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Newbie Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

Hi everyone,

could you help me with a little problem. I'm trying to substitute one symbol with another during commands input. But all my aliases and triggers do not give the result.

So the issue is very simple (substitute "e" with "E", for example)- if I'm typing

"The rabbit goes east."

the alias should send to zMud

"ThE rabbit goEs East."

Is it possible to write such kind of thing?

Thanks in advance for help.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

have you tried %replace(%1,"e","E")?

Newbie Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

If it should look like

#ONINPUT {*e*} {%replace(%1,"e","E")}

so no, it's not working. But maybe my understanding of #ONINPUT is not correct. Can anybody help?

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

You are on the right track, except for two things:

1)when you want to do stuff to the matched pattern, you need to surround it (or the relevant sections therein) with parentheses:

#oninput {(*)} {blah blah blah}

Certain commands/functions don't necessarily need this reference (ie, #PSUB, #CW, etc).

2)functions return a value, so using them as in your example will probably result in two very serious issues for you to deal with:

a)an extra bit of text being sent to your game (ie, if you typed "fred" the result will be "fred;frEd")

b)because the result of the function in this case is likely to be identical/similar to the original text, the trigger will fall into an infinite loop. In this case, ZMud should pop up a dialog telling you about this and will probably either disable the trigger or offer you a suspended window of opportunity to deal with the problem.

To fix this, use #CALL or some other command (ie, #SEND or #PSUB, since you want to send the result to the game) when you want to swallow the results of your function.

The final trigger will probably be something like:

#oninput "tCommandInput" {(*)} {#psub %replace("%1","e","E") %x1}

You didn't provide any context for the text you want to do, so I provided the trigger name (tCommandInput) to allow you to control the enabledness. If there are a limited number of possible matches, you could instead change the pattern (the part in bold) to something a lot more specific. This will probably speed up the trigger, depending on what you change it to, though the savings might not be noticeable.

Newbie Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 3

Thanks!

After a few tries with your corrections the final trigger looks like

#oninput {(*)} {%replace( "%1", "e", "E")}

It really works! Thanks again and good luck! :)

Actually this trigger helps with different languages (like russian), where zMud has no support.