Condition to trigger macro when there are no players nearby

[kaoru]

I need to reproduce an event which triggers a macro whenever a player is NOT on screen. I'd also like to add exceptions to that trigger.

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player /^(?![.*]$)/

I suppose that works for excluding all players from the player state, but how should I add an exception for player1 and player2, so the macro can successfully reproduce a hypothetical "player not player1, player2"?

EDIT: altered original topic title from "player not state and exceptions trough regexp" to "Condition to trigger macro when there are no players nearby"

[kaoru]

Just did some tests and the "player /^(?!.*$)/" condition didn't work as I expected... As there's no player specified, the macro simply doesn't trigger.

I'd be pretty satisfied by now if I could come up with a condition that triggers whenever players aren't nearby, much like the safe condition from onlyWhenSafe works, or something like a "hook player_exist", but the opposite.

Any suggestions?

[EternalHarvest]

It's probably easy to implement such condition, for example with syntax "player none", with something like this:

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Index: Macro/Automacro.pm
===================================================================
--- Macro/Automacro.pm	(revision 8296)
+++ Macro/Automacro.pm	(working copy)
@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@
 sub checkPerson {
 	my ($who, $dist) = $_[0] =~ /^(["\/].*?["\/]\w*)\s*,?\s*(.*)/;
 
+	return !scalar @{$playersList->getItems()} if $who = 'none';
+
 	foreach my $player (@{$playersList->getItems()}) {
 		next unless match($player->name, $who);
 		if ($dist > 0) {

[gelo2012]

It's probably easy to implement such condition, for example with syntax "player none", with something like this:

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Index: Macro/Automacro.pm
===================================================================
--- Macro/Automacro.pm	(revision 8296)
+++ Macro/Automacro.pm	(working copy)
@@ -302,6 +302,8 @@
 sub checkPerson {
 	my ($who, $dist) = $_[0] =~ /^(["\/].*?["\/]\w*)\s*,?\s*(.*)/;
 
+	return !scalar @{$playersList->getItems()} if $who = 'none';
+
 	foreach my $player (@{$playersList->getItems()}) {
 		next unless match($player->name, $who);
 		if ($dist > 0) {

I'm sorry but I can't understand this. How can I then use this code for an automacro? Any examples?