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Beginner Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Posts: 18

I've been experimenting with capturing multiline text with cmud.
And didn't have any good result. Well first I thought it worked but it would only capture the first 2 lines.
So if the chat is longer than two lines it will not be capture everything. So wonder how to fix it?

Here's my script

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

I think you need to specify the id in the #STATE command. Give your trigger an id, and use that ID as the first argument of #STATE.

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:42 pm

I would also recommend looking into using the Loop Lines or the Loop Pattern Trigger Types.

[Edit] i just tried pasting this code into CMUD command line and there was an error that prevent the second trigger state from compiling. That is a CMUD bug and I will post that separately, but after the quick fix, every thing worked fine. At least with the sample text you gave.

Beginner Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Posts: 18

I don't know how to add a ID synax for my above trigger,
but when I went in to the package manager and added ID manually in the trigger and changed the #STATE to #STATE(id_sim). I tried the trigger after that and got error, any idea?

Beginner Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Posts: 18

I tried another approach this time using the match pattern trigger loop

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:06 pm

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

You can do what Taz suggests, but if you want to match a specific number of a specific type of wildcard you will need to use Regex or possibly the %repeat() function (assuming it works in a pattern, it'd be something like %%repeat(" ",11)).

It actually would be pretty swell if Zugg added the full &varname syntax style to &nn so that we could refine nn by the wildcard used (ie, &%d8 would match a fixed-width pattern of 8 numbers instead of continuing on with digits 9 through 13 AND without trying to capture the results to the @8 variable), but I think he previously shot that down as something that can't be translated into regex. At any rate, if %repeat() works in a trigger pattern then it's a moot point.

Beginner Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Posts: 18

I couldn't find any help about &nn, how am I supposed to use that?

didn't work using this, %%repeat(" ",11)),
assuming that you're supposed to but it in the pattern field

EDIT
seems to work now, I just had to remove one %, so it looks like this %repeat(" ",11))
but I still want to know how &nn is used. Any example?

I also wonder if I can add another case to this pattern so it will look for "[Simyarin]" and "> [Simyarin]"

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:53 am

Well &nn you just replace nn with the number of characters you want to match so in this case it would be:

^&11%y

but of course that will still match normal lines that begin with words so is actually no use here. Like Matt said if it could have taken an argument of space that would be cool.

Matt has it spot on though

^%%repeat(" ",11)%x

as the pattern works great.

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:55 am

Your extra end round bracket is the problem, it seems that one % does work but I'm certain the correct method is to double up the %.

Use the pattern above and you'll be fine.

Ignore the &nn in this case it isn't any use.

Beginner Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Posts: 18

ah, didn't notice the extra bracket there.

Anyway I notice now that the trigger still doesn't work 100%
It will capture the chat lines I want, but sometimes it won't.

However if I do chat review of the last chat lines the trigger will then capture it.
So it seems that trigger works somewhat anyway.

Could this be a problem/bug with CMUD?

Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 8:08 pm

Did you definitely use %x as I found %y problematic? Perhaps even miss those out so you only ever match 11 spaces at the start of a line.

Beginner Joined: 23 Oct 2008 Posts: 18

yes I used %x, tried both actually and without also. All produced the fault. Dunno if it's because of the trigger or maybe the buffer vary?

Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:10 pm

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

Is there something to indicate that a particular multiline is finished? For example, a blank line or the prompt? If so, a much better solution is to use a manual condition: