Zugg Software :: View topic - Capturing gossip channel with 2-3 word char names

Beginner Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 26 Location: USA

I've got the following being captured:

Razak gossips, 'they are dead now'

with this pattern:

* gossips, '*'$

But sometimes I get people with multiple names that will still work, but if they gossip something with "says" in it, it captures to my says window.

says, '*'$

So if I were to get

Darth Malcolm gossips, 'look what he Storm said. Storm says, 'dear god I suck''

that would #CAP the line to my gossip window AND my says window.

I was thinking of a pattern that would see if it was a name that consisited of one, two, or three words, and then cap it:

^{%w|%w %w|%w %w %w} gossips, '*'

Though this looks for "%w" and not an actual word of some type. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
MadBomber

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Currently Using zMUD 6.37aBeta

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Try these two patterns:
^[a-zA-Z ] gossips, '*'$
^[a-zA-Z ] says, '*'$

Kjata