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Posted by

Selyra (2 posts)

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Mon 20 Jan 2014 08:20 PM (UTC)

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I play a game where certain actions have a chance of rewarding 'salvage' of five different types: Mechanical, electronic, energy, edible, and chemical. Tasks have different messages displaying how much of what you get, so I figured it would be useful to monitor my salvage gain easier. I don't want to highlight the entire line one color, so I used highlight word, but I would appreciate a method of reading any number. For example, the first message I'm trying to highlight is 'You manage to secure X Chemical salvage'. The X could be any number ranging from 1-100, but using \byou manage to secure * chemical salvage\b doesn't seem to highlight the message at all when the * value is any number. Is there a trick I can use that will highlight messages despite any number of salvage I receive? Or do I have to add a trigger for each and every number possibility?

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Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (22,987 posts)

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Reply #1 on Tue 21 Jan 2014 10:25 AM (UTC)

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Can you post your trigger please?

For advice on how to copy aliases, timers or triggers from within MUSHclient, and paste them into a forum message, please see Copying XML.

Also post the exact message you get from the MUD (an example of it).

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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Posted by Selyra (2 posts) bio

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Reply #2 on Tue 21 Jan 2014 05:18 PM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 21 Jan 2014 11:06 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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Trigger:


<triggers>
  <trigger
   custom_colour="17"
   enabled="y"
   group="Highlighted Words"
   ignore_case="y"
   keep_evaluating="y"
   match="\bYou manage to secure * Chemical salvage\b"
   regexp="y"
   repeat="y"
   sequence="90"
   other_text_colour="yellowgreen"
  >
  </trigger>
</triggers>

An example was present in my first post, but here it is again:


You manage to secure 8 Chemical salvage.

[EDIT] Code tags added.

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (22,987 posts) bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #3 on Tue 21 Jan 2014 11:08 PM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 21 Jan 2014 11:09 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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You manage to secure * Chemical salvage

OK, with regular expressions a wildcard is not * but <something>*.

In other words, the * means "zero or more of the preceding thing" which in this case is a space.

So you want one or more digits, eg.


You manage to secure [0-9]+ Chemical salvage

or:


You manage to secure \d+ Chemical salvage

Regular expressions

Regular expressions (as used in triggers and aliases) are documented on the Regular expression tips forum page.
Also see how Lua string matching patterns work, as documented on the Lua string.find page.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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