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Beginner Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 27 Location: USA

I am building a database script for items in my mud. So far I have every field covered except how to trigger the following:

Object 'a wraith weapon'...
It is a level 18 staff, weight 5.
Locations it can be worn: hold
Special properties: hum
This staff has a gold value of 1290.
Has 7(7) charges of level 28:
'wraith bomb'

The bold and italics fields are the ones I cannot get to work. How do I make a trigger that gathers the information from both lines? I don't know how to do multiple line triggers [xx(]

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 656 Location: USA

Been a while since I did this type of trigger. you may want to look into how people do some of the other multi-line triggers.

#tr {Has 7(7) charges of level 28:$'wraith bomb'} {dosomething}

try something like that or..

#tr {Has (%d)~((%d)~) charges of level (%d)~:$'(*)'} {say %1 or %2 charges for spell %4 at level %3}

PS - This code is NOT tested.

Beginner Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 27 Location: USA

So far that hasn't been of any use at all. Have any other suggestions?

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

Talahaski's trigger captures ALL the variable portions of the pattern. Anything you could possibly want in the database is right there in %1 to %4. It's a shame that you just dismiss his answer, since there's nothing left to suggest that will glean any additional information from that section of the identify.

The only thing left is to decide what information needs to go into the database, what fieldtype would be best for each piece of information, and what to name the fields, and then make those fields and use the appropriate commands to store the information in the database. If you were able to cover the rest of the database, that shouldn't be any problem at all.

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 656 Location: USA

Please be more specific on what aspect of the trigger is not working. Is the trigger firing on your input? Is the trigger not writing to the database - I did not give you code for writing to the database.

Give me a few more example. If it's not firing perhaps there are some spaces that have not been accounted for.

#tr {Has (%d)~((%d)~) charges of level (%d)~:%s$%s'(*)'} {say %1 or %2 charges for spell %4 at level %3}

Also tell us how you have your database set up and what the field names/types are.

Beginner Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 27 Location: USA

It is truly a shame that you assume I dismissed Talahaski's answer. It was of minimal help as I mentioned. The problem I am having is that the solution given still does not capture the information on the first line.. it only captures the second line. Perhaps it is a version issue. I am on 5.55, maybe that is why. As always, all feedback is appreciated. And, since all of my fields are already set (as I said.. yay reading), that isn't an issue either. Perhaps it is my version of Zmud.

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

Your text
Has 7(7) charges of level 28:
'wraith bomb'

Talahaski's trigger. There's nothing in it that wasn't available in version 5.55
#tr {Has (%d)~((%d)~) charges of level (%d)~:$'(*)'} {say %1 or %2 charges for spell %4 at level %3}

%1, %2, and %3 all match things on the first line, %4 is almost the entire second line. I don't expect that any of the other text on the first line will change. What is it you want on the first line that isn't being captured?

As Talahaski said, please be more specific.