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

I am using Zmud 6.62.

Here is my trigger pattern:

^* is auctioning (*) ~(Level *, Num (%d)~). Current bid is *.$

The first action I perform is:

#VAR db_obj_name {%1} _nodef datamine

This works well until the data I'm trying to capture contains a { or a } symbol. If I change it to:

#VAR db_obj_name "%1" _nodef datamine

it solves /that/ problem, but then if the data I'm trying to capture contains a double quote ("), it bombs on me again.

I even investigated using %literal, but that doesn't seem to help me either. Is there another command/function I'm missing that could help me write something that will accept both?

Thanks in advance.

Adept Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 222 Location: Chile

You can try with the %* wildcard, will catch any zMUD special symbol but is risky for security reasons explained in some other threads.

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

I considered that, but like you said, decided not to for security reasons.

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

can you possible remove the " and { without effecting your scripts.

example.

^* is auctioning (*) ~(Level *, Num (%d)~). Current bid is *.$
#VAR db_obj_name {%replace(%replace(%1,"{" ""),"") _nodef datamine

not sure if this will work, but perhaps some alternative of this.

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

I'm afraid I don't quite understand your example, as there is an opening brace but no closing brace. The %1 needs to either be in { } marks or " " marks, because if what I'm capturing is more than one word, and I don't use those symbols, only the first word will be stored in the variable.

Anyone else?

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

Use the &varname syntax to get the matched text straight to a variable and avoid having to expand %1:
^* is auctioning &db_obj_name ~(Level *, Num (%d)~). Current bid is *.$