Regular expression tips
Posted by Kyle Hankinson August 17th, 2022
General
If you need a trigger or alias to match on a regular expression, here are some hints and tips to use.
Regex vailidation
As you type your regex, the main mud display will update to highlight matches.
- The background will be highlighted with the full match range. The full match can be accessed in script via
\0. - Each capture group will be underlined and can be used as a paramter in the script starting with
\1,\2,\3, etc.
Whitespace
For whitespace (space, tab, linebreak) use the \s+ syntax option. While most muds will use spaces, some muds will use tabs is certain instances which may case a basic space match to fail.