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Newbie Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 1 Location: Appa State U

Is there a way to take a variable and send it as one of my aliases?

Like #EXECUTE but check to see if it's an alias first, and if so, send that?

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:15 pm

#alias blah {#SAY hi}
test=blah
#EXEC {@test}

prints out the expected 'hi'

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

#alias blah {#SAY hi}
test=blah
#if (%trigger(@test)==1) {#exec {@test}}

The only trouble being that if you have any other setting named blah then it will attempt. So it is not an exact science if you will. Embarassed

Wizard Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 1113 Location: USA

Should you use %alias to test if something is an alias?

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Nope, %alias expands an alias. It was one of the commands created to make Zmud functions work more like real functions.

%class and %trigger both do the same thing. But obviously I wasn't trying to see if the variable contained the name of a class...

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:46 am

#EXEC {%alias(@test)}

does work

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Ok, so now I feel stupid. I was wrong.

#if (%alias(@test)) {#show yes} {#show no}

Does work... Hrm Cool but Embarassed