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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:48 am

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<cmud>
<trigger priority="12960" copy="yes">
<pattern>^[A-z,' ] {tell|snarl|say|yell|mutter|says|shout|exclaim|ask|sing|chant}*, ~"*[).'?!]~"$</pattern>
<value>#capture chanCap</value>
</trigger>
</cmud>

I'm a bit confused about why that matches lines such as:

(Web): Name says, "This is what they say."

That trigger was supposed to match only tells and in-room communication such as says. Not channels which always begin with (Chan-name):

Yet it does. Even when I rewrite the trigger in a blank session. Its anchored with ^ and my range does not include ( or ) so surely it should not match? I suspect it is related to first of the two * wildcards I've used (and I'm unsuccessfully trying to remember why I put that in). However, if that is the cause, I still don't get how:

^[A-z,' ]
Matches
(Web):

Anyone got any explanations?

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 4:04 am

I'm not seeing this. To test, I copied your pattern ^[A-z,' ] {tell|snarl|say|yell|mutter|says|shout|exclaim|ask|sing|chant}*, ~"*[).'?!]~"$ into the pattern of a new blank trigger, and clicked save. I then swapped to the Test Pattern tab and pasted your test line, (Web): Name says, "This is what they say." into the box and pressed test. No match. I then tried the simplified patterns ^[A-z,' ] {tell|snarl|say|yell|mutter|says|shout|exclaim|ask|sing|chant} and ^[A-z,' ] and still no match.

Try using the Test Pattern tab for your trigger. I suspect that your trigger will also fail this test, in which case you have another trigger that's matching this text, but it's similar enough that it's hard to tell the difference. If your trigger really is passing this test, then this is a very strange bug indeed. As a first port of call, I'd suggest deleting the folder you installed CMUD to (not your data files folder, so none of that should be lost) and reinstalling it.

Incidentally, because of the way you're using * and the range, this pattern's going to be doing a lot of backtracking on a successful match. You might want to look at using a regex with a lazy quantifier.