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Newbie Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Posts: 6 Location: NC

I am trying to make a script to automatically capture lines of text from my game and input it into the Mappers Notes section, the part I am having trouble with is getting it to capture the lines into the variable. I've looked through the Help files to find a solution, but nothing I can find is what I need, though I'm sure there is a way. I know you could do it with zMUD, but I can't remember how. Here is a basic idea of what the opening Text is for Shops:

Item/Price
An oil-soaked torch, a small wood light, for 1 silver, 5 copper.
A fried zakami breast, a small meat foods, for 7 copper.
A fried zakami leg, a small meat foods, for 6 copper.
Some fried zakami nuggets, a small meat foods, for 4 copper.
A small, drinking flask, a small leather drink container, for 1 silver, 5 copper.
A small canteen, a small leather drink container, for 1 silver, 5 copper.

Item/Price is what you'll use for the trigger itself, but what command do you use to capture the text to a variable? I tried #Capture, but it just puts it into the Editor. Each shop will have a varying number of items, so is there a way to make it know how many lines there are? Or should I just use a set 20 lines or something? The same applies to trainers, here is a sample of that.

A wrinkly male gnome will teach the following:
Wands for 1 silver, 5 copper
Ventriloquate for 1 silver, 5 copper
Magic missile for 1 silver, 5 copper
Invis for 9 silver
Fly for 9 silver
Detect invis for 9 silver
Detect hidden for 9 silver
Color spray for 9 silver

Again, I can make the triggers, but capturing the text...thats what I can't figure out...Thanks in advance.

Holy Flame.

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

One common way to do this is to have the first trigger turn on another trigger which does the capturing. This would be a trigger on "*", so it triggers on every line. The problem, as you have realized, is letting the triggers know how many lines to capture. If there is a variable number of lines, the only good way is to create another trigger for the line which /follows/ the text you want to grab, and turns off the capturing trigger. You don't show us what lines come after the text you want, so I can't give you anything specific. If there is a standard line at the end, that would be perfect. Otherwise, you may have to trigger it on the prompt or something like that.

Newbie Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Posts: 6 Location: NC

The end is only signified by a blank line...is it possible to trigger of just a blank line itself? I know there is a wildcard for that...*ponders* I'll try it and see...something else...I did manage to make a trigger that would capture the training text... $(%w) (for) (*) with an var test = {%1 %2 %3}....however, it took a lot of reading and trials to get it working right, but after I got it ALMOST working perfectly, it decided it didn't want to work anymore....not sure if its just cMUD acting up or what...cause I have the same thing that worked before, that won't work now....*sighs* Almost seems as if cMUD decided to say, I'm tired of all this trial and error, leave me alone.. ;) Anyway, any help would be appreciated, will try your suggestiogn. Will post whether or not it works... :D

Holy Flame.

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 3:16 am

^$ will match a blank line.

If you have code, let us see it and we can help you troubleshoot it.

Newbie Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Posts: 6 Location: NC

Ok, here is a rough idea of what I have....

Pattern: (*) will teach the following~:
#T+ TrainList <--to turn on the trigger that will capture text
#CALL %roomcol(,yellow) <--to color current room in mapper to signify has a trainer

Pattern: (*)
#ADDITEM Rm(%roomnum(,)) %1 <--Ok here, I did have a normal variable (RmTrainList) but I noticed that while it put the info into the room notes, after leaving the room, it erased it...thought maybe cause its set to the var RmTrainList so I tried to make a new Stringlist for each room, starting with Rm(roomnum) but it doesn't seem to work....so I'm halfway there, I got it to do what I want, but I can't seem to get it to stay in the notes...

Pattern: $
#T- TrainList
#CALL %roomnote(,@Rm(%roomnum(,)))

Keep in mind this is what I came up with recently....the original just had RmTrainList as the variable, instead of the Rm(%roomnum(,) stuff...

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

Your current code will be making lots of those variables, and you don't seem to be deleting them after you put the data into %roomnotes. When you used @RmTrainList, did you have something to delete the variable or the contents of the variable? If so, that is probably why you saw it delete the data in %roomnotes. Your last trigger should have a pattern of "^$", not "$". As it is, you are copying the data to %roomnotes after every line, not just blank lines. Also, I don't think your attempt at concatenation to create a variable name will work well. And you probably want to turn off the third trigger as well as the second trigger. So, here is my suggestion (not tested):