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Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 3

Hello.

I'm having problems getting a value using a regex pattern.
The pattern I wrote looks like this:

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Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 3

Works as good as my trigger. Still get the mob name with flags included. I'm not good with regexp and I don't understand the necessity to add \ to | and T. Can you comment your solution a bit? Just to be clear, here are the flags I want to ignore: (I)(H)(G)(R)(D)(X)(T)(W)(Angry).

Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:13 pm

The \ applies to the character after it, not before it. In a regex, the [] indicate a character class and the () indicate a grouping, so they have to be escaped in order to match them literally.

I believe the reason it doesn't work is that the part intended to match the flags is non-greedy (due to the ? after the first *). This combined with the fact that the regex ends with .* guarantees that the flags portion at the beginning will never consume anything. If you remove the ? after that first *, Vijilante's regex should work fine as long as (Angry) isn't in the flags, looks like he expected a different format for that or something.

I think you may have intended that ? after the flags part to mean that there can be no flags instead of a non-greedy match though, so I combined the two to come up with this one that seems to work for all the cases I tried. I'm no expert on whether its the most efficient regex or not though. Note the match is in %1 instead of %2 since I assumed you're just discarding the flags:

Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2009 Posts: 3

Thanks for the help. My friend pointed out the same error. I removed the '?'and tweaked it for larger number of flags that I potentially missed and it works fine now. Here's how it looks like now: