Zugg Software :: View topic - Tricky (Multistate?) Pattern-Matching Trigger Help

Novice Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 33 Location: USA

I'm aiming to do some fancy multistate text tracking/additions/replacement, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Here's the text from the MUD:

{You lunge at * with *!|You stab at * with *!|You thrust * at *.}
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]

What I Want:
Based on the number of backstab hits (there will be between 1 and 5 lines as above), to be able to insert messages into that flow, such that if there are 5 hits, it would instead appear as:
NewIntroLine1
NewIntroLine2
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]
SomeNiftyMessage
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]
SomeOtherNiftyMessage
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]

Problems/trickiness (and why it probably needs to be multi-state):
In the original pattern, there's no guarantee that there will be no intervening lines. There shouldn't be any completely blank lines, but other messages can come between backstab hits, and there's no guarantee of a blank line immediately after all 5 hits (if all 5 occur). The original pattern could wind up like:

{You lunge at * with *!|You stab at * with *!|You thrust * at *.}
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]
<Some other random text>
<other crap>
[1] Your backstab * to *! [%d]
<Some other random text>
<other crap>

So I guess what I need is some way to count the number of occurrences of the pattern being matched (up to 5) and then (hopefully?) go back and insert lines of text (or simply gag everything and #say it afterward).

I guess the worst case is just doing it in parts, replace the intro lunge/stab/thrust line with my text, then a loop-pat-2 backstab state followed by text output, etc.

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:37 am

Why not the following? For the new intro lines, you'll either have to do both separately if you want two separate new intros, or do a condition within 1 param if you want it to be just one line.

By the way, to one of the intro lines, add this text:
bstat=0

As for backstab text, it might be easier to do it this way:

Trigger:
~[1~] Your backstab * ~ [%d~]
Action:
#ADD bstab 1
#IF (@bstab=2) {#SAY blah}
#IF (@bstab=4) {#SAY blah2}

Hope this helps some.

Charneus

Novice Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 33 Location: USA

Yeah, I came up with something nearly-identical with a multi-state trigger instead of a variable, but my original hope was to be able to not output anything if the total # of lines (i.e. @bstab) was <4, including no intro messages. I guess that's not possible or at best would look jerky with a lot of #gag's and then outputting?