matching link regex for squelching

[Kaldonis]

Since Simu is so wonderful now and spamming us in game, I'm working on a simple squelching script. This is because Warlock FE does not have the ability to squelch. I was awaiting their "circulating" discussion, which turned out to be a pile of bullshit, so congrats Simu for finally getting me to write my own lich scripts to squelch propaganda.

I'm basing some of my work on the squelch script in the repo, which definitely has some clever aspects I wouldn't have known how to do. Although I've managed to squelch a test line, it's by using only a partial regex. The full line I want to squelch is


You can expand your locker by up to 600 extra item slots through acquiring a locker expansion contract.

I have to regex on the part before acquiring when I'm matching to the server_string. If I do a get match, I can match the whole text, but that seems less elegant (and also that way doesn't seem suitable for squelching...I want to return nil when I match the propaganda). Apparently acquiring is some kind of link or contains more than just the text, so how do I find out the raw data coming through the stream to inform the regex? Since I can already match the correct line, is there some way to spit out or save the raw stream? That'd be the tool I need here.

Yes, my question is somewhat academic since, as I said, I can succeed by just using the first part of the line. But assuming I can get a version of this script I'm satisfied with, it'll be the first program I upload to the repo, so I'd like to do it exactly right, and also understand more about the data stream and lich.

My next task, I think, will be to set up a database so users can add their own squelches. However, there should be plenty of examples for me to poke at before I need to ask for any help on that.

PS: Good script name? I'm thinking 'nospam' since 'squelch' is already taken

[DaCapn]

If you base the squelching off of the stream data rather than the text sent to the game window, the user of your script will surely have a problem. Specifically, this problem. Every time they want to squelch something, they'll have to inspect the stream. Most people don't know how to do that and it adds an encumbrance for use (as you can clearly see). In addition, it assumes that the user can reproduce the event (or recall past stream data). What if it's one of those annoying logon/off messages that people have, or an ambient script, or something else of that nature? Think about how you wish it worked in Warlock: that you could just copy the text from the game window and paste it into a squelch list.

That being said, I wrote this a while ago to log the stream but it still works well enough:

# Format month
if Time.now.mon < 10 then monthstr = "0#{Time.now.mon}"
else monthstr = "#{Time.now.mon}"
end
# Format day
if Time.now.day < 10 then daystr = "0#{Time.now.day}"
else daystr = "#{Time.now.day}"
end

# Set log details
log_file = "#{$script_dir}logs/stream-#{Char.name.downcase}_#{Time.now.year}-#{monthstr}-#{daystr}.log"
echo "### Logging stream to #{log_file}"
file = File.open(log_file, File::WRONLY|File::APPEND|File::CREAT)
before_dying { file.close }

# Write to log
status_tags
while line = get
file.write("#{line}\n")
end
More lines spent on messing with the mm dd syntax than actually logging.

[Tillmen]

Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

[Kaldonis]

If you base the squelching off of the stream data rather than the text sent to the game window, the user of your script will surely have a problem. Specifically, this problem. Every time they want to squelch something, they'll have to inspect the stream. Most people don't know how to do that and it adds an encumbrance for use (as you can clearly see). In addition, it assumes that the user can reproduce the event (or recall past stream data). What if it's one of those annoying logon/off messages that people have, or an ambient script, or something else of that nature? Think about how you wish it worked in Warlock: that you could just copy the text from the game window and paste it into a squelch list.


It's a very good point, but I don't know how to go about it.

When I'm able to squelch successfully, I can't match the full line as it appears in the FE, and when I can match the full line as it appears in the FE, I can't squelch it. I've tried any tricks in between the two methods, but I can't get it to work cohesively.

This approach can catch the full string, but cannot squelch it:

loop {
line = get
if line =~ /You can expand your locker by up to 600 extra item slots through acquiring a locker expansion contract./
nil
end
}

This code snippet can squelch, but cannot catch the full string:


silence = proc {
action = proc { |server_string|
if server_string =~ /You can expand your locker by up to 600 extra item slots through/
nil
else
server_string
end
}
DownstreamHook.add("#{script.name}_silence", action)
}


In the second case, I could also do some kludge like replacing the first server_string with line=get and then using line but it still cannot match the full regex.

Is there some way in the second version to evaluate the server_string into what's observed by the FE? Clearly lich can do that or the first version couldn't match the full line...