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Novice Joined: 26 Dec 2001 Posts: 43 Location: USA

I followed the example given in the help file on #SUB to shorten "someone tells you" to "someone:" I did it verbatim out of the example which goes like this:

#TRIGGER {(*) tells you,} {#sub {%1:}}

It seems to basically work, except it wraps the text that they are telling me in a very strange way. It does something like this:

Someone tells you: You
seem to be having a lot of trouble using this command.

It only puts the first word of what they say after the colon, then skips a line before continuing the text...what's happening here?

PS I have zmud 6.24 in case that matters.

Thanks

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Be sure the trigger phrase matches your MUD's syntax. For this to work, your MUD would have to send something like:

Someone tells you, "You seem to be having a lot of trouble using this command."

And you would then see:

Someone: "You seem to be having a lot of trouble using this command."

From the sample you provided, it appears that your MUD may be using a : instead of a , and omitting the "'s. The "'s don't matter, but the : and , do.

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Novice Joined: 26 Dec 2001 Posts: 43 Location: USA

Upon closer inspection, I notice that it actually uses a ; instead of a ,. I replaced the , with the ; but still got the same result. Could this be another case of a special character issue? If so, should I tell it to match the pattern with ;; even though it actually only contains one ; in the line I'm trying to match?

Thanks for your help!

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Yes, this is a special-character issue. zMUD uses ; to indicate the end of a line. This allows you to issue multiple commands on the same line -- get apple;eat apple;spit appleseeds. In this case, you'll need to precede it with a ~ so it doesn't tell zMUD to end the trigger early.

#TR {(*) tells you~;} {#SUB {%1:}}

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Novice Joined: 26 Dec 2001 Posts: 43 Location: USA

Thanks so much for your advice! Now back to the drawing board for me.