Capture portion of a chat message to a variable

[daggeraldude]

Is it possible to capture a portion of a chat message to a variable? Similar to back-reference functionality in regex (\$1\)?

[yaroz]

Not currently.. it's an expression that I've asked Virindi to look into.

[HellsWrath]

If we could do that my char control meta would be cut in half lol.

[yaroz]

mine too

[daggeraldude]

Well, I guess add me to the list of wanting this functionality, then! Thanks for the replies guys.

[HellsWrath]

Unfortunately even if she added string capture it wouldn't function for plugin text, only AC chat. Unless she specifically adds that feature which is nonexistent atm. Can only react to normal AC text, no plugin text (not even other bundle plugins without doing a message relay dance with VCS)

[Sif al Taak]

But AC Chat Capture would be a start to make many things more easy/flexible/shorter....

Virindi is on the right way i think and made us allready happy with the expr features....

I think we could hope and beg her to see the capture stuff in the future Thx V!!!

[CrazyTrain]

What about capturing the name of someone who /t's you?
Is that possible to put into a variable?

so instead of replying via /r , it would be by the variable of a characters name that messaged you.

[Dmdtt]

currently there is no reasonable way to capture information and use it like you are asking, one possibility is you can build yourself a list of chat message conditions that each match to 1 particular char name each that set a variable. but to do so is obviously quite tedious. personally I have for 2 of my metas a list of rules for char names of members of my alleg so if they ever /t me I make a chat log of anything said to me while I am running those metas. but the extent of what you can do like that is very very limited and time consuming to setup.

[CrazyTrain]

Alright, thank you for the info!