[TF] Really stupid pattern matching problem.

[johans at stack.nl (J. v. Selst)]

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Linnemann wrote:
> Given a message like:
> 2003/03/06 04:24:09 - Name outguilded Othername.
> 
> and the trigger like:
> /def -p0 -mglob -t'[0-9/]* [0-9:]* - [A-Za-z]* outguilded [A-Z][a-z]*.'
> sentoust = /echo Sentoust: 1: %1, 2: %2, 3: %3, 4: %4, 5: %5, 6: %6.

There are two things wrong with this. With globs "[0-9/]*" matches
the first character only (must be 0-9 or /) followed by any other random
characters. If you want to match a string entirely consisting of 0-9 or
/ characters, then you should use -mregexp.

%6 matches the sixth word on a line. To match with an expression you
should use parentheses "()" and %Pn, for example:

/def -p0 -mregexp -t'[0-9/]* [0-9:]* - [A-Za-z]* outguilded ([A-Z][a-z]*).'
  sentoust = /echo Sentoust: 1: %1, 2: %2, 3: %3, 4: %4, 5: %5, 6: %P1.


Ciao,
Johan