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Newbie Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 3

Hey all,

I'm kinda new to this, so probably this has been answered already..

How would you set zMUD up to trigger multiple instances on one line

Lets say that my trigger should add one to var blah everytime blah shows up

So

Blah dfds Blah dfdsfs Blah fdsfs Blah

Should give a value of 4, but I can't figure out how to do this

Thanks :)

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

#TR {blah} {#VAR TempCounter %trigger;#WHILE (%pos("blah",@TempCounter) {#ADD blah 1;TempCounter=%remove("blah",@TempCounter)}}

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

Why would anyone bother counting "blah"'s? Just move to a more interesting MUD!
Is there any good reason to conceal what you actually want to count?

Anyway, something like this should do it.

#TR {blah} {#MATH blah {%if(%begins({%trigger},"blah"),1,0) + %if(%ends({%trigger),"blah"),1,0) + %numwords({%trigger},"blah") - 1}

LightBulb
Senior Member

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I like Lightbulb's better, of course he has a few typos and I can shorten it a little.
#TR {blah} {#MATH blah {%begins({%trigger},"blah") + %ends({%trigger},"blah") + %numwords({%trigger},"blah") - 1}}

The is no accounting for taste, blah that is bad.

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

Typos? I don't see any. But you're right, %if isn't needed. Nice.
AHA! I did find one

LightBulb
Senior Member

Newbie Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 3

Err, I was just too lazy to type it out at first

What I really want to do is to execute a command whenever a certain pattern comes up

So basically the pattern would be :

Name1.......[213]

No given amount of periods, and this could happen multiple times on a line

Name1....[121] Name2...[1] Name3...[34]

Lets say I want to 'whois %1' everytime I see this, how would I go about doing this?

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

quote:

Err, I was just too lazy to type it out at first

What I really want to do is to execute a command whenever a certain pattern comes up

So basically the pattern would be :

Name1.......[213]

No given amount of periods, and this could happen multiple times on a line

Name1....[121] Name2...[1] Name3...[34]

Lets say I want to 'whois %1' everytime I see this, how would I go about doing this?

#trigger {Name1[.]~[%d~]} {}

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Newbie Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 3

Err, ok, I want the pattern to be (%w)[.]~[%d~], but it still only gets one instance, rather then however many I have on the same line.

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

Grab the whole line and convert it to a stringlist using the space as a delimiter. Then, on each one, grab the name by using the period as a delimiter:
#TRIGGER {(*)} {#FORALL %replace("%1", " ", "|") {whois %word(%i, 1, ".")}} "" {notrig}

You need, however, to enable this trigger only when it is necessary and disable it when it is not. You would not want this trigger firing on every word that your MUD sends.

Remember, there are many different way to approach and solve a particular problem, unless specifics about the problem are given, a general solution may be provided which doesn't quite fit what you need.

Kjata