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Parsing quotes in an emote

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Terry USA (87 posts) Bio

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Tue 24 Jun 2008 12:55 AM (UTC)

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I apologize in advance for this post. I'm almost religious about not asking other people to write scripts for them. However, I have no idea how to even begin with parsing in a script.
Anyway, I was trying to figure out a way of parsing quotes ("" and `' if possible :D) in an emote so that the script will colorcode the emote correctly based on if there is speech or not. Unfortunately, after trying for about half an hour and getting nowhere, I decided I'd come to you guys :P Really I only need help figuring out how to parse something, and I can probably figure out the rest :)

The hard part comes in because I don't know beforehand how many quotes there will be. If I knew there would only be one set of quotes per emote, then I'd be able to do it. But I really don't know how many. It's roleplay, not a movie. :)

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,158 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date Reply #1 on Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:27 AM (UTC)

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I'm not sure what you mean by "parsing quotes", perhaps you could give an example.

However you can put quotes in strings by escaping them, like this:


print ('I see Nick\'s cat here')

- Nick Gammon

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

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Posted by

Terry USA (87 posts) Bio

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Reply #2 on Tue 24 Jun 2008 01:43 AM (UTC)

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Something like:
> emote smirks at the man. "Yeah right, John." Adding with a shrug, "I guess that would add to our sales income though." He smirks again, still laughing softly at your comment.

I'm trying to make a script that would colorize all the text between quotes ("Yeah right..." and "I guess...")

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (23,158 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #3 on Tue 24 Jun 2008 03:09 AM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 24 Jun 2008 03:13 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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This is the best I could do. I had hoped to use one large regexp, but couldn't think of a way of doing it. ;)


<triggers>
  <trigger
   enabled="y"
   match="Nick *"
   omit_from_output="y"
   send_to="14"
   sequence="100"
  >
  <send>

do
  local line = "%0"  -- copy matching line into variable
  local i = 1  -- start at column 1
  
  -- customize this!
  local normal_colour = "white"
  local quote_colour = "blue"
  
  -- keep processing the line, looking for quoted sections
  while i &lt; #line do
    
    -- find opening quote
    local quote, _, closing_quote = line:find ([=[(['"])]=], i + 1)
    if not quote then
      break
    end -- no quote found
    
    -- show up to the quote
    ColourTell (normal_colour, "", line:sub (i, quote))
    
    -- find closing quote
    local end_quote = line:find (closing_quote, quote + 1) or #line
    
    -- show quoted stuff in different colour
    ColourTell (quote_colour, "", line:sub (quote + 1, end_quote - 1))

    -- next loop iteration is past the quote    
    i = end_quote
    
  end -- while
  
  -- finish off line
  ColourNote (normal_colour, "", line:sub (i))
end

</send>
  </trigger>
</triggers>

Basically the script loops looking for quoted sections. You will need to adjust the trigger match to whatever works for you, and plug in some more appropriate colours.

- Nick Gammon

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

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Posted by WillFa USA (525 posts) Bio

Date Reply #4 on Sat 26 Jul 2008 10:23 AM (UTC)

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Wouldn't this be Simpler?


foo="Someone says: \"Purple PeanutButter is yummy!\" and you have to laugh as you think \"Idiot.\"."

for q in foo:gmatch("(%b\"\")") do 
   print (q) 
end

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Posted by

Terry USA (87 posts) Bio

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Reply #5 on Mon 28 Jul 2008 09:46 PM (UTC)

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Hmm, when I tried that, all I got was

Quote:
"Purple PeanutButter is yummy!"
"Idiot."

Also, I'm not quite sure how that would even work... You mean I'd have to use some regexp thing to fire through that trigger? I don't quite get what you're doing.

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