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Beginner Joined: 26 Jan 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Norway

i made a trigger like this

#trigger %1's wounds start to bleed.
#if (%1=@variable1) {dothis}
#if (%1=@variable2) {dothat}
#if (%1=@variable3) {dothis instead}

what happened was that regardless of wether %1 matched a variable, all if tests reported TRUE and ran their dothis dothat and dothis instead.

Wich wasnt exactly what i planned....

Ideas?

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

You should be using %w rather than %1 to match a name.

Try the following
#trigger {(%w)'s wounds start to bleed.} {#if (%1=@variable1) {dothis};#if (%1=@variable2) {dothat};#if (%1=@variable3) {dothis instead}}

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

What did it match on? ZMud generally doesn't verify the variable contents before doing the evaluation, so without quotes it will only use the 1-word value adjacent to the comparison sign (in this case, =):

Ted Kennedy = @President evalatuates to either Ted 0 (the word Kennedy is not contained in @President) or Ted 1 (the word Kennedy is contained in @President). Since "Ted 0" nor "Ted 1" = 0, the whole thing always evaluates to True.

Beginner Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Australia

If only 1 of the if statements should come true, you could nest them in some sort of order, such as ..

#trigger {(%w)'s wounds start to bleed. } {#if (%1=@variable1) {dothis} {#if (%1=@variable2) {dothat} {#if (%1=@variable3) {dothis instead} {#noop} }}}

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

What Matt is saying is that you need to put some kind of delimiter, such as double-quotes, around %1 in the #IF conditions. Otherwise, if %1 is longer than one word (contains spaces) then your #IF conditions will always evaluate to true and all the commands will be done. Since you used %1 in the pattern, which is the equivalent of *, your pattern can and will match any number of words.