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Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 7

Hi guys,

Some 20 years ago, I created a trigger that helped me remember the names of characters in a mud that I play. Back then, I was kinda in to learning how to code so it was actually easy. Now that I've moved on to a different skillset, I cannot for the life of me, remember how the heck I managed to make such a script.

The function is fairly simple, I know what I want, I just don't remember how to get there and I would appreciate your help.

In the mud I play, character names are not displayed, only their descriptions. I used this trigger as a way to remember names.

So this is how it worked:

The mud gives this text:
A bald guy is here.

I want it to show this:
(Baldie) A bald guy is here.

The trigger basically appends the character's name in parenthesis before the triggering string.

I cannot, for the life of me remember how I did it before and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 2:32 pm

This is a simple database variable substitution.

First, you need to populate the database of known people

#ADDKEY friends {A bald guy} {Baldie}

Then you need your substitution trigger

#TR {({@friends})} {#SUB {%concat( "(", %db(@friends, %1), ") ", %1)}}

Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2020 2:35 pm

Oh, that's a CMUD answer...

for zMUD you have to be a bit more direct:

#TR {(A bald guy is here.)} {#SUB {%concat( "(Baldie) ", %1)}}

Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 7

These are awesome!

I appreciate both the CMUD and Zmud solutions. I cannot remember how I came to doing this myself some 18 years ago. (Just realized that I found that mud in 2002 and made the trigger about the same time)

Thank you so much!

Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 7

Quick question. If I wanted to color the name in the parenthesis different from the line, how would I do that?

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 1:15 pm

I would use some MXP tags.

Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2009 Posts: 7

Thank you, that helps!