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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 8:11 pm

I'm trying to capture a channel on a MUD. I got part of the trigger working correctly, but the @ symbol is throwing it off. The line I'm trying to caputer looks like this:

[imud_gossip@I3] Person@SomeMUD says, 'Yeah, right!'

This is actually fairly easy, except that the @I3 is making it harder than it needs to be. Normally this would work:

^.*~[imud_gossip~@I3~]

But that doesn't work in this case, and I dunno why. I also tried a regular expression, but the regex that I get from my tools don't work with the perl regex in zMUD. I'm baffled. Can somebody lend me a hand?

Novice Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 38 Location: Australia

Hrm. If you read the help file on regex, it tells you (in another colour too) that the prefix for @ should be a '~' instead of a '\' in zmud to stop zmud parsing a variable.

Therefore this works on mine in perl regex:

#TRIG {[imud_gossip~@I3] } {#SHOW triggered!}

Luggage

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:24 am

Yes, I read the help file, and yes, I already know that the tilde (~) is the escape character. It is not working, and that's why I came here for help. All of my regex testing tools work with this perl regex:

^(.*)[imud_gossip@I3](.*)

This is a valid perl regex, but it doesn't work with either escaping or not escaping the @ symbol with either a \ or ~. @I3 is not a variable, it is part of the line I'm trying to capture.

Any more suggestions?

Apprentice Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 135

How 'bout matching a single character where the @ normally is. Something like,

#TR {~[imud_gossip?I3~]}

(no zmud to test att)

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:42 pm

Yes, that worked! The final pattern ended up being:

~[imud_gossip?I3~](*)

Thanks, Slaem!

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 873 Location: USA

A more restrictive solution that should work for you is a regex pattern of:
^(.*)[[]imud_gossip[@]I3](.*)

Tested using 7.20b with your sample text
[imud_gossip@I3] Person@SomeMUD says, 'Yeah, right!'

The double "[" is not a typo.

Why did you want to have a start of line anchor next to an optional wildcard? You'd probably be better off ditching the "(.*)" at the beginning if all of the text you want to catch looks like your sample.

-Tarn

Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 6:39 pm

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 873 Location: USA