Zugg Software :: View topic - Capturing the prompt and room description

Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 6 Location: USA

I'm working on part of this script. The function it should perform is to capture the text after a flee command and display using the #show command. Here's the code.

#KEY DIV {flee;#VAR captTxt "";#T+ textCapture};
#CLASS {textCapture} {disable};
#TRIGGER {^(*)$} {captTxt = %additem( %1, @captTxt)};
#TRIGGER {^~[ obvious exits: * ~]$} {#T- textCapture;#FORALL @captTxt {#SHOW %i}};
#CLASS 0

When I triggered the script by fleeing, %additem() evaluates any comma in the text captured. Then I tried capturing each line and concatenating them, same thing happened. Then I wrapped %1 with expand characters "<>", but nothing changed.

Is there any way I can get around the comma problem? I thought about capturing the text between the commas. But I can't figure out the expression for the pattern to match. :(

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

When using %1 in functions or commands it is best to encapsulate it with "quotes" or {braces} respectively. So all you should have to do is change it thusly:
%additem( "%1", @captTxt)}

Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 6 Location: USA

Yup. It worked as predicted now. Thanks.

Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 6 Location: USA

While we are at it, is there any other way to capture the text using a different trigger pattern? Any way to match the phrases between the commas? A difficulty to achieve this I've faced is that the trigger reads line by line. So if I use the pattern (*),, and a line does not have a comma, it does not capture the text. Any way to fix it?

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

As near as I can tell, you are just capturing the entire room description and then displaying it with #SHOW. The easiest way to do this would be to just turn off gagging and let the MUD's original room description come through.

LightBulb
Advanced Member

Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2002 Posts: 6 Location: USA

Yeah. That's another solution to the problem as well. So now I've successfully captured text from the MUD using this script. Next I want to isolate the room description to a new variable, so I can use the description to match the room in the map database. What this would do is, after I flee, I am able to locate where I fled to without reloading the room.

Before doing that though, I used the #SHOW command and tested whether the room description has been successfully filtered. However it seems it did not catch either the prompt or the room description. Here's the code. Any idea what went wrong?

#KEY DIV {flee;#VAR captTxt "";#T+ RoomTracer}
#CLASS {RoomTracer} {disable}
#TRIGGER {^(*)$} {captTxt = %additem( "%1", @captTxt)}
#TRIGGER {^~[ obvious exits: * ]$}
{#T- RoomTracer;#FORALL @captTxt {#IF (%i =~ "(? HP:%w MV:%w >)") {prompt = %1}};newList = %delete( @captTxt, 1, %pos( "@prompt", @captTxt));#FORALL @newList {#SHOW %i}}
#CLASS 0

FYI this code does not actually match anything from the map database. I skipped that part to get to the main problem which is, how come the script does not filter the prompt and the room description?