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Newbie Joined: 07 Dec 2002 Posts: 1

I sent this as a feedback, but haven't managed to get the answer the work.

On the mud I play, word wrap is set by the mud itself; I think it's 80 characters. Items in a room are appended to the end of the room description in the same paragraph. So you may have...

Room name.
This is a room, that big X where you happen to be, and it looks like what I am telling
you it looks like. A creature stands here, doing something amusing. An item that you
want to trigger a pattern on lies here, frustratingly. You see exits in all
directions.

So here I am trying to set a trigger to fire on that item lying on the floor. Due to the variable length of the room description and the possibility of other people/things in the room, there could be a hard line-break in the middle of the pattern I want, and it could end up anywhere in the pattern, or the pattern could be on a single line complete.

so far, my only solution has been to make two triggers, one that says...
"An item that you want to trigger a pattern"
and
"pattern on lies here, frustratingly."
...and set the same value for both. It's bulky and sloppy.

zuggsoft tells me to use $ for line breaks, but after playing with it, I'm unable to figure out exactly what it is I'm supposed to do with the $ in the pattern.

I *have* tried making the trigger pattern to look for a variable amount of white space between each word, and that didn't work. Apparently the incoming line break in the text is recognized by zMud.

Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2002 2:39 pm

Hmm.. Sounds like fun ;)

A solution could be to automatically capture the entire room description in a variable when you enter the room, and then trigger on or search in this variable for the item. For example with an expression trigger with the pattern: %pos("Item", @roomtext).

To capture the text you need to do somthing like capturing all text that appears after you type in a direction, and append it to a variable with something like: roomtext = %concat(@roomtext, " ", "%1")

Theres no prefect way of capturing text thats broken up on more than one line at the moment .(

Lady C.

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

In cases like this, it's best to keep your patterns as SHORT as possible. If you can trigger on a single word, it won't matter where the line breaks.

$ is used in patterns to represent the line-break itself, but that's only useful when you have a good idea of where the line will break.

LightBulb
Senior Member