Zugg Software :: View topic - SOLVED: Capturing from a paragraph and splitting it into a database variable

Novice Joined: 15 Jul 2010 Posts: 39 Location: USA

I am having trouble finding a way to split out this paragraph:

In the green fleece satchel you see some fresh stems of thistleweed (x62), some fresh bitterleaf (x17), some deep purple thornberries (x18), a package (closed), some mustard seeds (x12), some sprigs of rosemary (x15), some mint leaves (x9), some wild onions (x6), some fresh yellow-green bitemoss (x2), some fresh red-tinged deep green bloodwort (x2), some emberberries (x3), some fresh cuttings of lifevine (x3) and some fresh sprigs of bloodstem (x2).

What I was hoping to do was to split the various plants into a variable, whether having 1 variable for each plant type, but more preferably a database variable SatchelDB with a key for each plant and a value of each amount.
I had tried doing a trigger:
some fresh %1 ~(x%2~)

But that simply captures every plant up until the final () set in the paragraph and it assigns a key as:
stems of thistleweed (x62), some fresh bitterleaf (x17), some deep purple thornberries (x18), a package (closed), some mustard seeds (x12), some sprigs of rosemary (x15), some mint leaves (x9), some wild onions (x6), some fresh yellow-green bitemoss (x2), some fresh red-tinged deep green bloodwort (x2), some emberberries (x3), some fresh cuttings of lifevine (x3) and some fresh sprigs of bloodstem (x

with a value of 2.

Not very helpful, I am sure there must be a better way to sort this out?

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I didn't know whether the mud sent you the paragraph in multiple lines or all at once. I also didn't have any examples of a single plant to work with. Your closed package gives me some idea what it might look like, but in order to capture properly a list of names to match against would be needed. Also if you store things in multiple bags then you will likely want to accumulate a total for all your bags instead of starting new each time. This at least gives you a starting point.

Novice Joined: 15 Jul 2010 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Well, sadly this coding does go way over my coding experience head, but the good news is it does work exactly the way I wanted it to. As for how the information is received from the MUD it would look like this:

NOTE: EsAvd> is the MUD prompt

EsAvd>
In the green fleece satchel you see some fresh stems of thistleweed (x62), some fresh bitterleaf (x17), some deep purple thornberries (x18), some mustard seeds (x12), some sprigs of rosemary (x15), some mint leaves (x9), some wild onions (x6), some fresh yellow-green bitemoss (x2), some emberberries (x3), some fresh cuttings of lifevine (x3), some fresh sprigs of bloodstem (x2), some fresh mountain bloom, a package (closed) and a detailed pine monk carving (x2).
There is plenty of room left in the green fleece satchel.

EsAvd>

As for a single plant:
You are holding some fresh bitterleaf in your left hand.
or
You are holding some mint leaves in your left hand.

I have absolutely no idea how to read this line or have any idea what exactly it is really doing either:
Plants=%subregex(@Plants,"(?:some ((?:\w+ ?)*) \(x(\d+)\)|[^,\.]+)(?:(, | and )|\.)","(?(1)\1=\2(?(3)\|))")

and lastly as for multiple bags, yes I have a 'pouch' a 'satchel' and a 'backpack' that would be nice to check them all. They would have the same syntax of:
"In the <color> <material> <pouch/satchel/backpack> you see: <inventory list as exampled above with the satchel>'

Thanks for the help!

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Added recognition for other bags to the pattern. Changed parsing pattern to support singular plants. Corrected parsing pattern so last item would not be accidentally eaten. Added processing to accumulate a total from multiple bags. It looks like you don't need the multiline capturing, but I saw no reason to strip it out. You will still have to manually clear the accumulation variable, and you will have to issue whatever commands to inventory each bag.