I'm trying to figure out wildcards. How to set them, and such. I'm using Mush, just so you know.


For instance, using %1 as the wildcard, I think that's how it's done;



I would want to automatically




I know it's a basic trigger, but I plan on doing a few things, that's just an idea.

Any help out there?

EDIT: Also, a way to let the game wildcard things. For instance, in Aetolia, I was hit with an affliction, and part of the letters were gone. Like-

would be the affliction line.

But instead, I got



Is there a way for a system to see past that?

Don't use %1 in the pattern. That goes in the script. Put parentheses around your wildcard to capture it.

(%w) performs this action.
enemy %1

Oh, so why w?

And is 1 used because it's the first wildcard in the triggering phrase?

w means it's a 'word', ie comprised of letters, numbers, or the underscore character.

%1 is used, yes, because it's the first wildcard in the triggering phrase. If you go on to use full regex you can have wildcards which aren't captured, though.

You don't even have to use regex. You could have something like this:

(%w) enters from the %w, wielding (*).

Here %1 would be the first word and %2 would be the last phrase.

so, (%w) captures as %1, %w by itself is just a wildcard, and sentence/phrase (*) would capture as %2?

For instance, I have this.





And I want it to



I've tried it, and it doesn't do anything. Is there a box in Mush I should be checking? It says it's enabled.

Rule number one about asking for help with scripting: TELL US WHICH CLIENT BEFORE WE ASSUME THE WRONG ONE!

What Esano and I said was for zMUD/CMUD. It's a little different in MUSHclient.

The simple pattern:


The regular expression:


For other info, check out the online help page...

You win. It was my fault, assuming the wrong client based on the wrong examples. I'm so used to seeing people use %1 in zMUD patterns...

Huh, I read it through and assumed zMUD/cMUD as well. :|