multiline match

bob perfect rested standing N N N Y 0 0
ted perfect rested standing N N N Y 0 0
mark perfect rested standing N N N Y 0 0



this is my trigger below


^\s+(?P<player>Bob|mike|john|ted|reed|ralf|nick|yoshy|nine|ten)\s+(?P<status>dying|bleeding|stunned|awful|(v.bad)|bad|fair|good|(v.good)|perfect)\s+([[:alpha:]]+)\s+([[:alpha:]]+)\s+[[:alpha:]]\s+[[:alpha:]]\s+[[:alpha:]]\s+(?P<here>Y|N)\s+[[:xdigit:]]\s+[[:xdigit:]]$

this works to pick up the line but there are anywhere from 1-10 of these lines and i need the trigger to pick up all of the lines and read them at once!

i want it to reed all as one so my trigger will only do one action not c 'heal' on several people at the same time..

Here's your problem ...

If there can be between 1 and 10 lines, then the trigger must match on one line, right? It doesn't know if more will follow. Therefore it will heal as soon as it gets one.

I think you are better off with single line triggers which merely record each player's status. Then you need to know when the list ends (for example, a prompt line arrives).

Then at this "end of list" marker, you work out which player you want to heal.

Ok, so basicly i collect all that data like you showed me how to before.. could i do this..

Trigger 1.. collects data..
enable heal
Trigger 2 (heal)
disable heal

that works good!
but I cant get anything to match for the newprompt line..
i figured that ^/s$ WOULD WORk but it didnt...
SOoooo....
I figured out an alternitive way of making it go off..
i set a timer to go off at 0.001 sec after i type group.
And...
Would This erase the table incase someone left the group when they needed to get healed?..so it will stop trying to heal them!

statuses = ("nil")

Can you show an example prompt line?

I don't like timers that much, because if they are too quick you don't get all the data, and if they are too slow, it takes too long to heal.



It would be:

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Mark perfect rested fighting Y N N Y 0 0
Ted perfect rested standing N N N Y 0 0
<-----this is where i want the heal trigger to go off at.
603H 112V 68530X 845C [Me:Perfect] [a kender:good] Exits:NW>

You obliterate a kender with your slash.
You annihilates a kender with your slash.

603H 112V 68530X 845C Exits:NW>


I cant seem to trigger it on a blank line. I think you thought i was talking about my status bar. i just relized that i type prompt in mud to change it. but i wanted to trigger something on a blank space right after all the names in the list.
Thanks alot nick.

The code for whitespace is \s not /s. To match an empty line, this should do:


^$


However if it might have spaces, then use:


^\s*$


That allows for zero or more spaces.

Make sure that in File -> Global Preferences -> General that "Regular expressions can match on an empty string" is checked.

Ok thanks alot.. everything is working just like i want it to now i am really getting hooked on this table stuff i am sure i will have more questions soon. thanks!!