Mudlet: match repeatedly on same line and pass matches as arguments?

Fusco

I'm wanting to make a trigger that will fire on qw and load all the names into a table. The regex for it is (\w+)\,\s and I set it to match all occurrences in a line. I then tried having it execute table.insert(myTable, matches[2]) but this only give me a table with 1 element. How do I make it so that it will run table.insert() for each match?

Klendathu

Easiest thing to do is grab matches[1], which is the entire string, then parse that into the table, rather than trying to directly parse the output:

splitAtComma = function(str)
	myTable = {}
	str = tostring(str:gsub(",",""))
	if string.find(str," ") then
		for word in string.gmatch(str, "%a+") do
			table.insert(myTable,word)
		end
	end
end

Using the code above, you can have your trigger line with the following in the white box:

splitAtComma(matches[1])

Simples!

Fusco

I'm the blacksmith that goes to the store for tongs when I can make my own. Thanks!

Vadimuses

You can also use the 'match all' option in the trigger, then all matches will be stored in the matches table.

Jarrod

Klendathu said:

Easiest thing to do is grab matches[1], which is the entire string, then parse that into the table, rather than trying to directly parse the output:

splitAtComma = function(str)
	myTable = {}
	str = tostring(str:gsub(",",""))
	if string.find(str," ") then
		for word in string.gmatch(str, "%a+") do
			table.insert(myTable,word)
		end
	end
end

Using the code above, you can have your trigger line with the following in the white box:

splitAtComma(matches[1])

Simples!

Why wouldn't you just want to:

myTable = string.split(matches[1], ", ")

? Then have a check to replace the last entry of "and <name>" with just name.