Zugg Software :: View topic - Advice needed on a trigger to avoid an infinite loop

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:27 am

I'm trying to pattern match when I'm hit with an attack line I've not seen before, so I do this:

^(.*\b(?:@target_full)\b.*)$

So if I see the @target_full anywhere in the line it will match and I know I've seen an unrecorded attack. I'd like to do a sub on the line so it looks nicer but if I try to sub/say/show or anything that uses the name again the trigger will go into an infinite loop where it matches then prints out the name again and matches again. I tried selecting, "stop further processing" which I thought would have solved it, but it didn't.

Any advice?

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:33 am

Try calling an alias from the trigger, the first thing the alias does is disable said trigger. That means, though, you need an activating alias also.

Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:15 am

Well I think I got it. Subbing works, I don't know why I was not seeing that earlier.