Not what I had in mind.

Let me use Cmud as an example. In Cmud there are wildcards that are used in pattern matching.

IE:
%w any one word
%s any amount of white spaces
%p any punctuation
%d any single whole number

These can be put in brackets to further make them useful.

[%w%s%p] would match any series words spaces and punctuation.

This is extremely useful. At least for me it is.

As far as I can see in the documentation there are no wildcards within SF.

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>>That is correct. Those of us who use StormFront scripting engine simply write more specific scripts, use more user-defined variables, write up clever workarounds when we can, and accept that SF scripts cannot do certain things when all of the above have failed.

Admitted. I was purely asking if it would be possible. I would email the proposition in but I know not what the address is.

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Woody, these are applicable in StormFront?

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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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Yes, Both Stormfront and Escape have Regular Expression Matching capability, hence why my first reply was "MATCHRE"

Note, though, that the Escape and Stormfront RE syntax is slightly different, since Escape's is based in Javascript Syntax.

Myke...*slips you a 20* give storm front triggers please:)


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<for more info, see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/2380d458-3366-402b-996c-9363906a7353.asp>

incorrect. people always seem to think microsoft invented everything... truth is, they STOLE everything.

for further information see http://www.perl.org/ and look up regular espressions.


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Thanks for the response Myke.

Reading that page and trying to comprehend it right now makes me feel like a caveman trying to take in and understand Latin.
Guess I should try it after some sleep and a cup of coffee? ;)

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Some example of re's I use...

Matchre WHATEVERWATI /Sorry,|\.*wait/

The | <"pipe" charecter equates to "or"
The \ tells the engine the next charecter has special and or unique meaning in the case above \. means look for a period.
The * means look for one or multiple of the preceeding charecter, so \.* is look for any number of periods.

I like to use modules in scripts so I don't have to repeat code. Here's a section that utilizes regular expression matching to minimize lines in my code.

CHECKLEVELW:
Pause 1
CHECKLEVEL:
Matchre %EXPLEARNING /%\s(clear|learning|thoughtful|pondering|concentrating|muddled|very\smuddled|perplexing|perplexed|bewildering|bewildered)/i
Matchre %EXPMINDLOCK /%\s(mind\slock|dazed)/i
Matchre CHECKLEVELW /Sorry,|\.*wait/
Put exp %EXP2CHECK
MatchWait

#USAGE
CHECKHEEXP:
SetVariable EXPLEARNING GETHE
SetVariable EXPMINDLOCK GETME
SetVariable EXP2CHECK heavy edged
GoTo CHECKLEVEL

In essense the first match catches anything bur mind lock and dazed. The second send you to where you want to go when mind locked or dazed.
The \s = "any white space" probably redundent or uneccesary and it's what I started with long ago...

Following the USAGE guid allows you to call this from anywhere in your script. Yes it's limited to the defined parameters. You could use variables to define the parameters.

IE: Matchre %EXPLEARNING %LEARNINGPARAM
Add SetVariable LEARNINGPARAM /%\s(clear|learning|thoughtful|pondering|concentrating|muddled|very\smuddled|perplexing|perplexed/i to CHECKHEEXP.

Want to ensure you hands are empty?

EMPTYHANDSW:
Pause 1
EMPTYHANDS:
#ECHO >>>> EMPTYHANDS: <<<<
Match SHEATHINITW2HE %W2HE
Match SHEATHINITWHE %WHE
Match SHEATHINITWME %WME
Match SHEATHINITWLE %WLE
Match SHEATHINITW2HB %W2HB
Match SHEATHINITWHB %WHB
Match SHEATHINITWMB %WMB
Match SHEATHINITWLB %WLB
Match SHEATHINITWLT %WLT
Match SHEATHINITWHT %WHT
Match SHEATHINITWSS %WSS
Match SHEATHINITWQS %WQS
Match SHEATHINITWPIKE %WPIKE
Match SHEATHINITWHALBERD %WHALBERD
Match SHEATHINITWLBOW %WLBOW
Match SHEATHINITWSSLING %WSSLING
Match SHEATHINITSKINKNIFE %SKINKNIFE
Matchre STOWR /(pelt|skin|claw|bones|tusk|%JUGGLIES%|%SHIELD%|%WSLING%|%WCBOW%|%WSBOW%|%WHX%|%WLX%).*in your right hand/i
Matchre STOWL /(pelt|skin|claw|bones|tusk|%JUGGLIES%|%SHIELD%|%WSLING%|%WCBOW%|%WSBOW%|%WHX%|%WLX%).*in your left hand/i
Match %GOTOPOSTHANDCLEANUP glance down at your empty hands.
Matchre EMPTYHANDSW /Sorry,|\.*wait/
Put glance
MatchWait

#USAGE
EMPTYHANDS2SKIN:
SetVariable GOTOPOSTHANDCLEANUP SKINIT
GoTo EMPTYHANDS

IMPORTANT to note when useing Matchre you must use the ending % on a variable.
IE:
Matchre STOWR /(pelt|skin|claw|bones|tusk|%JUGGLIES%|%SHIELD%|%WSLING%|%WCBOW%|%WSBOW%|%WHX%|%WLX%).*in your right hand/i
Verses
Match SHEATHINITWLBOW %WLBOW

Anyway hope that helps in some way....

"Don't go to far, don't stay to long."

Installed on a 2.8ghz win xp/nt system with 1 gig ram nvideo 64xx with 356 meg video. Using 2.28 thurough DSL Cellnet.

Get this error when launching from SGE

Error Code 14001
"C:\progra~1\simu\stormf~stormfront.exe" /GDR/hdr.simutronics.net/P11024/(entry code)

>>--Shnurui>

Not only did I get the same error message, but I've not been able to go back to the old version of Stormfront. I've deleted, reinstalled, but each time I log in, I don't get a complete connection. No commands are accepted. After about 20 seconds, I'm logged out. I'd really not recommend installing the beta version at this time.

Same error. Win XP, 1 GHz ram, cable ethernet on a home network, mismatched socks.

~player of Gulphphunger

>> - I was pulled out of hiding.
>> - There was no experience drain.

Which reminds me--the current version of Stormfront no longer saves my window placement for any of my characters, which means I have to import my settings every time I log in. Also, importing brings you out of hiding.

~player of Gulphphunger

The new beta version seems to fix this.


- Player of Foresee

"Since your character is a unique snowflake, I will not attempt to create a measure for his own, personal angst." - DR-Armifer

<<I got this same error code too when I installed it yesterday.>>

Its fixed in the current beta version.


Myke

<<was there vertanotes somewheres?>>

http://www.play.net/dr/play/sf/notes.asp

<<Did we get nifty new tools?>>

Mainly just bug fixes.

<<Did the need to nest varibles go away?>>

There were no changes to scripting.


Myke

<<I am not sure if this is a SF issue or not but after upgrading to the new beta version, I can no longer look in my bamboo tube. When I look IN the tube I get the description of the tube as if I had just looked AT it. I can rumage the tube though and see the items in it.>>

I doubt it but, you can try with the Wizard and see if its the same.


Myke

>There were no changes to scripting.

Darn. Well can it get put in a random number on the "git 'round to it" list?

namely something like a If_null command defaulting to literal execution.

example var two is currently null in the phrase below

match %next%two data response

This would default to the variable %next, ignoring the %two since it's empty.

Maybe also make it buelean capable, ie %next%c

>>--Shnurui>

I'd much rather go the route of the tool I paid for already, but the timer is still screwy and I can't afford the other format (Z- C-)

>>--Shnurui>

Don't forget ADDTOIGNORESTRINGS and DELETEFROMIGNORESTRINGS!

Also, and this is probably asking a lot, but what about a MATCHELSE<#> command, where the matchwait will go to the matchelse label after # seconds of not matching any of the other matches. So an example would be:

match labelA You get ye flask
match labelB You can't get ye flask
matchelse5 labelC
put get ye flask
matchwait

This would tell the script that if the game output doesn't match to labelA or labelB within 5 seconds of inputting the command, to default to labelC. I know it sounds way out there, but there are countless times where I wish I could have something like this, especially when dealing with anything that may (or may not) have a delayed reaction in game (shockwave trap?).

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If-then-else statements would be an incredible addition to the SF scripting engine.

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