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Novice Joined: 28 Oct 2001 Posts: 43 Location: USA

Okay I have this script that i want to use to make leveling a bit less tedious :) Here it goes ...
In a class called 'crocs' i have this trigger ...
Pattern: A sneaky crocodile who is %1 to the %2.
Action:
#t- crocs2
#col 12
#if (%1 = right here) {
#var moves 1
crocoff
} {}
#if (%1 = close by) {
#var moves 2
crocoff
} {}
#if (%1 = not far off) {
#var moves 3
crocoff
} {}
#if (%1 = a brief walk away) {
#var moves 4
crocoff
} {}
#if (%1 = rather far off) {
#var moves 5
crocoff
} {}
#if (%1 = off in the distance) {
#var moves 6
crocoff
} {}

crocoff is an alias to turn the class off

The line the game sends that this is supossed to trigger off of is ...

A sneaky crocodile who is not far off to the northwest.
"not far off" is replaced with one of 6 phrases and i want it to set @moves to a number storing how many times i have to move in a certain direction, I have another trigger that sets which direction i need to go the exact same way and its working fine. Problem is @moves allways equals 6, and i cant figure out why. If anyone can explain it to me i would appreciate it :)

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

First, you should know that %1..%n should not be used inside a trigger pattern. You mya get unexpected results from doing this. Instead, you use the wildcards mentioned in the help file. In your case, the pattern would be:
A sneaky crocodile who is (*) to the (%w).

Each wildcard that you enclose in parenthesis is saved to one of the %n variables. In this case, whatever was matched by * is saved to %1 and whatever was matched by %w is saved to %2.

Having explained that, lets get to your problem. What happens is that %1 contains multiple words and so does the string that you are comparing it to in the #IF. When this happens, zMUD gets confused. To avoid this, enclose the string and %1 in double quotes:
#IF ("%1" = "right here") {...} {}

and so on for the others.

Kjata