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Beginner Joined: 28 Oct 2001 Posts: 10 Location: Canada

Hello all,

This is probably gonna seem like child's play to most here, but I'm not great when it comes to programming and dealing with variables.

I play Empire (wraith.aplus.net:4000) and they use a multiple coin system. I can make simple triggers, (you are hunrgy, eat food, etc). But what I want to do is drop a certain amount of coins that I pick up.

The mud output is set up like this:

There were 181 platinum, 5 gold, 6 silver and 28 copper coins.

What I'd like to do(if possible) is have 1 trigger to filter out all these coin combinations and only drop the copper coins(least valuable and heavy to carry). I can make my character(s) drop the copper coins (using *, %d and %1 variables). Right now I have one trigger for each combination of coins(16 combinations if I calcluate right). Now I'm sure there is a more efficicent quicker way to do this.

Could some one kindly guide me as to how to do this easier?

Thanks for any and all suggestions.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Sure, you don't need to create a trigger for every possible combination, just create one pattern that matches all. Example:
#TRIGGER {There were * and (%d) copper coins.} {drop %1 copper}

If you don't get any copper coins, the trigger pattern won't match and nothing will happen. if you do get some copper coins, no matter what combination of the others you get, there will always be the "and # copper coins." text and the trigger will fire.

Kjata

Beginner Joined: 28 Oct 2001 Posts: 10 Location: Canada

Ok. That's how I'm basically set up right now. But the thing is sometimes it's multiple combinations of coins.

Ex:

I kill a wild hippogriff. Empire says: There were 2 gold and 2300 copper coins.

I kill a wood elf. Empire says:
There were 5 gold, 3 silver and 96 copper coins.

I'm set up now with like 16 different triggers. * gold, and (%d) copper. * platinum, * silver and (%d) copper. Depending on the combination I get, Zmud has to sift through all these triggers and sometimes it doesn't catch the combinations correctly or I haven't covered every combination.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

But the trigger I posted should match both of your cases and other combinations of gold (present/not present), silver (present/not present), etc. Actually, I only suggest removing one word from what I posted:
#TRIGGER {There were*(%d) copper coins.} {drop %1 copper}

This works because it doesn't care what comes after "There were" and before "# copper coins." it just cares that both of these strings are there. Then it looks at the number right before "copper coins." and drops that much copper coins.

Kjata