Zugg Software :: View topic - A problem with two characters that get in my way..

Newbie Joined: 25 Dec 2001 Posts: 5 Location: Canada

I tried to write a trigger, as follows...

#trigger {Your powerlevel increased by [%w].} {@PL += %1}

The major problem however, is that zMUD won't read it correctly... it won't read the [] or look for the number in between it... can you tell me how to fix this?

GURU Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 556 Location: USA

You should also place the quote character in front of the ] too. You must enclose the %d in parentheses to capture the data. Also, zMUD doesn't support +=. Use the #ADD command instead.

#trigger {Your powerlevel increased by ~[(%d)~].} {#ADD PL %1}

Troubadour

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

You should familiarize yourself with the special characters that zmud uses. Those have to be quoted out as Troubador indicated.

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

quote:

You should familiarize yourself with the special characters that zmud uses. Those have to be quoted out as Troubador indicated.

Give a man a fish and he is fed for a day...
Teach a man to fish and he is fed for life...

Technically, they only have to be quoted out when you are using them in their specialized roles. So long as you don't need to depend on variable pattern-matching (such as 'You get (*)'), you can simply turn on verbatim mode for the trigger.

Likewise, if you need to deal with such characters inside of a variable, you need only use %expand() and specify how much expansion you wish to have--with, I think, -3 indicating no expansion at all.

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Newbie Joined: 25 Dec 2001 Posts: 5 Location: Canada

Just to note, but the solution you gave me didn't work... the pattern test works, but when I receive the actual text from the mud, nothing at all happens...

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