Zugg Software :: View topic - Make a trigger non-case sensitive?

Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2001 Posts: 117 Location: Norway

A fellow mudder has made a set of triggers and aliases to follow a fleeing mob. It don't work quite as it should and I now know why - but not quite how to fix it:

You type k mob.
The triggers then capture the prompt while you're fighting, to find out what it should follow when the mob flees:
* HP:Healthy SP:Bursting MV:Full - a small squirrel: Healthy >
This will capture "a small squirrel" into a variable called prey.

The current triggerpattern to follow when the mob flees is
^(*)@prey leaves ({north|east|south|west|up|down}).$

The problem is - putting the (*) there can make you follow any mob. Since "A young buck" as far as I understand can just as easily replace that (*).

What I need is making this work instead:
^@prey leaves ({north|east|south|west|up|down}).$

This requires the trigger not to be case sensitive, or to make the first letter of my @prey alias a big letter (since right now - @prey = a small squirrel , but what I get on screen is:
A small squirrel leaves north. )

Making the trigger specific would also prevent me from following random stuff when @prey = null - which would make the whole thing a lot more usable :)

Thanx!

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

check out the %proper() function.

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5187

^@prey leaves ({north|east|south|west|up|down}).$
Should work just fine for both "A small squirrel" and "a small squirrel" as long as Case Sensitive is unchecked in the options tab of the trigger. In either case a deer leaving would not trigger it when prey is a squirrel. I would recommend the following changes though:
^{a| the |}@prey leaves ({north|east|south|west|up|down}).$
And where you set prey strip the first word with something like this:
#IF (%begins("%x","a ")) {prey=%remove("a ","%x")} {#IF (%begins("%x","the ")) {prey=%remove("the ","%x")} {prey="%x"}
The begins and remove are case sensitive so if your prompt had "The Huge Deadly Mob" then "The" wouldn't be stripped. You could take care of this by working in some lowers to the stripping routine, but until you encounter it just unchecking the case sensitive box should fix you.

Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2001 Posts: 117 Location: Norway

thx :)

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

Triggers, by default, are not case-sensitive, so ^@prey leaves ({north|east|south|west|up|down}).$ should work the way you want without modification.

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