Wildcard Triggers

Hey,

I want a Trigger that acts on the expression:

JohnDoe tells the group (in common), 'mana'.

Sends: Cast 'give mana' JohnDoe.

I have the following Trigger:
^(\w*) tells the group (in common), 'mana'.*$
To send: cast 'give mana' %1

But it doesn't seem to work, any ideas what I am doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated :)

Thanks

I presume you have checked the "regular expression" box, because you are using "^(\w*)" in the trigger.

In that case, special characters need to be "escaped" or they won't work as you expect. For instance "." is a wildcard, and "( and ")" have special meaning.

Try:


^(\w*) tells the group \(in common\)\, \'mana\'$


You can simplify the process of using regular expressions by entering a simple expression and then clicking the "Convert to Regular Expression" box. That will automatically do the escaping for you. eg.

Enter:


* tells the group (in common), 'mana'


After clicking "Convert to Reg. Exp." you will get:


^(.*?) tells the group \(in common\)\, \'mana\'$


Then you can amend it if you want, for instance by changing ".*" to "\w*".

Thanks Nick,

I tried changing the trigger so it reads:

^(\w*) tells the group \(in common\)\, \'mana\'$

with regular expression ticked. It is set to send:

cast 'give mana' %1

That didn't seem to work for me so I tried to convert it to a regular expression like you showed and sure enough I got:

^(.*?) tells the group \(in common\)\, \'mana\'$

changing the .* to \w, the only difference being the ? instead of * after the \w. The same things are ticked (Regular expression) but again it didn't return anything when I fed the line:

Blah tells the group (in common), 'mana'.

into the client. Sniffle, I'm not sure where to go from here, am I a lost cause? :P

Thanks,

C

Am I the only one noticing the extra . at the end of the output line, that is not being looked for on the trigger line?

(An extra \. before the $)

You are right. When I looked at the regexp I saw ".*" which I assumed was a wildcard match.

If you want the regexp to match on a dot you need to put \. in it, as Magnum said.




No, they can be made to work. :) Set the trigger to colour the line, so at least you can confirm when it matches. Then get the response right.

Hey again,

Thanks very much for your help all! In the end my trigger looked like this:

^(\w*) tells the group \(in common\)\, \'mana\'\.*

Set to send:
cast 'give mana' %1

It works very nicely now ;)

Thanks again for your help,

C