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RapidRunner
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Joined: 18 Oct 2003
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:10 pm   

Triggers with Zmud
 
Is it normal for a trigger to malfunction if you use like..

a piece of silk (7)
I had a trigger like that and it'd just keep triggering on the a piece of silk partion of it.. it wasen't doing what i wanted it too so i had to go to mushclient to do this, but mushclient has color issues i hate lol
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LightBulb
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:50 pm   
 
No, it's not normal for properly written triggers to malfunction. However, it's quite normal for triggers to provide unanticipated results when you don't account for special characters which you intend as literal characters.

quote:
To save any part of the pattern to the %1..%99 parameters, enclose the part of the parameter in parenthesis.


a piece of silk (7)
matches
a piece of silk 7
with %1 = 7.

a piece of silk ~(7~)
matches
a piece of silk (7)
with no numbered parameters.
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