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Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

I'm sure I'm either misusing %subregex here or am writing it entirely wrong.

Either way...

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:21 pm

Why bother with an embedded function? For starters, that's going to be much slower than using the same regex in the trigger pattern, because the pattern's compiled at runtime, every time. Just put that same regex into the trigger and use %1-%4 to store them somewhere.

Also, using a local variable for this means that the values won't be accessible outside that trigger, just fyi.

Oh, and if your question was about the Char.Vitals appearing, you should know that because telnet suboption text is zero-length, it can cause display problems if you use #show, #echo etc, same as if you tried to use #sub. If you want to display something, use an event to do it - you might find that's a good way to go about this anyway, just raise an event called CharVitals that has all the values as perameters, and then you can do whatever you like on that event after that.

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

I haven't played very much with ATCP yet so bare with me here.

Using the same regex individually would still make it a Telnet trigger or not?

About the Char.Vitals thing... I figured there might be something with #show etc but
once I changed local variable to regular one and let it capture 1-4 within %subregex,
it had Char.Vitals as first item. Afterwards came all the correct captures.

It just seemed weird for me, but as I said and you suggested, maybe I'm just
approaching all this incorrectly.

Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:08 am

Magician Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 430

Well, what I meant to ask was that if the Regex within %regex(%line... construct would work on it's own with or without Telnet option checked.

Anyway, I already tried on my own and it does.

Thanks for the nudge towards right direction. Now my general Prompt trigger will make more sense and on the top of that likely be faster, too.