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Newbie Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Posts: 2

This trigger is meant to capture lines such as

(City): Bob says, "Hello."

Bob tells you, "Hello."

You tell Bob, "Hello."

and send them to a window called "communication."

When I initially create the trigger, it works 100% as intended. When I close and reopen cMUD, the trigger no longer works. None of my other triggers have stopped working, only this one. I have saved everything properly and am not losing anything but the functionality of this trigger. Any ideas?

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Well, your pattern is broken. I don't see why it would work even once. You are trying to use several alternative patterns separated by a pipe, "|". That only works if the list of alternatives is enclosed in curly brackets, {}. However, in version 2.37, you cannot use wildcards like * and %s within those curly brackets. You can in the most recent beta version, but I really don't recommend using the beta just for this. Hopefully the new public 3.xx version will be out in a little while.

I think the only way to do this in 2.37 is with a regular expression. Click the "Regular Expression" checkbox at the bottom of the trigger. The pattern would be something like (this is off-the-cuff):

Newbie Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Posts: 2

Thank you! I didn't realize I couldn't match patterns using a pipe if I wasn't using regular expressions - I'd rather make a different trigger for each pattern than try to figure out a new way of pattern matching, since I just barely got this figured out.

My biggest problem that I couldn't solve was really just capturing the channels and I realized I needed to use this instead:

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

You _can_ put alternatives in a normal trigger pattern separated by pipes, but they have to be enclosed in curly brackets, like so: {a|b|c}. And you can't put wildcards inside those curly brackets, like *, %s, %a, etc. So, to do the specific task you wanted as a single trigger, it would have to be a regular expression. Glad you figured out an alternative.

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