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Hello.
I've got trigger with pattern: . I wanted to echo all matches in line, so i tried echo(matches[1]), but it echoes only first sword in the line. I thought it worked recursivly and would echo all swords. In debug log first sword is stored in and all others are kept in . :'(

Hope you understood me and help me to solve the problem.

Not quite sure what you mean, but matches[1] is the whole line. So, if you have

^This is a thing I made up to test (\w+).$

then matches[1] is the whole line captured and matches[2] would be the wildcard in the brackets.

Hope that helps!

not really,
lets say a line like this comes: then matches[1] would be "big sharp sword". I checked it in mud

No, matches[1] is the first *complete* match in the line. If you have 2 capture groups and chose the match all option and get a second match on the same line matches[] will look like this:
#1= first complete match
#2 = ---> first cap group of first match
#3 =---> second cap group of first match
#4 = second complete match
#5 = ---> first cap group of second match
#6 = ---> second cap group of second match

You can use display( matches ) to print the table matches to see what happens.

You can print all matches that you are interested in by iterating over the table matches.
This is being described in the manual.

Thanks for the info!
Now I can move on with my script