Zugg Software :: View topic - Capturing Text that maay or may not be there

Newbie Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 4

How do I do a trigger where it's something like this

#TR {something scan something} {scan}

scan will alays be there, but anything can be before it or after it or it can just be the word it self...

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:37 am

Try this

#TR {* scan *} {scan}

The star acts as a wildcard. If it's just one word, then this would work better.

#TR {%w scan %w} {scan}

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 1:29 pm

Newbie Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 4

I guess I should've been more specific....
so like it'lll be
Someone tells the group, 'scan, in entish'
Someone tells the group, 'something scan'

I want it to scan on each of those and even if they just ask scan...

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

#TR {tells the group, '(*)scan(*)'} {scan}
That will scan on any group tell with scan mentioned in it.

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 6:58 pm

This is probably more what you want then... assuming it's always someone telling the group.

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:02 pm

Ralgith's trigger captures and doesn't need to, but that won't hurt. Tech's trigger fails to match if the "scan" is at the start of the tell. I'd use a combination of the two:

#trig {tells the group, '*scan} {scan}

Sorcerer Joined: 13 Jan 2006 Posts: 715

Tthat works, I'm just used to always capturing grin :)
Usually because I put limitations on my triggers.