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Posted by Sgbarter   (6 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Thu 28 Aug 2008 09:36 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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I get these compile errors whenever I am trying to use a trigger that tries to assign multiple words to a variable:

[string "Trigger: "]:1: ')' expected near 'a'

This is the regex I am matching to:
^(.*) tells you \'of (.*) which is in the general area\'$

And the match text is like this:
Questgiver tells you 'of Inside a large tent which is in the general area'

Then in the trigger code it's doing this:
SetVariable ("quest_room", %2)


What am I doing wrong? If I do it correctly, quest_room should == Inside a large tent
But the compile error comes up when the trigger finds a match.
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Posted by Bottomfeeder   (42 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #1 on Thu 28 Aug 2008 10:12 PM (UTC)  [ quote  ]

Amended on Thu 28 Aug 2008 10:15 PM (UTC) by Bottomfeeder

Message
Try using (\w*) or possibly, (.*?) instead of the (.*) in your trigger.
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Posted by WillFa   USA  (517 posts)  [Biography] bio
Date Reply #2 on Fri 29 Aug 2008 02:12 AM (UTC)  [ quote  ]
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SetVariable ("quest_room", "%2")

Quote the %2, otherwise the expansion happens before the compile and the scripting engine ends up looking for 3
variables named Inside, the, tent;

i.e. SetVariable ("quest_room", Inside the room)


instead of one string "Inside the tent"

i.e. SetVariable ("quest_room", "Inside the tent")
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