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Beginner Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 13

Alright! -I'm trying to learn more about coding, this is the more ambitious of my attempts and way out of my comfort zone. I'm trying to recreate a small program that a friend of mine is using on MUSHclient.

Basically, she uses some Lua code to get who is on the game from the website (http://old.lusternia.com/players.php?search=who)
and strains it through this filter:
\<a href\=\'\/players\.php\?lookup\=\w+\'\>(\w+)\<\/a\>
each name is added to a list with the delimiter , between them and then printed to the screen.

I'm trying to do this in Zscript with the %url object creating function.

So far I've got an Alias and it's value is this
(as you can imagine, it's not really working out)
u = %url("http://old.lusternia.com/players.php?search=who")
#SHOW %regex(@u.Get,"\<a href\=\'\/players\.php\?lookup\=\w+\'\>(\w+)\<\/a\>",Name,Message,X)

which prints '0' to the screen

If someone could point me to the newbie friendly tutorial on this I'd greatly appreciate it, some help would also be great.

Beginner Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 13

((I don't know Lua but for those of you who do and this might make the difference here is the code I'm trying to 'translate'))

http = require "socket.http"

webRex=rex.new("\<a href\=\'\/players\.php\?lookup\=\w+\'\>(\w+)\<\/a\>")

function webstalk(filter)
local f = assert(http.request("http://old.lusternia.com/players.php?search=who"))
if f then
local str = ""
local count = 0
webRex:gmatch(f, function(m,t)
if not string.find(string.lower(t[1]), filter) then
return
end
str = str..t[1]..", "
count = count + 1
end)
ColourNote("silver", "", string.sub(str, 0, -3)..".")
ColourNote("silver", "", "Players online: "..count)
end
end