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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:12 pm

Hey all, playing about with trying to get a few of my more complex scripts working in cmud and ive come up against a problem, not a bug, more to do with my lack of brain power.

Currently, I have a trigger, that grabs the name of a quest mob out of a mudside announcement line (the name is always different), I then take this and make a trigger to turn that name yellow, thus being easier to spot when i perform a scan function.

currently this is the pattern and script:

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

Shouldn't be using %1 in pattern matches, you should use %w, %d, * etc.

Change the match to something like
The * quests 'If you think you know where (*) is, you might be able to find me!'

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:28 pm

hmms.. thanks Guinn changed as suggested, the trigger still creates with the patern %1, rather than the intended contents of %1.

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:52 pm

Oh I see, you have a trigger that creates a trigger. I think Guinn misunderstood.

Firstly, which name do you want to capture? I used a trigger with this pattern:

The ($name1:*) quests 'If you think you know where ($name2:*) is, you might be able to find me!'

and this script:

#trig "see_qmob" {$name1} {#col yellow}

And it works fine. Just change it to $name2 if you wanted the second one captured.

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:01 pm

oooooo that looks great, thanks fang, that works fabulously. i need to learn more about catching variables like that though, its unfamiliar teritory.

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:14 pm

It's pretty simple - you just use the syntax ($localvar:wildcard) and then call them throughout the script like you would with the %nn value. Wildcards are explained here.

Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:16 pm

thanks Fang, really helpful stuff