to making this article better, definitely.

Novice Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 41 Location: Chester, VT

Perhaps ... a link to that page in the #TRIGGER documentation would be helpful, too :)

Enchanter Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 605

mr_kent
Thank you for your post! Smile

If people ask about something pretty simple, they did not get enough help from existing articles as they should.

Fang Xianfu
I know that it is awfully boring to add various stuff here... there... endlessly... but your examples are so good. Wink