Stringregexp

[d0n]

what i am trying to do is to get info from the strings

but i ran into some problems

1) i am not sure how to use the "|" function in StringRegExp to get both "hit" and "slash"

2) The name on the 3rd line changes from "You" to "A Tall Dragon", not sure how to have it search for both names

Global $i = 1, $name, $dmg

While 1
    $read = FileReadLine(@scriptdir&"\test.txt", $i)
    If @error = -1 Then ExitLoop
    $dmg= StringRegExp($read, "for (\d+)", 1)
    $name = StringRegExp($read, "(\b\w+\b) hit", 1)
    If $dmg = 0 Then
    Else
    $dmg1 = $dmg[0]
    $name1 = $name[0]
    MsgBox("", "Info", $name1 &" = " & $dmg1)   
    EndIf
    $i = $i + 1
Wend

The txt file

You slash Dragon for 1183 damage.
You hit Dragon for 1217 damage.
A Tall Dragon hits you for 96 damage.

[Authenticity]

Dim $sStr = 'You slash Dragon for 1183 damage.' & @CRLF & _
            'You hit Dragon for 1217 damage.' & @CRLF & _
            'A Tall Dragon hits you for 96 damage.'

Dim $sPatt = '(.*?)(?:hit|slashe?)s?.*?for\s*(\d+)'
Dim $aLines = StringSplit($sStr, @CRLF, 1)

For $i = 1 To $aLines[0]
    Local $aMatch = StringRegExp($aLines[$i], $sPatt, 1)
    If UBound($aMatch) = 2 Then ConsoleWrite('Hit: ' & $aMatch[0] & @TAB & 'Dmg: ' & $aMatch[1] & @CRLF)
Next

[d0n]

hi one more question,

there happens to be a timestamp in front of each line [1:41:21 PM Jun 04 2009]

How come this doesn't work?

Dim $sPatt = '(]) (.*?)(?:hit|slashe?)s?.*?for\s*(\d+)'

[Authenticity]

Try using (?i) in the beginning if the pattern because it won't match, right now, HiTs or SlASh or foR, for example:

Dim $sStr = '[1:41:21 PM Jun 04 2009] You slash Dragon for 1183 damage.'
Dim $sPatt = '(?i)\[[^]]*\]\s*(.*?)(?:hit|slashe?)s?.*?for\s*(\d+)'
Dim $aMatch

$aMatch = StringRegExp($sStr, $sPatt, 1)
If UBound($aMatch) = 2 Then ConsoleWrite('Hit: ' & $aMatch[0] & @TAB & 'Dmg: ' & $aMatch[1] & @CRLF)

[d0n]

thank you for the help, the pattern part is really confusing lol