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Newbie Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 1

Hello,

I'm new to cmud and would like to write my scripts using lua, but the tutorial ends right where it got interesting.
I can't seem to find any info on how to capture text from the mud using lua.

To be specific:
If I wanted to capture the text 'You are hungry.' in a variable, how would I go about it?

Thanks in advance,
Nongolf.

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 12:15 pm

Hah, yes. Sorry about that - I keep meaning to get around to finishing it, and never do. It depends what you want to do with the text, of course.

If you want to just run some Lua code whenever you get the text "You are hungry", just make a trigger where the pattern is "You are hungry" and the script is whatever code you want run (with Lua selected from the script dropdown). If you want to do some sort of parsing on the text - say, when you receive "You get 285 gold." where 285 is any number, you use a pattern of "You get (%d) gold" (see also) and then refer to the value inside the brackets with the function zs.param(1), which works exactly the same as the %param zScript function. You could, say, add it to a variable with var=var+zs.param(1).

Full documentation of CMUD's lua interface is here.