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Newbie Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 8

Hello all. I've a rather simple problem that I can't really figure out with my meager zmud knowledge.

Basically, in a mud I play when I scan, I see mobs, it looks like this:

South : an astral warhorse

I've been trying to use a trigger to capture "astral warhorse" as a variable (say target), but ignore the words a, an, and the in making the variable itself as they confuse things ('kill an' has unfortunate consequences per se).

However, the trigger must also be able to handle this sort of readout:

South : Bob the Grocer

Setting 'Bob the Grocer' as target.

Is there someway to do this, and have the trigger ignore the words 'a', 'an', and 'the' altogether for reading the string and setting the variable?

Thanks for any help in advance!

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:29 pm

There's probably an easier way to do this from the more experienced coders but...

Try a %replace(@target," ","|"), which will turn your variable into a stringlist. Then, use an #IF statement to determine if the first item in the @target stringlist is "a", "an", or "the" with %item(@target, 1). If it exists, %delitem(@target, 1), %replace (@target, "|", " ") and send your 'kill @target' to the mud.

Newbie Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 8

How exactly would one code that, please? I've never used #if or stringlists before so pardon my newbieness. Also, is it possible to exclude certain words? Like Sue, who is a group member.

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:58 pm

I'm more used to CMUD, so I may get the syntax a little off... but I can try...

First, create your trigger for your scan. You probably already have this. The code for the trigger should be something like:

target = %replace(%-1, " ", "|")
#IF (%ismember(%item(@target, 1), "a|an|the")) {
target = %delnitem(@target, 1)
}
target = %replace(@target, "|", " ")

Then you can do whatever you wish with the @target. If you need an exclusion list, you'll build a stringlist of friends and compare in the same manner.

Newbie Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 8

Do I paste that into the trigger itself that finds @target?

If so, it didn't appear to work, so unsure what to do to fix it.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:03 am

Show me your trigger?

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:20 am

It truly is much more simpler than what Martaigne is trying to do (and Martaigne, your trigger will not work effectively anyway...)

#TRIGGER {Whatever your scan output is (make sure you're capturing something)} {target=%subregex(%1,"^(?:a |an |the )")}

That /should/ work. I just woke up, so the syntax may be wrong, but give it a try. I won't be able to do anything about it for another 9 hours if it's wrong, though, sadly. :\

Charneus

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:00 pm

Yeah, I figured there was an easier way. I'm not terribly experienced with regex yet.

Newbie Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 8

This appears to work flawlessly, thank you both very much for the help!

I've never done a stringlist before, and the helpfile in zmud doesn't seem to have it mentioned. How might I find help in making a list of friendlies that this ignores so they don't get targeted?

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

1)make your stringlist variable:

#variable stringlistname {item1|item2|itemN}

2)in the trigger (the pattern needs only to match the space WHERE the name would appear), use an conditional command (#IF, #SWITCH, etc) where the condition is %ismember(%1,@stringlistname):

Newbie Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 8

Wow, thanks to all. This works fantastically! Much thanks for your time and effort.