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Hello,

I am struggling to find the regex that I need for a particular trigger.

I would like the trigger to match any line showing that an NPC slashed another player, but not match lines showing that an NPC slashed me. So, for example:

Goblin slashes Tom's leg. (Match)
Goblin slashes Mary's leg. (Match)
Goblin slashes your leg. (No match)

I tried several variants of this: without success.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

Probably easiest would be something like

^.* slashes ([A-Za-z]+)'s leg.$

^(.+) slashes (.+)\'?s? leg\.$

if you want to force it to be one word in each set of parentheses you can use:
^(\w+) slashes (\w+)\'?s? leg\.$

The previous poster's suggestion will fail in the 'your' example. You can make the apostraphe and s optional with '?'

The 's isn't optional though: He wants the trigger to fail (no match) if that pattern is present.

Oh I totally misread that part. Yours is totally fine then, although the period at the end will allow matches of additional text at the end of the sentence. Bill murray's amazing dog slashes Cthulu's legz will also match.

^(\w+) slashes (\w+)\'s leg\.$ is sufficiently strict, and I think that ^([A-Za-z]+) slashes ([A-Za-z]+)\'s leg\.$ is the strictest you can go. I always forget that \w matches numbers!