Question - Events, wildcards and whitespace

[Soandso2]

How does macroquest handle the #*# wildcard in event triggers? As "something" or "nothing or something"?

From the documentation:

#event stuff "Ant #*# Cat"

This would trigger with /echo Ant Bird Cat

1) Do you NEED a wildcard to be present for the event to trigger? I.e. is #*# the same as "something" or is it the same as "nothing or something".
2) If no on question 1), do you need two spaces beween And and Cat for this to trigger, or would it trigger on /echo Ant Cat

Edit: And I am asking because I am currently coding without ability to test.

 

[Amarth]

#*# is literally anything in that section, so it could capture the quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox, or it could capture 123, as long as it fit the parameters.

and if you had "Ant #*# Cat" it would match anything between Ant to Cat. /echo Ant Cat has nothing in between, I believe.

 

[Soandso2]

#*# is literally anything in that section, so it could capture the quick brown dog jumps over the lazy fox, or it could capture 123, as long as it fit the parameters.

and if you had "Ant #*# Cat" it would match anything between Ant to Cat. /echo Ant Cat has nothing in between, I believe.

And NOTHING fits within in the scope of ANYTHING?

/echo Ant Cat has a space between Ant and Cat

/echo Ant #*# Cat has two spaces between And and Cat, even if the wildcard is not present at all.

I suppose it is better to explain why I ask. I am trying to set up some events for when I get experience.

[CODE lang="Lua" title="events"]mq.event("RegExp1","You gain experience! (#1#)",regExperience)
mq.event("RegExp2","You gain experience (with a bonus)! (#1#)",regExperience)
mq.event("RegExp3","You gain party experience! (#1#)",regExperience)
mq.event("RegExp4","You gain party experience (with a bonus)! (#1#)",regExperience)
mq.event("RegExp5","You gain raid experience! (#1#)",regExperience)
mq.event("RegExp6","You gain raid experience (with a bonus)! (#1#)",regExperience)[/CODE]

is what I have. The question is, if I could make this more effective (just for the sake of things). (Not sure if "with a bonus" shows up on raid experience.)

Would "You gain #*# experience!" trigger on all three: "You gain experience!", "You gain party experience!" and "You gain raid experience!"

 

[aquietone]

That wouldn't trigger on you gain experience because there are two spaces around the wildcard. You could just remove the spaces there
You gain#*#experience

 

[Soandso2]

That wouldn't trigger on you gain experience because there are two spaces around the wildcard. You could just remove the spaces there
You gain#*#experience

Exactly, that's what I thought. Thanks!

And thus, I could boil this down to two trigger lines like so:

[CODE lang="Lua" title="Event triggers for experience"]mq.event("AAExp","You gain#*#experience!",aaExperience)
mq.event("RegExp","You gain#*#experience#*#(#1#)",regExperience)[/CODE]