Vadi, when you announced Mudlet in the Mushclient forums, Nick wished ya all the best and said that MC's open source, steal what ya want...


Can you grab his tprint, so things like tprint(Geyser) doesn't go into an infinite loop and kill the client?

\w is any letter (any word character). It doesn't match spaces. ^(.*?) \[(.*?)\]$ is what you want. I'm assuming you're trying to match a room short desc + exits. Of the posted responses, this is the best one. It backtracks less, and unlike the others, will actually not break if there's more than o...

\w is any letter (any word character). It doesn't match spaces.
^(.*?) \[(.*?)\]$

is what you want.

Vadi wrote:tbh I suspect / will work fine on windows as well

Lua does the conversion for you. If you want to use backslashes, you need to escape them with a backslash (i.e. C:\\Users\\Foo)

If you're just referring to standard cdeclspec functions, you might consider a package called Alien. If you're new to Lua, I'd recommend getting the Lua for Windows installation. It installs what you may think of as a VM, an IDE, and lots of libs and provides documentation and a walkthru of the lang...

I keep seeing people use the term "shielded regexp" ... what's it mean? A regex further down a filter chain or something?

Vadi wrote:http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.5.5

for indexed tables, it's how many elements are there (holes are accounted for), for strings, it's usually how many characters

so #commands in this example is 3

No it doesn't count holes.

A metatable is a hidden table attached to a table. It several default keys that have a special behavior: __index -- is called when the key doesn't exist. __newidx -- is called when a new value is ADDED (not changed) __call -- is called when you try to use the table as a function. are the most common...

In regular strings, Lua uses \ as an escape character. Like when concatenating "\n" in for a new line, it's reading the "\i" as a metacharacter. To fix it, you can either: 1. double up the backslashes in a regular string. "C:\\images" 2. Use Lua's long strings like Heik...

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