Zugg Software :: View topic - getting rid of brackets in a pattern for setting a target variable has brackets

Apprentice Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 105

here is the current trigger:
Pite moves aggressively towards &target!

Normally, this works fine and I can then use macro buttons to quickly attack the target without typing name, but sometimes there are NPCs with brackets in their names and you cannot attack them when you include the brackets, so I need to get rid of them, while the trigger will still work for normal NPCs without them.

summary:
here's the mud text:
Pite moves aggressively towards the scary mugger (hiding)!

I want it to only capture as @target "scary mugger", not the (hiding) bit. but if say, the pattern was
Pite moves aggressively towards the Triad thug!
I also need that to still work

Any ideas please anyone? I have no clue what to do from here :(

Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:21 pm

#trig {Pite moves aggressively towards ([^~(])*!} {#var target %1}

[^~(] means "any character that's not a bracket"

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

maybe a trim to rid yourself of the inevitable trailing space.
#var target %trim(%1)

Apprentice Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 105

Dharkael I don't understand what that is meant to do? I am not worried about spaces I am worried about the " (hiding)" bit which I need removed

Fang Xianfu you misunderstand I think: I still want to attack the hiding scary mugger, I still want it in the pattern, but I want it to be captured in the @target variable as "scary mugger" instead of "scary mugger (hiding)"

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:14 pm

No, I understood you perfectly, and that's exactly what that trigger does. The &variable syntax is horrible to look at and to use, so I didn't use it in this example - rather, I specified the pattern's captures myself and then put what needed capturing in the variable later.

Seriously, it works. Try it out.

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:16 pm

Well you probably want to change Pite to something like %w so it doesn't just match that person it'll match other people as well as long as they only have one word as a name, although the trigger isn't anchored so that probably doesn't matter.

Anyway I just tested what Fang gave you and it works fine, although it does capture "the" into the variable as well and I don't know if "the scary mugger" will cause you problems.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

If you only want to capture what the actual thing is you can use this.

Apprentice Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 105

ok.... how would I go about making it also exclude small green scorpion, black cat, or black cloud?

to try give you an idea of what i am trying to do here's what i have it as at the moment:
^Pite moves aggressively towards the {^small green scorpion|black cat|black cloud}&target!

with an example of the thing I want to capture being the same as before, and the result I wanting the same as before (I actually want the bit just before mugger, like scary mugger or snarling mugger so I can differentiate if there is more than one being attacked by my group) - I still need the (hiding) bit stripped

those ones with lots of square brackets are regex ones right? i dont really understand those only the zmud ones so far :S so it's hard for me to tell what of the above stuff I actually should use

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:04 pm

#TR {moves aggressively towards (*)!} {
$thisTarget=%replace(%1, " (hiding)", "")
$excludeList="the black cat|a small green scorpion|ect"
#IF (%ismember($thisTarget, $excludeList)) {do nothing} {do something}
}

Apprentice Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 105

thanks shalimar that kind of works, but how do I get it to set a variable from the new bit? when I put target = %1 in the 'do something' bit, it just uses the original unedited captured bit, so "a snarling mugger (hiding)" instead of "a snarling mugger" (for example)

(this is what i did:)
$thisTarget=%replace(%1, " (hiding)", "")
$excludeList="the black cat|a small green scorpion|ect"
#IF (%ismember($thisTarget, $excludeList)) {} {target = %1}

the idea isnt to actualy do an action as such just capture it in a variable so i can push a macro button to attack the named @target

Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:01 pm

Use $thisTarget instead of %1.

Wizard Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 1201

You can set a target to "a snarling mugger"? Weird.