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Title: [Answered] Wildcards or pattern matching
Post by: talamask on August 13, 2021, 01:17:30 pm

Hi!

Is there a way to use wildcards or patterns when writing rules and referencing types or names?

For example we have several Gauss items in items rul. Their types are STR_GAUSS_PISTOL, STR_GAUSS_RIFLE, STR_GAUSS_HEAVY, etc. If I would like to modify, let's say weight attribute on them I would have to set it like this:

items:
  - type: STR_GAUSS_PISTOL
    weight: 42
  - type: STR_GAUSS_RIFLE
    weight: 42
  - type: STR_GAUSS_HEAVY
    weight: 42

My question is if it is possible to use something like this to modify ALL items that *matches* the pattern written in "type":

items:
  - type: STR_GAUSS_*
    weight: 42

Thank you!

Title: Re: Wildcards or pattern matching
Post by: Buscher on August 13, 2021, 02:23:16 pm

You can use anchors and refNode for that purpose. See the first example here (https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php/Ruleset_Reference_Nightly_(OpenXcom)) as reference.

For your example it would be like so

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items:
  - &STR_HEAVY_GAUSS_ANCHOR
    type: STR_GAUSS_PISTOL # dash was removed by purpose
    weight: 42 # value which is now part of the anchor

  - type: STR_GAUSS_RIFLE
    refNode: *STR_HEAVY_GAUSS_ANCHOR # includes weight: 42

  - type: STR_GAUSS_HEAVY
    refNode: *STR_HEAVY_GAUSS_ANCHOR