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Novice Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Australia

What I would like to know is, is it at all possible to somehow create a trigger (using zScript if possible) that uses a string list variable as part of a pattern or can be compared to a string list.

Specifically what I am attempting to do is store a list of the names of enemies in a string list(that bit is easy) and then use a trigger to highlight those names when I check whos online with a QW command.
The Mud in question is MKO but this would apply to any IRE mud or one with similar output.

an example of the output is as follows:

Kinuma, Saiellah, Skyanne, Jessamin, Wyrthe, Drakith, Shadryn, Aurelen, Camenae,
Iaocal, Raki, Alexander, Zjorn, Mara, Vaerom, Meradin, Merou, Aeonex, Luthian,
Larraleigh, Audriana, Akaryu, Markir, Khyvar, Zengor, Grin, Aelryl, Mikkel,
Eldin, Elvearae, Drue, Tyrad, Beligan, Arashi, Lilah, Gryndal, Mos, Omny,
Aranion, Aulle.

Currently i'm using a separate trigger for every enemy name but this is rather cumbersome to update as time goes on

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

I'm working on converting something Larkin did before to work with MKO. The problem is that, for example, they have a triggerable phrase that leads off the enemy list. MKO doesn't.

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Simple version:

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Bleh, I was speaking more of pulling city enemies for highlighting. If you meant personal enemies then adding to your string list is, as you said, easy.

So, to expound on this, this is what you get in MKO for city enemies.

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

hmm, it was the "%1" that was killing the first line for some reason. Also took out it keeping the line with the the number of enemies.

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Well he does say

Novice Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 46 Location: Australia

Thanks everyone for the responses, I probably should have been clearer and said ive already got the stringlist sorted out and just needed some way to trigger off its contents.

gamma_ray's first response seems to have hit the nail on the head for what i was trying to do .. I use his second suggestion as this is more or less for city enemies which will no doubt be quite numerous eventually and it seems to be working fine.

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

Her's. :) Glad I could help.

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

heh, I decided to work some more to mark city members in my list. The problem is, the above highlight trigger doesn't match on whole words only. So, for example, Bakaris is a city enemy. Bak is a citizen. I get "Bak" in one color and "aris" in the other. Any way to make the highlight only if it matches the whole name in the trigger and nothing but the name?

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

The trigger for highlighting city enemies needs to surrounded by %b (or \b if using regex)

#TRIGGER {%b{@City_Enemies}%b} {#CW Red}

or some such

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

I did use \b, what I forgot to use were the parentheses, so it was only associating \b with the beginning of the first name and end of the last name... Bleh. I fixed the patterns in the original post.

Beginner Joined: 27 May 2015 Posts: 10

Sorry for jumping in, or if this should be a new thread. I am at the point of being able to trigger off of a %b{@monsters}%b, but now I would like to extract the exact item in the list that triggered. For example if item 5 triggered, then I would like to use item 5's contents to say "kill @monster(item5)" or what not. Is this possible, and if so, could someone shed some light please? Many thanks!

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 5:59 pm

Better to start a new thread usually, but this is a quick one, wrap it in parenthesis

#TR {%b({@monsters})%b} {kill %1)