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Newbie Joined: 23 Jun 2001 Posts: 7 Location: USA

I have tried getting an alias to show me items with no success, hoping somebody here can help me out.

sample text file:
a glowing sword: 5d5 5hit 5dam
a glowing ring: ac3 5hp
a red ring: ac1 1sv_sp

That's how the text item file is setup. What I would like to be able to do with an alias called id or whatever is display all results in the file via a #SAY command to my current window. So:

> id glowing

would return both the ring and sword

> id ring red

would display the red ring

> id red sword

would not display both the red ring and glowing sword, only display results if it matches ALL keywords given.

I've been toying with this for awhile to no avail, somebody help pretty please? :)

Edit: I am using zmud version 6.16 if that matters.

Wanderer Joined: 30 Aug 2001 Posts: 53 Location: Finland

#alias id {#say %grep(2,{%-1})}

Number 2 is the file number.

Newbie Joined: 23 Jun 2001 Posts: 7 Location: USA

Hey thanks for the reply, that works but outputs everything into a big paragraph form (each item is seperated by a |) instead of putting each item on it's own line, which isn't exactly easy to read. Didn't account for all keywords either, did an id ring ac3 for example to try and return all rings that have ac3 and it returned nothing.

Any way around these issues?

Wanderer Joined: 30 Aug 2001 Posts: 53 Location: Finland

#alias id {#forall %grep(2,{%-1}) {#show %i}}

id ring? ac3
id glowing * ac3
id a %w sword

check 'Pattern Matching' in zMUD helps

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

%grep supports pattern matching exactly as triggers do. So in your example to match the line that has the 2 keywords ring and ac3 you could do "ring * ac3". In order to do that automatically would take far more code then is worth.