Help with math in mudlet

Damashi

I tried fixing the script i found online and I can't get her to fire.

This is the one i found here, dated 2014.  I've tried switching from substring to perl and everything under the sun.

^If (\d+) cows jumped into Runaway River and (\d+)

answer = tonumber(matches[2])-tonumber(matches[3])
send("say " .. answer)


^If (\d+) beavers and (\d+) beavers got together with (\d+)

answer = tonumber(matches[2])+tonumber(matches[3])+tonumber(matches[4])
send("say " .. answer)

I've made adjustments, but I'm just learning.  Now I'm irritated.  tia

Syrennia

Remove the ^ at the start.

^ denotes the start of the line, which in your case that isn't going to be the start of the line.

Damashi

That didn't work, either.

Syrennia

I mean that's exactly what I have, and it works just fine.

Damashi

Oooh, I'm missing some spaces.  Thanks