This is a simple little question, why doesn't this do anything:

Pattern:

Animated branches from the trees above suddenly reach down and clutch (%d)


Value:

#cw {lightblue}
#sub {%1 IS IN THE TREES!!}

Because (%d) matches a number, but the trees almost never clutch numbers, they clutch people with words for names. Try (%w).

Ahhhh, thank you, I thought %d grabbed whatever was there.

%d is number, %w is word, %s is spaces, * is anything.

Is there a downside to using *?

Nevermind, thought it's about regex, not some bastardized version.

Edited.

In theory, it's slower. In practice, in this particular trigger, not really. But it's just good practice to use the most specific pattern that will work. If you're trying to match a word, there's no disadvantage to using the %w pattern, and names are always words.