Zugg Software :: View topic - Chatline capture trigger assistance please

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Windows 7
Cmud Beta 3.22a

I'm trying to alter a trigger someone gave to me, but for the of me I can't get it working. I checked help files, and searched the forums, but that's not working either. Can someone give me some assistance please?

The line I'm looking to capture, looks like this:

[Missions:Player] this is a line of text

For reference, this is the code I'm trying to use, and I need it to capture multiple lines if there are any... :

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

shameless bump

Does no one have any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Pretty please?

Novice Joined: 09 Sep 2006 Posts: 44

%w is not a regex reference, so your problem would appear to be that you're mixing pattern recognition "languages".

Try \w+ instead of %w.

Also, are you recolouring the text from the original, or replicating the original colour? If you're replicating, it seems like a lot of extra code work when '#CAPTURE 1 Tells' would work.

Finally, while I can't hold that this is true in all cases, I would expect any single block of channel text to be treated as one line upon receipt, so a single line trigger should capture the whole thing; any word wrapping typically occurs client-side. So unless the mud is actually enforcing line length limits with its own newline characters, the loop state is probably unnecessary.

Edit: I just reread the pattern and realised the second trigger is not for a new line but for the actual message text... I would expect you can probably eliminate it and fold it into the first pattern still, by replace '.*' with '(.*)$$' and working with %2 in the script, or if the colours are replication as I mentioned above, #CAPTURE will cart the whole line over, without having to worry about references.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

The \w+ fixed one problem, but it's still not capturing the first line of test. I still get [Mission] Player (blank line)

Yes, I'm recoloring the test because I've got about 12 different lines captured, and it makes it difficult when several of the lines have the same color mud-side.

I do believe the mud is adding it's own newline characters, because it won't capture the 2nd line otherwise if I don't have the loop line.

Adept Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 277

Oh, nevermind I see what I did there. When I recreated the trigger I forgot to add (.*) to capture text... It seems to be working now.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

If the mud is sending newlines, you could check whether there is a setting on the mud to turn linewrapping. Many muds have such a setting.