Newbie Rescue Trigger Question

[gylippus]

I barely know what I am doing and any help is appreciated.

I am trying to make a basic rescue trigger. In the prompt on my mud it will show tank name like this: TN: Brasidas

My idea was to make a perl regex trigger so I did this:

matching pattern: TN: (\w+) type perl regex

code

target = matches[2]
if target ~= Brasidas then
send("stand")
send("rescue " .. target)
end


When I use this code and use highlight function it highlights the name right after TN: so I know it is capturing the name BUT it will rescue everyone. No matter what the name is it will send the rescue. So basically I end up rescuing myself since my tanks name is Brasidas. To me, this code is saying if the person who needs to be rescued is NOT named Brasidas then execute but apparently I am completely wrong.

2nd questions - sometimes the rescue fails and it will send a message like 'you have failed the rescue'. If I get the first part to work I want to make sure it will try again just in case of failure. A success message is something like 'you have rescued (insert player's name).

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Moderator Edit: A previous post from the same new user contained an earlier version of this with some of the same content - it has been deleted to avoid repetition! Please can new users who have not had their first post approved hang on until it is before they repost the same or more information - it is possible to revise the original when you get approved {i.e. when someone works out that you are a human and not a spambot...}

[Drevarr]

Assuming you have the exact code in your post your issue is with the variable: Brasidas. I'm assuming you really wanted "Brasidas" rather than a variable Brasidas.

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target = matches[2]
display (target)
if target ~= "Brasidas" then
	send("stand")
	send("rescue " .. target)
end

or add a tank variable for more flexibility

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tank = "Brasidas"

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target = matches[2]
display (target)
if target ~= tank then
	send("stand")
	send("rescue " .. target)
end

Drevarr the Old