Zugg Software :: View topic - Trigger problems. Maybe I need to use regex?

Beginner Joined: 11 Jun 2009 Posts: 16

Ok, so I'll start off by showing an example of text from the mud:

A watchman is one west, a door northeast of one east and one southeast, a jovial priestess, a prayerful woman, a troll bodyguard and a grasping trader are one east and one southeast, the limit of your vision is one east and one southeast from here, a dirty pigeon and a short troll are two west and the limit of your vision is two west from here.

What I want to do is have it grab all npc names and echo them with their respective directions. I have:

#TRIGGER {({@npcs}){s|es|} {and*|}{is|are} ({@numbers}) ({@directions}), {^@numbers}} {#ECHO <color red>%1: @numbers.%2 %3.</color>}
#TRIGGER {({@npcs}){s|es|} {and*|}{is|are} ({@numbers}) ({@directions}) and ({@numbers}) ({@directions}){,| and the limit of your vision}} {#ECHO <color red>%1: @numbers.%2 %3, @numbers.%4 %5.</color>}
#TRIGGER {({@npcs}){s|es|} {and*|}{is|are} ({@numbers}) ({@directions}), ({@numbers}) ({@directions}) and ({@numbers}) ({@directions}){,| and the limit of your vision}} {#ECHO <color red>%1: @numbers.%2 %3, @numbers.%4 %5, @numbers.%6 %7.</color>}
#TRIGGER {({@npcs}){s|es|} {is|are} ({@numbers}) ({@directions}) and the limit of your vision} {#ECHO <color red>%1: @numbers.%2 %3.</color>}

I have three variables

#VAR directions {north|west|east|south|northeast|southeast|southwest|northwest}
#VAR numbers {two=2|one=1|three=3|four=4|five=5} A database here just to make it echo 1 instead of one, 2 instead of 2 etc.
Last is a string list of all the npcs I would need, called @npcs.

This works fairly well for me. The problem is that there are so many different possibilities:

Npc1 is one east,
Npc1 is one east, one southeast,
Npc1 is one east, one southeast, one east,
Npc1 and Npc2 are one east, etc..
Npc1, Npc2 and Npc3 are one east, etc..
And so on.

It seems like there would be a way to display ALL the npcs, even when they're in the same room, where at the moment it only displays the last one for me.
Another thing to note is someone else tried this and it does things slightly differently. For example:

A bodyguard and a trader are one east

For me this would echo trader: 1 east. For the other person it echos bodyguard: 1 east. Not sure why. I have 3.08 and she has 2.36 though, maybe they're processing it differently.

I would really appreciate any help on this. I can't really think of any way to improve it without making separate triggers for every possible scenario, though it seems like that might cause more problems than it would fix.

Thanks in advance!