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Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

I have a trigger for my prompt in a mud a play, and I have been having trouble getting it to exactly work how I want.

Here is an example of my prompt while not fighting:
[HP:196 SP:170 XL:910659 $:1244][100 98 100 100 100 100]:

However! The last 6 sets of numbers on my prompt are my soldiers HP's. While im fighting, whichever of my soldiers that is tanking has a set of ( ) around his HP. Something like

[HP:196 SP:170 XL:910659 $:1244][100 (98) 100 100 100 100]:

The original trigger I had was:
~[HP:(%d) SP:(%d) XL:(%n) ~$:(%d)~]~[(*%d*) (*%d*) (*%d*) (*%d*) (*%d*) (*%d*)~]:

This however stores value %6 as (98) and I only want the 98. How can I make my trigger so it will recognize my prompt while not fighting, and while a soldier is tanking.. and store the soldiers HP values without including the parentheses that are sometimes there.

If you would like a more detailed description of this, please let me know.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

Simple solution would be ranges. Instead of using this:

(*%d*)

use this:

[~(~) ](%d)[~(~) ]

The stuff in square brackets tells zmud to match on any combination of any length of a continuous string of either parentheses and spaces. Further work will be needed if you also need to identify your tank, but I'm guessing that's all done via separate commands.

Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

Ok, so I get what you are saying.. and I switched it to:

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Use your original trigger and surround the storing of your soldiers with %eval. Alternately you could capture all the soldier values at once and store them in a single list by %replace("%5"," ","|") then whenever you pull out a soldier value with %item it would have the parenthesis stripped.

Beginner Joined: 26 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

Thank you so much vijilante, i used your %eval suggestion while storing the variables. Thanks a lot