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Beginner Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 18

Could anyone point out to me where the flaw(s) is in this?

Wizard Joined: 15 Jan 2002 Posts: 1644 Location: USA

#CLASS {Highlights}
#ALIAS adb {#ADDITEM buddies "%1"}
#VAR buddies {}
#TRIGGER {{@buddies}} {#cw pink}
#CLASS 0

Beginner Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 18

Thanks! I forgot it was additem and not add.

Apprentice Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 157 Location: USA

Might also want to make the trigger on {%q{@buddies}%q} to reduce false hits.

Newbie Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 2

I have a quick question related to this... what if instead of changing the color of the pattern or highlighting it I wanted to append text to the line that the text had happened on.

For instance if the pattern was

John the Male Dwarf

and I wanted to make it so that I saw:

John the Male Dwarf [Friend]

Somehow I need to capture the entire line and append text to the end. I was trying to do something like:

#TRIGGER {%q{@friends}%q(%*)} {#sub {%1 %2 ~[Friend~]}}

but that doesn't really work. I've had other derivatives of the solution working but then weird things would happen, for instance if I had a name in the list called Tow, and I saw a tower in a room description, it would fire the trigger. Its my understanding that the %q might help?

Apprentice Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 157 Location: USA

The %q will make it so it only matches that as a word; %q matches a space, punctuation, or beginning or end of line. Making it case-sensitive can also help.

Newbie Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 2

Well I'm trying to match 4 main cases...

Lord George
Lord George, The King of All
George
George, Lord of All

and not match the cases of

George's
George.

I tried with something like this:
#trigger {(%*)({@buddies}){@specialChars}(%*)} {#sub {%1 %2 %3 ~[Friend~]}}

where buddies is {George|John} and specialChars is {,| } but this doesn't match all of the cases, most notably a case where you have just the buddy's name without anything trailing.

Any hints?

Eventually I'd like to do something similar with spell effects too, like:

George is blinded! [F2 to cure]

that case is a little easier to tackle than this highlighting case though.

Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 135

untested - can't remember if the #SUB parameters need quotes, like "%1", etc.

#TR {(*)({@buddies}){| |,}(*)} {#SUB {%1 %2 %3 [Friend]}}