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Newbie Joined: 30 Jan 2002 Posts: 9 Location: Canada

Ok.. just need a little help. I'm starting to use triggers and don't have extensive experience in making them. I can make basic triggers to send multiple lines to the mud and whatnot. I use a lot of variables in aliases and would like to integrate them into my triggers.
For starters (well, this will be the only one at the moment.)

Line to trigger to:
"<target> slaps you across the face"

How do I make it so that the trigger recognizes <target> and so that I can set it to "slap" this person back.

I know this question is abreeze for most of you, but hey, I gotta start somewhere.

~Fate

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

Great stuff on intro here:
Getting Started

Basic triggers here:
Introduction to Triggers

How to pattern match your triggers:
expressions and wildcard characters

TonDiening
Uses 6.16

Newbie Joined: 30 Jan 2002 Posts: 9 Location: Canada

ah, thanks

~Fate

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

quote:

ah, thanks

~Fate

You presumably know what a variable looks like in code (commonly like @variablename, though it can appear as &variablename in certain situations).

If you simply want to use a variable in a trigger pattern WITHOUT altering the contents, simply insert the @variablename syntax in the position where needed:

@target just slapped you

If you want to capture the person into the target variable, you can use wildcards/special characters which will then be assigned to system variables you can in turn assign to your own variables, like so:

#trigger {(%w) slaps you} {#VAR target %1}

or you can use the reference character (&) to capture the value straight from the trigger pattern without having to later assign it to a variable, like so:

#trigger {&target just slapped you.} {}

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

Newbie Joined: 30 Jan 2002 Posts: 9 Location: Canada

Yeah, I scoped out the link to the trigger and variable helps. They answered my question. I basically knew what I had to do, I just didn't know what the code was.

Example {(%W) slaps you......
I just didn't know whate character to use..
%w, %a, %s, %x and whatnot.

Thanks again. Can count on me to come up with more questions soon =P
Peace

~Fate