Capturing MATCHES on Multiline Triggers

Dochitha

^\[System\]\: Running queued balance command\: SWIFTCURSE (\w+) (.+)$
^You point an imperious finger at \w+.$

Did a multiline trigger and selected the delta to be 1 line. I was trying to capture matches[3] on the first line, the bold one. When I do echo(matches[3]) nothing happens. I am using Mudlet.

How should I capture that?

Antonius

If you're using a multiline trigger, the matches are stored in a different table: multimatches. To access the second group on the first line, you'd want multimatches[1][3].

Dochitha

@Antonius Why are you so smart! Thank you!

Austere

Before you go any further, add stand/wield shield doll to that.  It's going to save you the hassle of doing so later.  I capture my none serverside alias swifts a bit different and will post my method when I am not on a phone, if you want. 

Dochitha

Austere said:

Before you go any further, add stand/wield shield doll to that.  It's going to save you the hassle of doing so later.  I capture my none serverside alias swifts a bit different and will post my method when I am not on a phone, if you want. 

Yes I WANT WANT.

Austere

Sorry about this..I completely forgot I was supposed to do it and no one reminded me. For some strange reason at work today, I remembered it. Better late than never:

^\[System\]\: Running queued balance command\: (.+)$
^You point an imperious finger at \w+.$

cursedraw = multimatches[1][2]
cursedraw = cursedraw:split(" ")

for k,v in pairs(cursedraw) do
   if string.findPattern(cursedraw[k],"swiftcurse") then
      nextcurse = k+2
   end 
   if string.findPattern(cursedraw[k],"blight") then
      nextcurse = k+2
   end   
   if string.findPattern(cursedraw[k],"curse") then
      nextcurse = k+2
   end  
   if string.findPattern(cursedraw[k],"relapse") then
      invoked = k+1
   end 
   if string.findPattern(cursedraw[k],"invoke") then
      invoked = k+2
   end 
   if string.findPattern(cursedraw[k],"imbibe") then
      imbibedraw = k+1
   end
end

Acknu

If you don't mind me asking, what exactly is the code doing?

Amranu

It detects what curse is being sent based on what command was sent in the queue before it. Also checks for other things like soulscourge, blight, relapse etc.

Basically it takes the queue string, seperates it into an array, one word in each element of the array, then checks the array for specific words and knowing swiftcurse is the word it's looking at for instance, looks two ahead in the array to figure out what curse was sent.

Dochitha

@Austere Thank you, I didn't know it can be done this way, was using different triggers to catch them!