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Novice Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 31

Is there a way to get a trigger to recognize a pattern starting with a "!" ?
Here is the idea:
#IF (%2 == "~!page") {blah} {blah}
It doesnt seem to work begining with the "!" mark, but if I remove it and just have "page" it works like a charm. Is there a trick to this?

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

1)ZMud does not use the == operator. Everything that requires == uses =.

2)ZMud does not execute pattern-matching via the =, use =~ instead. IE, %2 =~ "!page"

NOTE: the next public version of ZMud introduces a new function to make pattern-matching much more intuitive and easy. I don't know if Zugg is retaining the =~ operator or not, though.

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

#TR {test (%x)} {#IF ("%1" = "!page") {blah} {I'm sure I could think of something more interesting than "blah"}}

Novice Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 31

The ~ was an attempt to recognize the ! in the case it was a special character.
The == works just the same as = in my applications, and unless it is an absolute /must/ then I'm not going to go through all my triggers and change them. They work for now.

Thanks LightBulb, the trick was the "" around the %2.

-Darkmere

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The == syntax is supported if not well documented. It was implemented a long time ago to ease us poor C programmers used to using == for comparison.