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Re: PF statblock importer

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Nope, we want the parens because they create a regex group that can be extracted from the string as a match.

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Full Bleed wrote:I couldn't get any of the suggestions made to work, so after some gnashing of teeth, I figured out something that works for me:

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[H: id = strfind(statblock, "hp ([0-9]+).(\\((.+)\\))?.?Fort")]
[H, IF(0<getFindCount(id)),CODE:
	{ 
		[HP=getGroup(id, 1, 1)]
		[MaxHP=HP]
		[HD=getGroup(id, 1, 2)]
	}
]
I ran into a problem with the above.

It works for most situations because they look like this:
hp 92 (8d10+48)
Fort +12, Ref +5, Will +10
But some look like this:
hp 92 (8d10+48); regeneration 5 (fire or acid)
Fort +12, Ref +5, Will +10
So, how do I get it to stop at the semi-colon OR "Fort"?
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Re: PF statblock importer

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Full Bleed wrote:So, how do I get it to stop at the semi-colon OR "Fort"?
Remove the trailing .?Fort and that should do it.

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Re: PF statblock importer

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Full Bleed wrote:I've been customizing the statblock2token macro for my framework and I was wondering if someone knew a way to grab the HP values inside the parenthesis using strfind?

That is, if the statblock reads:

hp 80 (7d10+42)

I'd like to be able to grab the "7d10+42" value.

That way I can quickly randomize the hitpoint values of monsters I drop into the game instead of using the default values (which are usually pretty weak.)
Here's the regex I've been using to extract die rolls with pluses, inside parentheses:
\\([-0-9d\\+]+\\)

I haven't tested in thoroughly, but it should grab anything that looks like die rolls (numbers, the letter 'd', +/-) in a continuous sequence, with a bracket on either end. If you don't want the brackets, but want to capture everything inside, a lookaround might work instead:
(?<=\\()[-0-9d\\+]+(?=\\))
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Azhrei wrote:
Full Bleed wrote:So, how do I get it to stop at the semi-colon OR "Fort"?
Remove the trailing .?Fort and that should do it.
Nope. It doesn't stop at the semi colon... in fact it continue to the end of the statblock making for one very large property value. ;)


Biodude, I'm going to need more specific info on where and how to plug in those examples using the code I posted above... what I've tried doesn't seem to work.
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Full Bleed wrote:Nope. It doesn't stop at the semi colon... in fact it continue to the end of the statblock making for one very large property value. ;)
Huh?

Ohhhh, I see. The regex is being greedy about what is inside the parens so it grabs everything up to the last close paren! Try this instead:

hp ([0-9]+).(\\((.+?)\\))?

Notice that the same "Fort" string is removed, but there's also a "?" after the ".+" -- that makes for the shortest possible string instead of the (default) longest possible string.

Now the regex will break if the parens contains nested parens, but there's no easy way to handle nested parens within RE's so hopefully that doesn't happen. ;)

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Azhrei wrote:Try this instead:

hp ([0-9]+).(\\((.+?)\\))?
That did the trick! Thanks. :)
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Ok, next problem.

I'm looking to have the parser set the level of specific classes.

So, I'm currently using this to grab the first number after a particular class name:

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[H: id = strfind(statblock, "warrior ([0-9]+)")]
The problem is that Clerics (and maybe some other classes) say things like: "cleric of iomedae"

So what I need is for the parser to find the class name and then grab the next number irrespective of what text lies between the text and the number.
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Something like:

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[h:id = strfind(statblock, "cleric.*?([0-9]+)")]
ought to do it. It's just classname(some characters)(capture group forthe number). The match is not greedy, to avoid running past the next number (or that's the idea). So that would get

cleric of iomedae 10

as well as

cleric 5


If you've never used it, I find RegExr and Java Regular Expression Test Applet invaluable for this stuff.

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Rumble wrote:Something like:

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[h:id = strfind(statblock, "cleric.*?([0-9]+)")]
Thanks. Works great. :)

If you've never used it, I find RegExr and Java Regular Expression Test Applet invaluable for this stuff.
And thanks for the links. Beats the heck out of trial and error in MT!
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Full Bleed wrote:
Rumble wrote:Something like:

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[h:id = strfind(statblock, "cleric.*?([0-9]+)")]
Thanks. Works great. :)

If you've never used it, I find RegExr and Java Regular Expression Test Applet invaluable for this stuff.
And thanks for the links. Beats the heck out of trial and error in MT!
No prob. What I usually do is create it in RegExr, and then put it in the Java tester to see what works. I then copy the pattern from the Java tester page, since that formats it for Java's regex engine, which is what MapTool uses.

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Be careful as there are some multi-class NPC's and I am not certain this grabs the true class level in that case.

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neofax wrote:Be careful as there are some multi-class NPC's and I am not certain this grabs the true class level in that case.
That may be. If it was warrior 5/peasant 2/cleric 4 or whatever, it wouldn't - but you could extend it to capture those as well and sum them up.

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Rumble wrote:That may be. If it was warrior 5/peasant 2/cleric 4 or whatever, it wouldn't - but you could extend it to capture those as well and sum them up.
That's exactly what I do. I loop through a list of all classes and assign levels accordingly. I have a udf that pulls the total level or the level of a particular class.
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Rumble wrote:Something like:

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[h:id = strfind(statblock, "cleric.*?([0-9]+)")]
ought to do it. It's just classname(some characters)(capture group forthe number). The match is not greedy, to avoid running past the next number (or that's the idea). So that would get

cleric of iomedae 10

as well as

cleric 5


If you've never used it, I find RegExr and Java Regular Expression Test Applet invaluable for this stuff.
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