Zugg Software :: View topic

Beginner Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 17

Okay, I'm sure this is simple enough but I'm struggling with it. I'm trying to figure out how to get more than two words to show up in a database or stringlist. For example

Salaric (Mail Room)

I want it to capture Salaric and then both 'Mail' and 'Room'. I can make the trigger itself just fine

(%w) * ~((%w) (%w)~)

It's just getting the information into databases that I'm struggling with. I can just get 'Salaric - Mail' to work. Help?

Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:42 pm

This pattern will do the trick

(%w) * ~((%w %w)~)

Each set of parentheses says group these words together in a match. So you were essentially grouping each matched word separately.

Review the Pattern Matching documentation for more info.

Wanderer Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 64

what if it's more than 2 words sometimes, 1 word sometimes, etc? (a ring, a golden helm, a diamond studded plate).. (*) seems to just get the first word into the variable.

Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:52 pm

EDIT: Thinking about it, your issue is more likely to be related to how zMUD handles arguments. You need to do #var Whatever {%1} rather than #var Whatever %1 when %1 can contain more than one word. Try the below if that's not the issue - * should be fine, really.

You'll need something a little more complex in that case. A regex like:

(\w+) [^\(]+\(((?:\w+ )+)\)

should do the trick. I coloured the brackets () to hopefully make it clearer which goes with which.