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Recognizing Variables

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Posted by Strex   (2 posts)  Bio
Date Wed 16 Aug 2017 07:19 AM (UTC)
Message
Hello MUSHers!

So I'm having an issue.
What I'm trying to do is set a trigger to recognize a variable. Only way I can think is by using wildcards in the trigger.
(using picking herbs as an example)

Usually wildcards are used like this:

Trigger:

There are sixty batches of * here.

Send:

Send ("pick %1")

I want it to, rather than picking %1, pick a variable. So say I have a variable @target set to "witan". I want the trigger to see "@target" (in this case "witan")

So the output would be:

There are sixty batches of witan here.

Trigger would be:

There are sixty batches of * here.

And because the target is "witan", it would trigger. And if the target was not witan, it doesn't trigger.

Basically what I want is to script it so that the client recognizes "*" as "@target" or in this example "witan".

I'm not sure if it's possible or if there is another function I need to use. I've looked into it on the MUSHclient website, but know luck as I don't know much of the Lua jargon.

I don't know if any of that makes sense to you guys, but any help would be amazing.

Thanks,
Strex
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Wed 16 Aug 2017 08:29 PM (UTC)

Amended on Wed 16 Aug 2017 08:30 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

Message
That's pretty easy. You check "expand variables". You also need to make it a regexp so you can force the variable to be a capture. Like this:


<triggers>
  <trigger
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   match="^There are sixty batches of (@target) here\.$"
   regexp="y"
   send_to="12"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>Send ("pick %1")</send>
  </trigger>
</triggers>



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Or, more simply, we don't need a wildcard because we know what the variable is. Thus this would do it:


<triggers>
  <trigger
   enabled="y"
   expand_variables="y"
   match="There are sixty batches of @target here."
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>pick @target</send>
  </trigger>
</triggers>

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Strex   (2 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #2 on Sat 19 Aug 2017 03:43 AM (UTC)
Message
Thanks!
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