Problem with using a variable in script

Hola. In the game, there are note boards, and I am trying to count how many posts each poster has made. When do you something like 'note list' you'll see something like this:

Title of Post - Poster 12:00am Mar 20 '08
Title of Post2 - Poster2 12:00am Mar 20 '08
Title of Post3 - Poster3 12:00am Mar 20 '08

and on and on, hundreds of posts. So I wrote this regexp match line:


(^ ghetto, I know. I'm not very good with regexp)

to capture the name of the person. However, when I try to use Send to Script in the trigger to manipulate the variable, add it something, et cetera, using variable %2 or %<name> returns 'nil'. But if I change SEND TO to Output, put %2 or %<name> it will return the appropriate string, not 'nil'. For example, if I set it to Send to Script, and just type in the send box:

Note(%2)
or print(%2)
or
Note(%<name>)

it returns a note stating 'nil' when I test the trigger.

But if I set Send to Output and put just '%2' in the Send box, it'll print the name of the person correctly. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

If you use a script file, then %1 and so on will not be expanded, as the script has already been compiled. Take a look at the examples in http://mushclient.com/scripting - inside a script function you get an array of wildcards.

For example:



That would print wildcard number 2.

Putting the script in the value box, however, is what he's doing. You just need quotes around your wildcards to make them expand as strings rather than Lua variables.

Note("%1") -- Should work fine
Note(%1) -- If %1 is Poster1, the script tries to access the Lua variable (not MUSHclient world variable) named Poster1 and doesn't find it, thus you get nil instead