Removing priest spells from NPCs

[subtledoctor]

Question about Weidu's REMOVE_KNOWN_SPELL: can I have it target a class of spells, like all priest spells? Right now I have this:

ACTION_FOR_EACH npc IN ~jaheir~
     ~jaheir2~
     ~jaheir4~
     ~jaheir6~
     ~branwe~
     ~branwe5~
     ~faldor~
     ~faldor5~
     ~yeslic~
     ~yeslic5~
     ~viconi~
     ~viconi4~
     ~viconi6~
     ~viconi61~
     ~quayle~
     ~quayle4~
     ~quayle6~
     ~tiax~
     ~tiax4~
     ~tiax6~   BEGIN
  ACTION_IF FILE_EXISTS_IN_GAME ~%npc%.cre~ BEGIN
    COPY_EXISTING ~%npc%.cre~ ~override~
      REMOVE_KNOWN_SPELL ~sppr101~ ~sppr102~ ~sppr103~ ...
    BUT_ONLY
  END
END

Is there some way I can have it just remove every spell that begins with "sppr" ? Like,

 

SET spprs to ( REGEXP ~sppr.*~ )

 

and then

 

REMOVE_KNOWN_SPELL ~%spprs%~ ...?

 

(For that matter, it would be really great if we could distinguish joinable NPCs so that I could turn that list of CREs into a term that captures all joinable vanilla and mod NPCs...)

[Mike1072]

Use data structures and loops.

The code in this file removes spells from and adds spells to joinable NPCs. You should be able to modify it to suit your purpose.

[subtledoctor]

Thanks! Wow... that's going to take me a few hours to digest. Lots of stuff I don't understand.

 

(I imagine this is a lot easier for programmers. Most modders are probably programmers, huh?)

[subtledoctor]

Whoa - I think I got it working! I'm not sure how I got it working, but I did. I'm like an idiot savant with this stuff.

 

Thx again Mike!