Targetting using an 'Info here' function

I play the MUD Achaea, and the mud has a function called Info Here, that allows you to go IH and get the items / mobs in a room, with their name and specific number. An Example is

"shrine52858" a shrine of Ourania
"grate56283" a sewer grate
"totem153509" a runic totem
"sigil225276" a monolith sigil
"dracolich107415" a skeletal dracolich
"virago273631" a fierce virago
"virago264894" a fierce virago
"tsalmaveth70077" a mounted tsalmaveth
"virago217859" a fierce virago
"virago177770" a fierce virago
"snake173997" a green eyelash viper
"box88259" a comical jack-in-the-box
"snake295309" a green eyelash viper
Number of objects: 13

Now, I'd like to see about getting a targetting system that would grab preset names and random numbers, and target them as they show up, while ignoring what I don't need. For example, if there's an IH like:

"totem102020" a runic totem
"mingruk7760" a burly mingruk slave
"gnoll10102" a formidable gnoll guard

I want it to ignore the totem, target the mingruk, and switch the target to gnoll on the message:

You have slain a burly mingruk slave, retrieving the corpse.

That line would show up after every kill, so the slain object could be replaced with a wildcard.

I've seen a script written to do this for zMud, and I'd willingly take that script, and re qrite it to work in MUSHclient, but well... I don't rightly know how. Basically, I'd have it use IH (gagged of course) when I enter a room (as long as the plugin is enabled, I don't want to do it all over the place, such as walking through the forests, that'd be needless)and target based on a preset list of targetables, and ignore based on a list of ignoreable things.

Can you give a bit more detail? Like the IH function, does it start with a line that could be the basis for starting gagging?

How do you target things? eg. maybe "target "mingruk7760""

How would you decide what to attack? eg. a list of things like "mingruk", "gnoll" etc.?

You don't really need a list of things to attack AND a list of things to ignore do you? Either you attack everything that is not on the ignore list, or you attack only things on the attack list.

The info here doesn't start with any specific lines, it simply lists the items in the room, I *think* it does so in the order they came to be in the room. the only thing that comes with every info here is the alias used to bring it up (as I said, IH, so it's not one that I made)

I target using something I found here actually, just an alias t * that sends %1 to a variable of target. All my attacks are directed @target. If I want to kill a mingruk, I t mingruk and attack it until it's dead, then switch targets as needed.

I suppose I don't need a list of things to ignore, as long as it were to only attack what was on an allowable list, because sometimes in a room there are things I can attack, and things I can't (because they'd lay me out). Also, I don't have, nor will I ever have a group attack, so it'd have to be able to keep the targets seperate.

Sorry to bump this, but has anyone anymore ideas on this subject?

I don't really want to write the script for you, but I would be trying to make a trigger to match the general line, something like:

"*" a *

And then when that matches have a script that targets the first one that matches your list. I have done a post recently on Lua's find command, but if you want to use VBscript there are heaps of posts about doing scripts here too.