Zugg Software :: View topic - Capturing messages into Variables... how?

Newbie Joined: 28 Nov 2011 Posts: 5

I can capture single words into a variable using %1, how can I get a whole input?

Desired...
>Input:
lsay1 Hello there. My name is Mike.
>Output:
lsay spanish Hello there. My name is Mike.

Any suggestions?

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 3:49 am

the correct way to capture a portion of your pattern into a variable is to enclose it in parenthesis, then reference it with %1 %2 etc

assuming you are using %1 in a alias, %0 or %-1 would be the entire list of arguments

Newbie Joined: 02 Jan 2012 Posts: 1

Can somebody explain this further? Thanks!

Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:09 am

I think you need to explain exactly what you are wanting CMUD to do a bit better. From the information you have provided I can only assume you mean an alias, such as this one:

#ALIAS lsay1 {lsay spanish %params}

This will take anything typed after the user defined command 'lsay1' and append it to 'lsay spanish' command instead

Wizard Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 2320

In explanation--%1 only grabs the first parameter (i.e. word) after the alias. %2 would grab the second word, etc. To grab all the words, use %params instead of %1. %0 is an old Zmud alternative to %params, which is retained for compatibility reasons.