powwow subs

[wiseman]

I've been setting up some powwow subs lately for arrives/leaves/etc and I can't seem to figure out how to get them to actually sub and not just display on a new line below the game message.

For example, this is how my subs current work:

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A scholar has arrived from the west.
ARRIVES FROM THE > W E S T <

I'm trying to figure out how I can get them to just show:

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A scholar ARRIVES FROM THE > W E S T <

Any powwow experts out there know how to do this. or if it's even possible?

[Jahara]

This isn't exactly what you want, since I use regular expression to match for any of the directions and then leave the text as it is.

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#action %+arrived ^(.+) has arrived from (above|below|the west|the east|the north|the south)(.+)={#print (\$2 + " has ARRIVED FROM >> " + \$3 + \$4 + " <<")}
#action %+s_arrived ^(.+) has suddenly arrived.={#print (\$2 + " has SUDDENLY ARRIVED.")}

In order for it to do what you want you would need to modify it similar to this:

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#action %+arrived ^(.+) has arrived from the west(.+)={#print (\$2 + " has ARRIVED FROM THE >> W E S T << " + \$3)}

[Elestir]

You don't need to use regexp actions for that btw.
But as Jahara showed, you need to print an expression, such as: (\$2 + " some text " + \$3)
The backslashes in front of $2 and $3 prevent immediate (premature) substitution of the variables with their respective contents. I prefer to use $(2) and $(3) notation for the same purpose (since Cosmos, the author of powwow, told me about the possibility). Backslashes get messy when you have nested definitions.

[wiseman]

This isn't exactly what you want, since I use regular expression to match for any of the directions and then leave the text as it is.

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#action %+arrived ^(.+) has arrived from (above|below|the west|the east|the north|the south)(.+)={#print (\$2 + " has ARRIVED FROM >> " + \$3 + \$4 + " <<")}
#action %+s_arrived ^(.+) has suddenly arrived.={#print (\$2 + " has SUDDENLY ARRIVED.")}

In order for it to do what you want you would need to modify it similar to this:

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#action %+arrived ^(.+) has arrived from the west(.+)={#print (\$2 + " has ARRIVED FROM THE >> W E S T << " + \$3)}

Thanks! That will get me started quite nicely.