Capture word out of a line and save as a variable.

In my game I have a trigger as follows:



When this text appears and activates the trigger, I'm able to save the name of the monster as a variable. I'm trying to do the exact same thing where I save the name of the weapon I'm using as a variable, but for reasons I don't understand, it's not working.

Here is the text coming from the game.



Here is the new trigger I'm trying to create.



This is being triggered, but it's not capturing and saving the name of my weapon.

Ok, good.


Correct. You made the capture optional with "?". Either end your pattern with "$" or remove the "?" or both.

It's useful to test out regexps at Regular Expressions 101


There are two fixes that will make it work.

1.


The extra $ (assert end of line) forces the regexp to proceed to the end, thus capturing the weapon name.

2.



(Remove the last "?"). By putting a "?" there you are making the weapon name optional, and the regular expression terminates because it doesn't need to go any further.

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Or, as Fiendish just said, make both changes. :)

I recorded a short video clip to illustrate what was going on in response to your original message (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UTv74SJno8), but it looks like your response was edited since then. Thanks. It helped.

Thanks - I'm using that now to try to figure out another problem I'm having were "M - werewolf, wolf" and "M - wolf, werewolf" are confusing my trigger that is trying to catch "wolf" while ignoring "werewolf".




Jeez, so simple but so complex. Since (.*?) worked in the other trigger, it never would have occurred to me to try (.*) this time. But sure enough, that works. To prevent capturing the period at the end of the sentence, I changed the final regex this this:



..and that seems to do the trick.

Hmmm.

I would be cautious with this sequence: "(.*).*".

That seems pretty ambiguous, you want to match "anything" followed by "anything". Where does the first "anything" end and the second one start?

My guess is that the first one will be greedy and thus the second one will never match anything at all. So, leave it out.




Make another post, and include the full trigger: