Zugg Software :: View topic - Allow Mud-Side Tags to Pass Through, But Not Capture

Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2011 Posts: 111

I'm having a difficult time with this... I'm playing a MUD that has color triggers. &W for white or &z for black and such.

An often-used command is something like: makearmor sienarium about cover &wA S&zuit &wo&zf &wD&zurasteel &wA&zrmor&G&w

But when I set an alias to capture it, it will not capture the full syntax with colorcodes. What I'd like for it to do is output the syntax with colorcodes to the MUD (&wA S&zuit &wo&zf &wD&zurasteel &wA&zrmor&G&w) but store just "A Suit of Durasteel Armor" in a variable.

Any ideas?

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 5:39 pm

Try using #SENDRAW if your codes are getting eaten in parsing.
You can use %replace if you know exactly what you are trying to strip out.

Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2011 Posts: 111

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I doubt the problem is in the sending, but you can add #SEND or #SENDRAW to your makearmor line in the alias. I think the problem is that the & is special character so the command line is trying to do something with it. Using quotes should get the proper value passed to the alias.

startarmor sienarium about cover "&wA S&zuit &wo&zf &wD&zurasteel &wA&zrmor&G&w"

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2016 2:21 pm

%replace(%replace(%replace(@startArmor_name, "&w"), "&z"), "&G")

As for #SENDRAW, it does evaluate functions and variables unless you quote (tilde ~) out the operative character or "surround your @string in quotes"

do=look
#SENDRAW @do
sends look
#SENDRAW ~@do
sends @do
#SENDRAW {@do}
sends look
#SENDRAW "@do"
sends @do

You might want to switch that over to local $variables unless you have a need to use them in other settings
Otherwise it seems odd that you need an alias for this at al... just do :

#SENDRAW "makearmor sienarium about cover &wA S&zuit &wo&zf &wD&zurasteel &wA&zrmor&G&w"