The Guide to Loot Filters

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NCPereira wrote:

What is the difference between:

Class "Fishing Rod"

and

Class Fishing Rod

?

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SayyadinaAtreides wrote:

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NCPereira wrote:

What is the difference between:

Class "Fishing Rod"

and

Class Fishing Rod

?

The other explanations I've seen haven't been quite right, at least as I understand it. It'd be slightly different if this were the "BaseType" tag.

Functionally, all the quotes do is allow you to treat a token-that-includes-spaces as a single entity instead of accidentally splitting it up into two different tokens. That is,

Class "Fishing Rod"

will match any item of a class which includes the entirety of the text "Fishing Rod": for instance, "Fishing Rod Handles" or "Fishing Rod Paint" but not any class which includes just "Fishing" or just "Rod."

Class Fishing Rod

will attempt to compare your item against two potential groups of classes: one which includes everything with "Fishing," and one which includes everything with "Rod." A "Fishing Rod" would match both of these, although (assuming an efficiently coded interpreter) it would stop searching for "Rod" as soon as it realized the item matched "Fishing" (where the first line, with the quotes, would force it to match both). In addition to "Fishing Rod Handles" and "Fishing Rod Paint," this would match things like "Fishing Hole" or "Iron Rod."

Functionally, the two are basically the same because we don't have any other classes which include the word "fishing" or "rod," but the first is better coding for finding fishing rods. The second risks some unintentional inclusions (for instance, an identified "Reverberation Rod," though since it only matches class Wand that isn't actually a problem).