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Posted by Fletchling   Australia  (54 posts)  Bio
Date Tue 08 Aug 2006 12:55 PM (UTC)
Message
Hi ho, I have the following problem. I can do this thing but I want to see an elegant solution, as you'll see my regex's are a bit agricultural.

mud input below;

Level: 3 Shield Mana: 5 Learned: 100% ( 72)
Mental barrier Mana: 5 Learned: 100% (126)


my regex to match this is in this trigger;

<triggers>
<trigger
group="su4"
match="^Level\:\s{1,3}(\d){1,3}(.*)Mana\:\s{1,4}(\d){0,3}\s{3}Learned\:\s{1,3}(\d+)\%\s\(\s{0,2}(\d+)\)$"
name="su4build"
regexp="y"
send_to="12"
sequence="100"
>
<send>ArrayCreate ("su4")
if %4 &gt; 72 then
ArraySet ("su4",(string.lower(Trim("%2"))),"0")
end -- if
</send>
</trigger>
</triggers>


The issue is that it only matches the first line (with shield) and I'd like it to match either case, that being the line that starts with Level: or without Level:, but I'd like to do it properly. The regex expression I've worked just plain looks ugly, I'm sure there's a better way.

This thing is part of my fast spell up script for aardwolf mud and works a treat, but I have to add some spells manually to the array (via an alias) which is fine but My crash test dummy objects to the extra effort, as she should.

As always, thanks for the help.

Fletchling
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Posted by Ked   Russia  (524 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #1 on Tue 08 Aug 2006 01:52 PM (UTC)
Message
This probably isn't any prettier, but it should work:

^(?:Level\:\s+(\d{1,3})\s)?\s*(.*?)\sMana\:\s+(\d{0,3})\s+Learned\:\s+(\d+)\%\s\(\s*(\d+)\)$
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Posted by Fletchling   Australia  (54 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #2 on Wed 09 Aug 2006 10:06 AM (UTC)
Message
Ked, thanks!
That worked first go, nice!

If you ever have any annoying slimes you need killed, just send the word.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,133 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #3 on Wed 09 Aug 2006 10:10 PM (UTC)
Message
In fact, with regular expressions, you can use the "optional thing" syntax on not just letters (eg. [A-Z]{0,1} ) which will match an optional letter in the range A-Z but entire groups, like this:

(blah){0,1}something

This will match 'blahsomething' or just 'something'.


- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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