Zugg Software :: View topic - converting a large inventory into a list variable

Wanderer Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 51

I would like to capture all the text following "It Contains:" up to the period, and make it into a single list variable.

A chest made of solid rubber wood.
It contains:
a etched iron greatsword, 27 doritos, a shell, 2 frog teeth, 20 square feet of
tie died cloth, a very smelly sphere, a muddy iron greatsword, a etched iron
greatsword, a muddy iron bastard sword, a etched iron bastard sword, a muddy
iron greatsword, a etched iron greatsword, a muddy iron bastard sword, a etched
iron bastard sword, a muddy iron greatsword, a etched iron greatsword, a
bottle-green glass jug of red giggle juice, a muddy iron bastard sword, a parascope,
73 snaileggs, 11 gutsacks, 5 tropical leather thongs, a somewhat short beaded
rope, a etched iron bastard sword, an etched iron greatsword, a muddy iron
greatsword, a muddy iron greatsword, a etched iron greatsword, a lizardsilk hood,
28 spools of liver thread, an open silted flask, a skin tunic, 9 hunks of funky stuff, a
golden owl tunic, 69 square feet of fresh goldenrod skin.

At this point I have a working trigger that will grab the line immediately following "It Contains:", replace all the commas with a pipe, and remove the period, and assign the list to a string variable. I am just a little confused about how to grab the entire contents of "It Contains:"

Here is what I have so far, which works well as long as the contents are only on the line immediately following "It Contains:"

Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 9:18 am

You need a stated trigger, something like this:

Wanderer Joined: 05 Sep 2008 Posts: 51

it works perfectly...now I just have to understand it. Thanks again shalimar :)

Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2022 4:36 pm

It's a 2 state trigger, only numbering starts at 0.

State 0
Just resets the Variable

State 1
Is of type within, with a param of 1.
This means: check the next one line for this pattern before resetting to state 0.

Adds the current line to the variable.
Then checks to see if the line ends in a period.
-- If it does, it's done and uses the code from your example.
-- If it doesn't, the trigger is told to reset to state 1 so it again checks one line.