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Novice Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 42

What i'd like to do is to create a script that will inform my groupies of anyone in the area. I will accomplish this by issuing the command where and the following output is directly from the mud.

Players in your vicinity:
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Whiteknight - A narrow trail through the deep, dark forest
Xarm - A narrow trail through the deep, dark forest
Peter - A narrow trail through the deep, dark forest

if these 3 people are NOT in my clanlist i want to gt and inform my group of thier presence and what room they are in.

The output would be almost identical as listed above for each person that is not in my clanlist.

Thanks in advance to all you supersmart people out there!

Apprentice Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 108

use the %ismember function to check for them in your clanlist

whence it returns false on that check, gt the name and room.

Using #trigger and #cond will allow you to capture until it meets a unique line which distinguishes that the presence/scanning has ended.

Novice Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 42

Well the thought did cross my mind however i've been unable to get it to work. If you could help me actually write the script to do it that would be very helpful as i'm unable to figure it out.

Thanks!

Apprentice Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 108

I've gotten it to work so far, but I need to know of a unique line that will be followed by that scan. Is there any or is it your prompt? Oh and btw, I've used "Loop pattern" as a condition type, but since it will not work with only 0 in param, I used 50 (meaning it'll only catch 50 ppl at tops...)

Anyway, I'm sure there are many refinements to the code I've done so far, but ... I'll post it anyway and if you have any unique lines that'd be great.

Novice Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 42

Well i think we are getting somewhere i've gotten this to work about 80% now. :) thanks!

I think the problem is that the trigger ^(%w) - (*)$ has a different amout of spaces between the users name and the room they are in and the trigger does not fire for everyone.

Below is a copy / paste from the screen output. You notice the different spaces here.

If i add spaces to the trigger like this..

Wanderer Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 98 Location: OK, USA

Use %s after the (%w) to capture all the white space.
{^(%w)%s- (*)$}

Novice Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 42

Well this still did not solve the problem.
The trigger is not firing for everyone just some people.
When the trigger fires this is the output of what is happening.

Players in your vicinity:
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Warehouse - A cozy corner
Chaszmyr - A grungy little alleyway
gt Chaszmyr - A grungy little alleyway
Amon - The Meta Shop
gt Amon - The Meta Shop
Duggal - The Albatross Tavern
gt Duggal - The Albatross Tavern
Spirit - Sativa Street
gt Spirit - Sativa Street
Mean - The Albatross Tavern
Avalios - Chamber of Current Events
Madcow - A cozy corner
Chrate - Chamber of Charity
Tarragon - Eas-o-matic's Weapon-o-rama
Fireball - The Meta Shop
Manganash - Chamber of Charity
Kaug - The Albatross Tavern
Eore - A cozy corner
Cho - The Albatross Tavern
Solon - The Albatross Tavern
Peter - A cozy corner
Ohm - A cozy corner
Xarm - A cozy corner
Terror - A cozy corner

I hope this helps.