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Novice Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 30

You see exits leading north, east (open door), southeast, south, and west (open
door).

Exit line from Achaea.. Basically I want to parse all these directions to variables, I have the triggers to pick up North, East, Southeast, south, east, etc.
but when im in a room with only exit being southeast, It parses SOUTH, and EAST, How can I get the triggers to parse STRICTLY only a SINGLE WORD DEFINED.
I don't want it to parse North and West, when it's northwest, I only want northwest.
THANK YOU [:o]

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:54 pm

Switch you trigger to RegEx and use word boundaries

Adept Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 292 Location: Boston

I know a little regex but all that looks confusing, does ZMud do boundaries?

To me Achaean exits were best gotten by a wildcard, as like in shallam cath you have a multiline room full of doors, after I replaced the spaces with |, also ( and ] with q and j so they did not confuse the functions I was using, and processed them into directions and work orders, was just to squint around.

of course this was not really a great thing but it worked for a while

if these are individual triggers on each direction putting ^ at the beginning and ? at the end will solve that. You need to anyway for 4321 triggers it takes to fight in that mud (speed thing)

if all else fails, you could play MUME, to go southeast, it is south and east

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

The %q wildcard does word boundaries. This wildcard is also useful for differentiating between things like "tree" and "treehouse". %y is a similar wildcard (released at the same time as %q was, at least), but I never really grasped what it was actually used for and I don't really think anyone bothers using it.

Also, Tech seems to need more coffee Very Happy

(assuming the topic wasn't moved.)

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:36 am

Definitely more coffee... Laughing