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Newbie Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 4 Location: USA

I'm running ZMUD 7.04 (on W2K) and am having problems configuring the mapper for a certain area. This area has descriptions that look like this:

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This is what i would like the room title to be
Mini-Map [] Here is where the actual description of the room
|+pppppppp [] will be. It might mention what you see to the
|ppppppppp [] north, which is a nice meadow. To the east it
|ppvvvpppp [] might mention the tall grasses. To the south is
|pvpppvvppp [] another description and finally it could say that
=vppppppvpp [] there is scrub brush to the west.
|pppp*ppvpp []
|ppppppppvv []
pppppppppp [] Type legend to interpret the mini-map.
__|pppppppp []
^p|ppppppp/ []
^+|+ppppp/p []
Obvious exits: north, southeast, northeast, west, northwest,
east, south and southwest.

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Because of the characters in the maps on the left, I thought I would make a mapping class and add a trigger to remove everything to the left of (and including) "[]". I was kind of able to do this with a #sub inside a trigger. However, because of the blank lines that were left, it seems to confuse the automapper configurator. I think if I could find a trigger that would do the following, i would be ok:
1) remove [] and everything to the left.
2) if the remaining line is blank, #GAG it.
3) if the remaining line is "Type legend to interpret the mini-map.", #GAG it
4) Add a blank line after the title line of the description
5) Add a blank line before the "Obvious Exits:" line.

I can do bits and pieces of this separately, but when i try to do them all, I get garbled results. Can someone help me? Perhaps I don't even need the triggers, and could do this in the Mapper configuration, but I've been unsuccessful in that, too (largely because of subtle inconsistancies between rooms... Like sometimes the "Obvious Exits" will have a blank line above it, and sometimes it wont)

Thanks!

Lego

Newbie Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 4 Location: USA

more information:

To filter out the left side of the description, i triggered on:

(*) [] (*)

and then

#sub "%2"

This worked. I then tried to combine the removal of the one string that always appeared with:

#if (%2 <> "Type legend to interpret the mini-map.") {#sub "%2"} {#sub ""}

(I also tried #GAG in place of the second sub). This gives me garbled results (some lines missing that i don't expect, the legend line not missing, and unusual spacing)

I think if i could figure out why this doesn't work, i might be able to figure out how to do the rest of the things i want to do... Any help is greatly appreciated!

Lego