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Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Pattern:

Yitachi's shocking bite <<< ERADICATES >>> a viper fish!

Trigger...

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

You must have hit enter after ERADICATES because it wraps to the next line. It shouldn't wrap there, which is why it isn't matching.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Doh!

Edit:

hrmm... not showing up as that in notepad. I dont know why it did on here.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

Notepad is funky, which is why you should use a better editor or maximize notepad and turn off word wrapping to check.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Word wrapping isn't on, I made sure. Smile

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

second try:

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

third...

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

It's wrapping here because that's the last space before a "word" (collection of characters with no spaces) that would go past the end of the line. Why it's actually wrapping inside code tags, I've no clue.

The reason why it's not matching is because the + needs to go outside the bracket right at the beginning
^([\w'+])
should be
^([\w']+)
and also there's an extraneous ) at the very end
[!\.])}
should be
[!\.]}
and finally, although this isn't causing errors but should be fixed anyway, you don't need to escape the . character inside a character set, so
[!\.]
should be
[!.]

Several of these have been pointed out to you already, I can only say again that you need to slow down and take things one step at a time, with lots and lots of attention to details.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Hrmm... thanks.

Now I just need to find a way to capture names, not everything else.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Oh! I know... how do I make it not fire on a certain word... so like

(.+) but not "you" which would imply that the target is fighting a different mob, not myself and cannot be the "enemy" mob.

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:46 pm

[^you] isnt it?

I was close

{^string} do not match the specified string

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Am testing it out. Thanks.

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 9:20 pm

{^string} works by putting in a negative lookahead and a negative lookbehind, but you should, in most circumstances, be able to get away with just the lookahead, if you're using a regex.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

hrmmm... why does the regex site say [^word]

I checked because:

Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 11:56 pm

It doesn't say [^word], it says [^range]. [^hax] is the opposite of [hax]. [hax] means "match h, a, or x" - [^hax] means "match anything but h, a and x". So while [^you]+ would work to exclude the word "you", it would also exclude any other option containing y, o, or u, which isn't what you want. So for this, you use a negative lookahead, for which I think the syntax is (?!you), but don't quote me on that. Lookaheads are zero-width (if you take them out, the remaining regex still has to match the line), but whatever regex is between the (?! and the ) is applied to the characters that come after that point. If a normal lookahead matches, it's counted as a match, and if it doesn't, the result's rejected. Since this is a negative lookahead, the line is rejected if the regex in the lookahead matches, and accepted if the lookahead doesn't match. So (?!you)(.*) would mean "look ahead and see if the next word is "you". If it is, reject. If it's not, capture it".

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

So it has to go before the capture?

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:49 am

Well, yeah, since it's a lookahead. You could put it after, but you'd have to use a lookbehind.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

I just posted the pattern I'm using.

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:58 am

Yeah, that should be it. Quick test sample to show the lookahead at work:

#regex {test: (?!your)\w+} {#say lolz}
#say test: something
#say test: your

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

Yeah, it worked. Unfortunately also need to add something for the possibility of preceeding text for watching gladiator matches.

Think I'll work on the damage type stringlist first though. Any links would be lovely.

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:44 am

Well, if you sometimes want to have the "you" in there, remove the lookahead and do some post-processing with #if - check if %1 is "you", and check a variable to see if you're watching gladiators, and go from there.

Wizard Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 1547

The you is already covered by a separate trigger, the thought being that I will have separate damage counts for different things. I've yet to figure out how to do it if I have more than one pet or more than one ally fighting with me.