Zugg Software :: View topic - using #CW to color a line w/ special characters

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jun 2001 Posts: 198 Location: USA

I have a few triggers to color different communication channels differently. The problem is, when there is one of the special characters in the line, the line doesn't get colored.

#Trig {%w gossips, '*'.}{#CW red}
Someone gossips, 'Blah!'.
with the above trigger, that line would be colored red, but
Someone gossips, 'Blah ###!'.
that line would not.

When testing the pattern, it says it doesn't match, so, what I'm asking is, how do I get the pattern to match so that lines with the special characters DO get colored and the special character remain in the colored line?

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Change the * wildcard to %* which will match special zMUD characters. Using this wildcard in the way you are using it (ie. whatever is matched by it is not used in the script) is safe. However, if you were to use the text matched by it in a script, great care should be taken to prevent players from executing unwanted commands in your zMUD.

Kjata