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I'm probably going to have to do things via multiple triggers, but I'd like to try it this way first.

I have a trigger with this pattern:

~[(%*)~]

which matches three sets of bracketed messages as follows:

[3 sec. delay]
[Room name here.]
[ You hear the sound of roosters crowing. ] (there are four messages of this type, two for sunset and two for sunrise)

the above pattern is the only way to capture the room name (not all room names have a period at the end), but of course it'll capture the other two as well. I wish to do two separate things for the extra two messages, but how to do I extract the number from the delay message via ~=?

This is the body of the trigger as I have it thus far:

#IF ("%1" != " You hear the sound of roosters crowing. " and "%1" != " Daybreak. The sun has just risen. " and !%pos( delay, %1)) {
#CW Magenta,bold
#T+ tRoomDesc
} {#IF ("%1" ~= "(%d) sec. delay") {
#SAY yep
delay = %%1
} {#SAY nope}}

The bold part is where I deal with the delay and sun messages. Although the #IF command correctly matches the condition, I'm having trouble extracting the number into the @delay variable so I can work with it in the delay counter. Any tips/suggestions?

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

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Do it the easy way
#TR {~[(%d) sec. delay~]} {delay = %1}

P.S. You'll note that there wasn't any particular value to me quoting your entire post, since you could have just scrolled back up if you needed to read it again.

LightBulb
Vague questions get vague answers

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I would recommend you continue to use the more general trigger you have now.

You can detect the delay messages with code like this...
#IF (%isnumber(%word("%1",1))) {do stuff} {check for time messages and roomname}

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Forgot all about %word()! Now where's that cap at, hmm?

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD