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Newbie Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

I am trying to set up a trigger to make the character functional during periods of being away so as not to hold up the group...I am new to CMUD and am very rusty in programming of any sort, but am trying to get the syntaxes correct. I am using the Profile editor to make the triggers and such...

I have the following variables set up : tank, fighting, target, assist_action_1, and assist_action_2

Pattern is : @tank {cleaves|crushes|demolishes|hits|massacres|misses|obliterates|pierces|pounds|pulverizes|slashes|smashes|smites|stabs|stings|stuns|whips} (*)

Action is : %IF (@fighting=0, @fighting=1;@target=%2;backstab @target, @assist_action_1;@assist_action_2)

I would like the (*) in the pattern to let me utilize one word (typically the second one) to set as the target to use in the assist_action variables

I can get the trigger to fire, but it won't compile...

There would be a second trigger to set the fighting variable back to 0 when fight was over.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

So you would want
'TheTank cleaves big ogre.'
To capture 'big ogre', then extract 'ogre' from that as the 2nd word?

Try...

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

The problem was with the IF statement syntax. You should be using

#IF (test) {then do this} {else do this}

Also, when assigning variables then don't use
@target=%2
or
@fighting=1

Instead use
variable = value
leaving out the @

The first one was bad syntax that zMUD allowed when it really shouldn't have. CMUD is more strict