Zugg Software :: View topic - ZMUD settings that just won't work in CMUD

Newbie Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 4

Hi all,

I'm told these settings work fine in Zmud, but for some reason, Cmud doesn't like the wildcard on the end of the variable - keeps flagging it as an error. If anyone could tell me why, or if there's a work-around, that would be great.

#alias {BP} {outp @poison%1;blowpipe @poison%1 @targ;inp @poison%1}

#VAR POISONN {NANN}
#VAR POISONG {GRIMLEAF}

(We've tried using poison*, poison%1 and poison%w, but Cmud doesn't like any of them...)

Thanks in advance

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

The reason why is that you are depending on "implicit concatenation", assuming that the variables will expand and automatically attach to the adjacent words. Many times this will work fine, but there are cases where there is ambiguity. One example is "@poison%1". This could be interpreted two ways: as the variable "poison%1" or as the variable "poison" concatenated with the value %1. Zmud simply assumed the second case. Cmud needs to be much more stringent, and doesn't try to guess which you mean--it flags it as an error.

The solution is to use explicit concatenation, such as:

Newbie Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 4

Thanks for the reply, Rahab. Copied the new alias over, but I'm still getting an error flag on the @poison. Double checked, and I don't have one variable called '@poison', all of them have names like @poisonn, etc. Any more ideas?

Enchanter Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 511 Location: USA

Try this

Magician Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 496

This is easily fixed by using extra brackets around the intended variable name:

Newbie Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 4

Many thanks, Dumas and gamma_ray - both of those work, but for simplicity, gamma_ray gets the cookie Smile