Help on: *delete examples Our starting room description: ---------------------------- : look 62 - Test Room This is the short description. It is only one line. This is the long description. It has lots of words, and these words span several lines. Usually, you tell the player what is going on in this part of the description. All exits: none. : ---------------------------- *del -P, without any other guidance, will delete the phrase "It" from both the short and long descriptions. Note that it leaves an extra space behind. ---------------------------- : *del -P It Deleted. : *del -P It Deleted. : *del -P It Pattern not found. : look 62 - Test Room This is the short description. is only one line. This is the long description. has lots of words, and these words span several lines. Usually, you tell the player what is going on in this part of the description. All exits: none. : ---------------------------- Adding the S flags forces *delete to only look in the short description. The pattern " the" is left alone in the long description. Also note the double spacing in the command. The first space is to seperate the flags from the pattern, the second space acts as part of the patern. ---------------------------- : *del -SP the Deleted. : *del -SP the Pattern not found. : look 62 - Test Room This is short description. is only one line. This is the long description. has lots of words, and these words span several lines. Usually, you tell the player what is going on in this part of the description. All exits: none. : ---------------------------- The E flag will delete everything after the phrase, but not the phrase itself. ---------------------------- : *del -E part Deleted. : look 62 - Test Room This is short description. is only one line. This is the long description. has lots of words, and these words span several lines. Usually, you tell the player what is going on in this part All exits: none. : ---------------------------- When E and P are used in conjunction, it will delete everything after what is found, including the phrase. If used in the short description, it will delete everything in the long description as well. ---------------------------- : *del -EP going Deleted. : look 62 - Test Room This is short description. is only one line. This is the long description. has lots of words, and these words span several lines. Usually, you tell the player what is All exits: none. : *del -EP line Deleted. : look 62 - Test Room This is short description. is only one All exits: none. : ----------------------------