Target variable attacks

[Strachan]

I'm playing a Diku mud. Often aggressive mobiles attack. I would like to tell my charmed mobiles (as a magic user character) to attack those variable aggresive mobiles, as soon as they attack me. I thought of creating a regex trigger, but don't know how to stop it after the initial command.

For example:

A guard hits you.
The riverman's daughter obliterate you.
The Grip Reaper suddenly appears and totally devastate you with his attack.

Key words would be "hit" or "obliterate" or "devastate". There is quite a lot more, but just to demonstrate.

I would then have a send command to my charmie as a wildcard to attack "guard", or "daughter" or Grim Reaper". The send would look something like: "order f kill .*"

How the actual script look to set this up, and then also not to keep triggering every time i am hit? Any help will be appreciated. Sorry, I know I have a lot to learn. I have looked at quite a few examples already, and am getting some idea of the basics.

[Vadi]

Try watching the introductory Mudlet videos at https://www.mudlet.org/media - see how far you go? Post your attempts here

[Belgarath]

This is probably how I would do it...

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-- capture the last word (ie. guard, daughter, reaper)
local target = matches[2]:match("(%w+)$")

-- add any changes to the target here if necessary
local to_target = {
  ["Reaper"] = "Grim Reaper"
}

target = to_target[target] or target

-- only attack if `attacking` is set to false (or nil)
if not attacking then
  send("order f kill " .. target)
  attacking = true
end

And you could set the attacking variable to false on some generic kill message. Hope this helps.