I wonder if anyone has already done what I'm looking for. Right now, I use predefined aliases for my venoms and I have quite a few of them. But I'm interested in something a little more flexible.

So I got it set up to where if I do

V A C

It envenoms with Aconite and Curare

and if I do

V C A

It envenoms with Curare, and then Aconite.

The problem I'm having is I want no spaces, and if I do this in the actual alias line

v%1%2

ZMud has no idea what I'm trying to do when I input vac, vca

According to the manual, it says you can use ? to denote a single character. However, it doesn't seem to work. v?? in the alias, and in game vac, vca, there's no go.

Any ideas on how to match a single alphabet character?

Why Don't you just make variables like @leftwield and @rightwield with your weapons in them reflexed to set when you wield. Then simple aliases like #alias vac envenom @leftwield with aconite;envenom @rightwield with curare

That's what I have. I have a couple dozen of them. Alas, I keep thinking up stuff on the spur of the moment to do that I don't have in my system. So what I'd like to do is have a backup system that lets me customize in an instant, rather than having to write another alias.

You seem bored.

Make an onimput trigger with the pattern v(\w)?(\w)?

That will do what you want easily.

I find buttons are so much easier. I've got two sets one for my axes and one for my rapiers. I find it is much easier to envenom that way rather than how I used to do it with aliases. plus I can envenom while I hit the ol' DSL button.

If you don't mind having just one space, you can set it up so V AC and V CA would work. Just set it to check the %begins and %ends of %1. Without using oninput triggers, that's the best I can come up with.

Solution would be to create a "command input" trigger. As your pattern to match use: v(\w)(\w)

In your code #gag the original command (vac, etc) and do whatever you want with the %1 and %2 variables. Doing it with a command input trigger is much more flexible in this case than an alias because with an alias you'd need to create an alias for every possible combination.

So it'd be

#alias {v(/w)(/w)} {#if {%1="a"} {envenom @wield1 with aconite} {#if {%1="c"} {envenom @wield1 with curare} {#if {%2="a"} {envenom @wield2 with aconite} {#if {%2="c"} {envenom @wield2 with curare}

Something along those lines?

EDIT: Doin' something wrong.

Oninput trigger, not alias.

Create a trigger and on one of the tabs choose 'command input' as the trigger type.

You did three things wrong there, possibly four. First, it's a trigger, not an alias. It has the "onimput" option so it triggers off the command line instead of text from the MUD. Second, you got your slashes wrong. They should be forward slashes '\' not backslashes '/'. Third, if you use the trigger verbatim the way I posted it, it needs to be a regex trigger. Now, the possible fourth thing you did wrong is use if statements. A much easier way would be to use a database variable, say @venoms, where @venoms.a == aconite, and @venoms.c == curare. Then, you could just have two commands. evenom @wield1 with @venoms.%1, and envenom @wield2 with @venoms.%2. That's the easiest way I can think of doing it, since all you need to do is make one database variable, instead of a dozen or more #if statements.

That's the second time you've said that. It's oninput, not onimput.

well, *cough* that's what happens when I post late at night when I haven't had a day off in two weeks *shame* I'll go crawl in a corner and read a dictionary now..

What about something like this?

http://forums.achaea.com/index.php?showtop...amp;hl=deadeye#

Easy enough to modify so instead of STU it was aco (or just 'A')

Bah, Caelan beat me to it. I used something similar to what I suggested in that thread. Only difference was venoms and added in a variable for what I was wielding. It was something like this:


The variables @wielding.left and @wielding.right would have the number of what I was wielding in the corresponding hand. You would want to use the number because it would just envenom the first rapier, scimitar, etc. you were wielding with both venoms if you were wielding two of the same weapons. The variable @venoms was a datarecord type variable with the short name of the venom in the left-hand column and the actual long name of the venom in the right-hand column. Worked great for those on the fly changes you are looking for. Also, I'd put it in another alias "dsl" where I could do dsl aco cur. It would envenom with aconite and curare and dsl @target. Hope it helps.

Trevize, if you recognize the variables, I did get them from your weaponry script.

@Xandeus, Merulac
Aha. I see what you're saying. Okay. Almost there.

I have one problem left and this can be considered a success

It is a one-handed weapon.
Damage: 130 To-hit: 140 Speed: 192
A gleaming scimitar has the following venoms or magical effects on it:
7 magical enhancements.
1) curare
2) aconite
4269h, 4228m, 19030e, 19030w exdb-[ck]-
It is a one-handed weapon.
Damage: 120 To-hit: 147 Speed: 176
A gleaming scimitar has the following venoms or magical effects on it:
1) aconite
2) aconite
3) curare
4) curare

@wield2 is applying whatever venom I input twice. Here is the exact code.

v(\w)(\w)

(Perl Regular Expression box is checked, and under Options, Type, Command Input is selected)

#if {%1="a"} {envenom @wield1 with aconite} {#if {%1="c"} {envenom @wield1 with curare}}
#if {%2="a"} {envenom @wield2 with aconite} {#if {%2="c"} {envenom @wield2 with curare}}

EDIT: Both v(\w)?(\w)? and v(\w)(\w) have that same issue.

EDIT: And I use IF statements because I don't know how to work with databases.

OnInput triggers are going to make you hate life.

I'm still stunned people are perfectly fine with 'vac' but not 'v ac.'

v ac envenomed with aconite and did nothing for the other sword.

v a c worked peachy. Worst comes to worst, I may end up doing that instead. But I'd like it to work this way, because I instinctively do that anyway.

I've never had any particular problem with oninput triggers. They have their applications...

The reason why your alias didn't work is because your %1 would be "ac". You'd then need to use a function to strip off the letters one by one.

Anyway this is where you need to break-out your #say statements to find out exactly why you are doing what.

Try modifying it like this:
#say 1) %1 2) %2
#if {%1="a"} {#say First Weapon/First Param; envenom @wield1 with aconite} {#if {%1="c"} {#say First Weapon/Second Param; envenom @wield1 with curare}}
#if {%2="a"} {#say Second Weapon/First Param; envenom @wield2 with aconite} {#if {%2="c"} {#say Second Weapon/Second Param; envenom @wield2 with curare}}

Now you should be able to see more clearly what is going on. If you give me what it prints out I'll probably be able to tell you what's going on.

EDIT: Both v(\w)?(\w)? and v(\w)(\w) have that same issue.
You'd only need the "?" if you want to match on "v" and "va" and "vac". It means it matches if it is there or not.

EDIT: And I use IF statements because I don't know how to work with databases.
Here's how to use the DB variables:

Done one time:
#addkey venomlookup a aconite
#addkey venomlookup c curare

Done in the code:
envenom @wield1 with %db(@venomlookup, %1)
envenom @wield2 with %db(@venomlookup, %2)

And That's The Game!

Thanks to everyone that helped. That last quick intro on databases sealed it. Merulac is quite correct, that's a lot easier than writing an if statement for each venom.

I haven't ever had any problems with oninput triggers myself. I don't have that many though, and I'm not a combattant and therefore not so often in really spammy situations. There's just some things you can't do as easily with aliases. One has been mentioned in this thread, another one would be to use them in conjunction with trigger states.

Glad it worked for you... and here's hoping I'm not at the receiving end of your venoms anytime soon.

Oh and a word to the paranoid you might want to consider doing some input checking to make sure a "vav" or some such error doesn't try to slip in on a typing mistake. You could actually do that in the regular expression itself by using v([ac])([ac])

To elaborate, anything in square brackets is a character class, which means anything inside of it is allowed. [abcdef] would allow a, b, c, d, e, and believe it or not, f. Just include only the letters you want to check.

I love regular expressions.

That just means there was a problem with the alias code. The one I threw up here I wrote in two minutes while at work, so there's likely a syntax error in it somewhere.

Yeah, I'm no coder. Adding things to my system can be real touch and go. I do my best to stick to what I know, but from time to time I have some trouble. It's not that I have something against the spacebar. It's that I've been doing it this way for 2 RL years. Suddenly throwing in spaces is gonna trip me up some.

I kinda skipped over most of the posts on this page, because I'm a bit tired today, but I'd like to point something out. Be careful with the + and * matching options. + will force it to match one or more times, and * will force it to match 0 or more times, but they exhibit something called "greedy matching", in that they will try to match as many as they possibly can. This can cause unexpected problems. The easy way to fix this is to use "lazy matching". Basically, instead of using v(\w)(\w), or v(\w+)(\w+), a better way would be v(\w+?)(\w+?) What this makes the regex engine do is match the \w character set just once, and then move on to the next element. This way, instead of matching as many characters as it can, it matches only one.

Merulac, v(\w)(\w) == v(\w+?)(\w+?) for Metzger's purposes.

Actually, if you want to do that, the best way is v([abcdef]{1})([abcdef]{1}) where abcdef is a list of the letters you'll accept. What you're saying with +? is match all you can non-greedy, where as {1} says match one.

Bringing up old post here. I read this thread but I am totally new to mush and scripting period so I still can't really understand it. I am just looking for how to do a alias like vac (envenom weapon1 aconite envenom weapon2 curare) but be able to use that same alias v(\w)(\w) with the database look up for each venom.

I don't know why I posted this.
[abcdef]{1} is the same as [abcdef]