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Newbie Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 4

Greetings! I hail from achaea and i am having some problems with a trigger to capture names from a channel. The trigger may have more than 10-20 names, but the problem is that they may be on different lines.

The raw output from the mud is:

(Party): Someone says, "Enemies: Person1, Person2, Person3, Person4."

It may also be:

(Party): Someone says, "Enemies: Person1, Person2, Person3, Person4,
Person5, Person6, Person7."

(and maybe up to a third line).

So i figure out i would work a trigger to capture the names before the next prompt. How would i go about doing this?

I have (for one line):

~(Party~)~: Someone says, ~"Enemies~: (*)~, (*)~, (*)~, (*)~, (*)~, (*)~, (*)~, (*)~, (*)~, (*)~.~"

But as you can see it needs to have all spots filled for the trigger to match. I don't know how would i make it so it can match with a x number of people or lines.

Thanks in advance.

Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:44 am

Firstly, don't use * when you mean %w. That trigger is going to take a long time to match. And are you always sure they're going to have that many enemies?

Secondly, see if there's an option to let you turn off server-side word wrapping. Some of the IRE MUDs let you do it and some don't - you normally need to set the line length preference to 0.

Newbie Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 4

In this case, setting the length to 0 is not an option, so i have to rely on a few lines.

It's not a huge amount of words, it would be around 10 to 30 enemies. At the most the trigger would have three lines.

I assume i could use a #T- class on prompt, but i still don't know how to capture every single enemy and add them to a string list.

Help is appreciated, thank you.

Adept Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 299