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| Posted by
| Meredin
(13 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Wed 25 Jan 2006 01:08 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| I know there are lots of helpfiles about this, but none have been able to answer my question yet.
I'm sure it's only a horrible design that has led me to my problem, but occasionaly I run myself into a never ending loop that goes like this:
You come out of your trance.
trance
You enter a peaceful trance, collecting mana from the cosmos.
You come out of your trance.
trance
You enter a peaceful trance, collecting mana from the cosmos.
The problem is, that trance is sent to output from my trigger whenever I come out of my trance, the loop occurs if I am already trancing and then the trigger hits, which happens less than once a day, but still it happens and nothing stops it. This occurs because if I am alraedy trancing, and I send trance, it says taht I come out of my trance... Well you see why it is a never ending loop... Anyways... trance is only an output, but it echos... I ahve tried using the above three lines (cosmos is not it's own line) and I have also tried without using trance, triggering just off the first two lines. Neither works...
Here's the trigger I've been trying...
<triggers>
<trigger
enabled="y"
group="Multi Line"
ignore_case="y"
lines_to_match="3"
keep_evaluating="y"
match="You come out of your trance\.\ntrance\nYou collapse into a deep sleep\.\Z"
multi_line="y"
regexp="y"
send_to="2"
sequence="100"
>
<send>sleep
wake
look
look
trance</send>
</trigger>
</triggers>
I have tried this trigger inserting a carrot at the beginning of the trigger, as in some of the examples, and have also tried putting the extra escape sequence before the \Z, as in some of the other problems people have ran into, and of course I have tried donig both of these at the same time. Nothign I have yet tried will make this trigger hit when the above three lines show up on my screen, and I think it has something to do with trance being an input that is echoed. Anyways, hope someone can help!! Thanks!! | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,165 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #1 on Wed 25 Jan 2006 04:05 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| You are right in guessing your problem is partly that the line "trance" is input and not sent from the MUD.
As is documented for triggers, they match on what arrives from the MUD, including multi-line ones. Any input you happen to sandwich inbetween those lines is not tested.
A method of stopping this loop you describe would be to simply detect the time in your trigger script, and code in such a way that you don't end more than one "trance" command in (say) 10 seconds.
BTW - the thing you put at the start of the line is a carat - a carrot is what rabbits eat. :) |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| David Berthiaume
(202 posts) Bio
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| Date
| Reply #2 on Thu 26 Jan 2006 01:19 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| Nick, that was so cute. Carrot... Carat...
Made me laugh so hard. | | Top |
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