Mudlet Coding Problem for shield tracking

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• Chade

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Try these patterns:

  
  

  ^(\w+) mutters and traces a cobalt blue pentagram in the air that remains hovering before (him|her)\.$
  

  ^Spreading .+? arms wide\, (\w+) spins clockwise and a shimmering white orb springs up around (him|her)\.$
  

  
  

  Try this code:
  

  
  

  if string.lower(matches[2]) == string.lower(itar) then

  deleteLine()

  cecho("\n <medium_violet_red> ------------------------------------------------ \n")

  cecho("\n <medium_violet_red> | TARGET SHIELDUP TARGET SHIELDUP |\n")

  cecho("\n <medium_violet_red> ------------------------------------------------ \n")

  end

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• Chade

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  The matches[2] you had for the line 1 trigger would have been (his|her), I think you can prevent it from matching with (?:his|her) but I'm not 100% sure without looking at my system, however I know .+? will work and won't return matches[2].

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• Regin

  February 2014

  Chade said:

  Try these patterns:

  
  

  ^(\w+) mutters and traces a cobalt blue pentagram in the air that remains hovering before (him|her)\.$
  

  ^Spreading .+? arms wide\, (\w+) spins clockwise and a shimmering white orb springs up around (him|her)\.$
  

  
  

  Try this code:
  

  
  

  if string.lower(matches[2]) == string.lower(itar) then

  deleteLine()

  cecho("\n <medium_violet_red> ------------------------------------------------ \n")

  cecho("\n <medium_violet_red> | TARGET SHIELDUP TARGET SHIELDUP |\n")

  cecho("\n <medium_violet_red> ------------------------------------------------ \n")

  end

  I tried the patterns and codes you gave without any luck. Any other possible solutions?
  

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• Ushaara Schrödinger's Traitor

  February 2014

  Chade's should work against other players I would think, but for hunting the '==' is going to test for exact equality, which won't necessarily be the case.
  
  Eg, if your target is 'merian', you can have the different types of merian, 'A merian bravo mutters and traces...'
  
  Try
  
  if string.find(matches[2], itar) then
  YOUR CODE HERE
  end
  
  

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• Regin

  February 2014

  Ushaara said:

  Chade's should work against other players I would think, but for hunting the '==' is going to test for exact equality, which won't necessarily be the case.
  
  Eg, if your target is 'merian', you can have the different types of merian, 'A merian bravo mutters and traces...'
  
  Try
  
  if string.find(matches[2], itar) then
  YOUR CODE HERE
  end
  
  

  Still nothing. I am currently using

  
  

  Patterns:

  
  

  ^(\w+) mutters and traces a cobalt blue pentagram in the air that remains hovering before (him|her)\.$
  

  ^Spreading .+? arms wide\, (\w+) spins clockwise and a shimmering white orb springs up around (him|her)\.$
  

  
  

  Code:

  
  

  if string.find(matches[2], itar) then

  deleteLine()

  cecho("\n <medium_violet_red> ------------------------------------------------ \n")

  cecho("\n <medium_violet_red> | TARGET SHIELDUP TARGET SHIELD UP |\n")

  cecho("\n <medium_violet_red> ------------------------------------------------ \n")

  end

  
  

  Is everything correct? 

  
  

  
  

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• Ushaara Schrödinger's Traitor

  February 2014

  (\w+) will only match a single word, so I was going off your original post in my reply.
  Try
  

  ^(.+) mutters and traces a cobalt blue pentagram in the air that remains hovering before (?:him|her)\.$
  ^Spreading (?:his|her) arms wide, (.+) spins clockwise and a shimmering white orb springs up around (?:him|her)\.$
  
  local str = string.lower(matches[2])
  if string.find(str, itar) or string.find(str, tar) then
  deleteLine()
  cecho("\n  ------------------------------------------------ \n")
  cecho("\n  | TARGET SHIELDUP TARGET SHIELD UP |\n")
  cecho("\n  ------------------------------------------------ \n")
  end
  

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• Regin

  February 2014

  Ushaara said:

  (\w+) will only match a single word, so I was going off your original post in my reply.
  Try
  

  ^(.+) mutters and traces a cobalt blue pentagram in the air that remains hovering before (?:him|her)\.$
  ^Spreading (?:his|her) arms wide, (.+) spins clockwise and a shimmering white orb springs up around (?:him|her)\.$
  
  local str = string.lower(matches[2])
  if string.find(str, itar) or string.find(str, tar) then
  deleteLine()
  cecho("\n  ------------------------------------------------ \n")
  cecho("\n  | TARGET SHIELDUP TARGET SHIELD UP |\n")
  cecho("\n  ------------------------------------------------ \n")
  end
  

  Still nothing . If there is nothing wrong with the cecho, could there be something wrong with the variable that I set it to for targetting? For targetting I have

  
  

  ^itar (.+)$
  

  
  

  itar = matches[2]

  echo ("Target: " ..itar)

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• Rykinia

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Could always use matches[1] instead, to check the entire line for your target. Since it's only going to looking at those specific lines, anyway.
  (Just tested this to verify that it does indeed work)
  eg:
  
  

  local str = string.lower(matches[1])
  if string.find(str, itar:lower()) then
     deleteLine()
     cecho("\n<red>   ----------------------------------\n")
     cecho("\n<red>  | TARGET SHIELDUP TARGET SHIELD UP |\n")
     cecho("\n<red>   ----------------------------------\n")
  end

  Using these lines:
  ^.* mutters and traces a cobalt blue pentagram in the air that remains hovering before (\w+)\.$
  ^Spreading (\w+) arms wide, .* spins clockwise and a shimmering white orb springs up around (\w+)\.$
  ^Eyes glowing red, .* bellows and a shield of protection flickers into view around (\w+) form\.$
  

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• Ushaara Schrödinger's Traitor

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  Regin said:

  Ushaara said:

  (\w+) will only match a single word, so I was going off your original post in my reply.
  Try
  

  ^(.+) mutters and traces a cobalt blue pentagram in the air that remains hovering before (?:him|her)\.$
  ^Spreading (?:his|her) arms wide, (.+) spins clockwise and a shimmering white orb springs up around (?:him|her)\.$
  
  local str = string.lower(matches[2])
  if string.find(str, itar) or string.find(str, tar) then
  deleteLine()
  cecho("\n  ------------------------------------------------ \n")
  cecho("\n  | TARGET SHIELDUP TARGET SHIELD UP |\n")
  cecho("\n  ------------------------------------------------ \n")
  end
  

  Still nothing . If there is nothing wrong with the cecho, could there be something wrong with the variable that I set it to for targetting? For targetting I have

  
  

  ^itar (.+)$
  

  
  

  itar = matches[2]

  echo ("Target: " ..itar)

  Just did a quick test of the code I provided. Make sure that you have declared -both- of your itar and tar variables, and that they're in lowercase and it should work.
  

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• Regin

  February 2014

  Problem Solved. The issue was with my wrap width. The line was too long for when a creature put up a shield and that prevented the trigger from picking it up. It is now working. Thank you to everyone who helped me. 

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