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| Posted by
| Selyra
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| Date
| Mon 20 Jan 2014 08:20 PM (UTC) |
| Message
| | 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? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| Reply #1 on Tue 21 Jan 2014 10:25 AM (UTC) |
| Message
| Can you post your trigger please?
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For advice on how to copy aliases, timers or triggers from within MUSHclient, and paste them into a forum message, please see Copying XML.
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Also post the exact message you get from the MUD (an example of it). |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Selyra
(2 posts) Bio
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| Date
| 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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| Message
| 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. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,173 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
| Date
| 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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| Message
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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
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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.
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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