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Posted by Glodan (4 posts) bio

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Tue 11 Mar 2014 03:13 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 11 Mar 2014 03:14 AM (UTC) by Glodan

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I'm trying to do highlight a set of words I have stored in a variable, but only highlight those words when they are situated close to specific other words/characters such as:

pets = cat|dog|fish

Example source:

Quote:

Pet: cat
catnip
[ooc] example says, "Just gave my cat some tunafish, he loves it!"

My desired match/result:

Quote:

Pet: cat
catnip
[ooc] example says, "Just gave my cat some tunafish, he loves it!"

What I've been getting:

Quote:

Pet: cat
catnip
[ooc] example says, "Just gave my cat some tunafish, he loves it!"

I've been experimenting with different 'match' criteria such as:


\b@!pets\b

^Pet: @!pets\s*

I used the inbuilt hightlight text trigger generation and set it to variables and unticked ignore case.


<triggers>
  <trigger
   custom_colour="11"
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   keep_evaluating="y"
   make_underline="y"
   match="\b@!pets\b"
   regexp="y"
   repeat="y"
   sequence="90"
  >
  </trigger>
</triggers>

But I'm just not having any luck, could anyone tell me where abouts I'm going wrong ?

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (22,982 posts) bio Forum Administrator

Date Reply #1 on Tue 11 Mar 2014 11:20 AM (UTC)

Message

Since you are matching alternatives put them in brackets. Try this:


<triggers>
  <trigger
   custom_colour="11"
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   keep_evaluating="y"
   make_underline="y"
   match="\b(@!pets)\b"
   regexp="y"
   repeat="y"
   sequence="90"
  >
  </trigger>
</triggers>

- Nick Gammon

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

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