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Newbie Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

i need some help with (), /, [], {}, \ in muds..
what do i write to skip that part?

i've written a working trigger to make my character to run and buy senzu beans by this trigger if the () wasn't there..
Pattern:
(%d) a senzu bean

Value:
#PRI {#IF (%1<11) {MATT}}

MATT is just a alias for the running part..

if i change %d to %1 it would end up to trigger everytime i see a senzu bean.
and if i remove the () then it will never trigger just as for the moment..

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

to escape special charaters in ZMud patterns you can use a tilde ~

I am not sure what you mean by this " () wasn't there"

if you need those in the pattern match ~((%d)~) should work

you must really like senzu beans

Newbie Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

Great it works!!! but when it's less then 10 it becomes a 'space' instead of the first number..
( 2) a senzu.....
(22) a senzue....
then it won't work.. =/ is it possible to remove that space to? or do i have to make a new trigger for that one?

and while im at it.. how do i connect one room with a portal to another zone?? =S tried to look up that but i failed

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

To catch the optional leading space, change the trigger type to a regular expression (regex) trigger and use a pattern like

Newbie Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

what should i write to make % to dissapair?
as in this..

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:44 pm

Okay, you're doing a number of things wrong. The first is that your pattern doesn't match the text - I'm not sure why you're using %* here when it's practically never needed, and your construct %1% doesn't make sense. Your pattern also contains the word "Nathrals", which isn't present in the text. See the topic on pattern matching for more info on how to write patterns. A real pattern to match that text would look something like this:

~[ %d %w~] (%w) (%d)~% hp (%d)~% mana (%d)~% mv (%d) xp

Each item in brackets (and only those in brackets) is made available to scripts, numbered %1-%99 depending on where the brackets opened. So %1 will be "kralels", %2 will be 100, %3 will be 94, %4 will be 95 and %5 will be 364109. So now, in the script of the trigger you can do:

#if (%2>80) {c heal %1} {c ray}

or whatever you want to do.

Newbie Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

it looks perfect.. even thought i never thought that i would need that much... but the 'pattern doesn't match' it still sais.. =/
even if i changed the first %2 to a %4 instead because i guess the 2 would be the %w in the begining..

Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:59 pm

It's because of the spaces. You need to use the [code] tag to preserve spaces when you paste things into the forums. I've added them to your post.

To match more than one (or a variable amount of) space, use %s, so:

~[%s%d%s%w~] (%w)%s(%d)~% hp%s(%d)~% mana%s(%d)~% mv%s(%d) xp

As I said in my previous post, you should almost certainly be using %2 in your script. %2 is the contents of the second set of brackets in the pattern - in this case, the hp percentage.