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Novice Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 34

Hello, a pattern in my MUD is giving me tons of trouble, and I have no idea how I would go about triggering off of it.

The pattern is as follows:

A *****ly stinging overcomes your body, fading away into numbness.

However, there are always exactly three *'s, placed randomly within this message, each one replacing a letter. Also, one letter or space next to one of these *'s may be cut out, randomly. Here are some sample messages:

A *****ly stingin*overcomes yo*r body, fading away into numbness.
A *****ly stinging overcomes your body,*fading away into num**ss.
A *****l*stinging overcomes your b*dy, fa*ing away into numbness.
A p*ickl*stinging overcomes your body, fadin* away into numbness.
A *****ly stingi*g overcomes your *dy, fading away into n*mbness.
A *ickl* stinging overcomes your body, fading *way into numbness.
A pr*ckly stinging *erc*mes your body, fading away into numbness.

This is my current pattern, but it does not account for the single disappearing letter or space:

{A|~*}{ |~*}{p|~*}{r|~*}{i|~*}{c|~*}{k|~*}{l|~*}{y|~*}{ |~*}{s|~*}{t|~*}{i|~*}{n|~*}{g|~*}{i|~*}{n|~*}{g|~*}{ |~*}{o|~*}{v|~*}{e|~*}{r|~*}{c|~*}{o|~*}{m|~*}{e|~*}{s|~*}{ |~*}{y|~*}{o|~*}{u|~*}{r|~*}{ |~*}{b|~*}{o|~*}{d|~*}{y|~*}{,|~*}{ |~*}{f|~*}{a|~*}{d|~*}{i|~*}{n|~*}{g|~*}{ |~*}{a|~*}{w|~*}{a|~*}{y|~*}{ |~*}{i|~*}{n|~*}{t|~*}{o|~*}{ |~*}{n|~*}{u|~*}{m|~*}{b|~*}{n|~*}{e|~*}{s|~*}{s|~*}{.|~*}

Is anyone able to shed some light on this problem for me?

Novice Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 34

Ahhh, it seems the censor took out the "p r i c k" in "*****ly". I hope you can still understand my problem.

Apprentice Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 190 Location: Canada

Maybe this isn't exactly what you were lookign for, but it might help from a logical standpoint... since there are exactly 3 asterisks, but there are 10 words, wouldn't it be feasibly to create a state machine that triggered itself on the individual words, and if it counted 7 words from the pattern (since the stars can only mess up 3 of them potentially), then trigger your action?

An afterthought... I wouldn't count the 'A' in the beginning as a word, so adjust numbers to 9, and 6 respectively :)

Wish I could help you with more specific code, but I'm still rather new at it myself... just hope this might put you on a different track.

Wizard Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 1368

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

A solution to this was found a long time ago. The they changed it around some to make it harder to initially trigger the detection, but it isn't that hard. Start with a word list.
#VAR WordList {*****ly|stinging|overcomes|fading|numbness}
Note: They only do a limited number of asterisks, the word list for a given line must exceed that number to assure a match on one uncorrupted word.

Now add a trigger that matches on the word list then uses a reverse matching method.
#TR {{@WordList}} {#IF (%match("A *****ly stinging overcomes your body, fading away into numbness.", %line)) {#NOOP we got a match, do something}}
Since the character they use "*" is pattern wildcard we can directly use the line sent as the pattern in our match function, and use the correct line in what would be the normal input position.

This is untested, but the theory is accurate.

Wizard Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 1368