.DT parser $MUDNAME$ Player Help parser .SH Name .SI 5 parser - the $MUDNAME$ (Discworld) object parser .EI .SH Description .SP 5 5 The $MUDNAME$ object parser is a sophisticated parser designed to be as easy as possible to use. It matches multiple objects based on their plurals and non-plurals. It will always try and match exactly, so if you have an object you want to match called a 'blue frog' if you type in 'look at frog' it will match correctly, however if you type 'look at frog blue' it will not match. 'look at blue frog' would also match. If there are multiple of the same type of object around you can specify which object you wish to identify exactly in one of two ways. You can put a number after the words you match, or the ordinal in front of the words to match. For example 'blue frog 1' or '3rd blue frog'. If you wish to match multiple of the same type of object you can specify how many you wish to match by putting the number in front of the words you wish to match on. For example '1 blue frog', 'twenty blue frogs'. You can match on things inside your inventory and in the containers in the room. You can do this using the 'in' keyword, for example 'look at beer in bottle'. You can chain together series of things to match in two ways, if you use the joining "," then both sides must match for a match to be returned. For example 'look at frog,womble' would work if there was both a frog and a womble in the environment. It would not work if there was a frog but no womble or vica versa. The other method of matching does not care if either side match and you can do that with an '&'. For example 'frog & womble' would match if there was a frog, a womble or both in the environment. Other methods of specifying exactly which object you wish to reference can be done with some special keywords. If you use the word 'here' after the name of something, it will only match things in the room. If you use the word 'my' in front of a matchable string it will only match things in your inventory. If you use the word 'his' or 'her' before a matching string then it will match inside the previous living match. The mud keeps track of the last things you referenced and you can rereference them with the 'it', 'them', 'him', 'her' keywords. The keywords must match up to the type of thing you are referencing. You can control the behaviour of the too many object matching using the option 'input ambiguous'. .EP .SH Examples .SI 5 > look at quill,frog > look at quill&frog > look at bottle in bucket > look at blue frog > look at 2nd red towel > look at 20 gold coins > look at cupcake here > look at my badge > look at her badge > look at his jacket > look at it > get them > options input ambiguous = off .EI .SH See also .SP 5 5 locate, options .EP 5
