Zugg Software :: View topic

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:58 am

Is there a better way to insert text into mud output other than the following?

#TR {({rolaren|vultite})} {#SUB {%params (+20)}}

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:05 am

Depends what exactly you're trying to do - you might find #sayadd useful.

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:52 am

I want the text to appear immediately after the pattern, not at the end of the line.

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:49 am

Then yeah, #sub is what you want. You could read up on regex lookahead and lookbehind for ways of matching without matching, though - basically, you put your pattern in a lookbehind, like so:

#regex {(?<=(?:rolaren|vultite))} {#sub " (+20)"}

And the "match" of this pattern is a zero-length string (like if the pattern was blank) but that must be preceded by rolaren or vultite (the contents of the (?<=blah) construct). Yeah, this explanation sucks - I've linked to the relevant pages on the web at the bottom of this post.

This might screw up CMUD's colour coding because you're substituting a zero-length string with a non-zero length string, but it probably won't - if it does, you could add a space to the end of the pattern and another to the end of the substitute string.

You might also want to consider using \b before and after the pattern, if applicable.

See also (1, 2)