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Newbie Joined: 08 Jan 2002 Posts: 1

#ALIAS test {%if(@var == 1,command)}

If I execute the above alias, and @var does not equal 1, the if statement will still return a value to the mud. This causes the mud to send me back its prompt, which gets very anoying. Is there a way to not return anything to the mud when the if statement is false? Sorry if this is a common question, I tried finding an answer in the old messages, but I could not find anything that addressed this question.

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

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#ALIAS test {%if(@var == 1,command)}

If I execute the above alias, and @var does not equal 1, the if statement will still return a value to the mud. This causes the mud to send me back its prompt, which gets very anoying. Is there a way to not return anything to the mud when the if statement is false? Sorry if this is a common question, I tried finding an answer in the old messages, but I could not find anything that addressed this question.

You are using the wrong command (in this case, it's technically a function).

What you need to use is #IF, not %if(). Thus your alias would look like this:

#alias test {#if (@var == 1) {command} {#noop this command will prevent anything you put on this line from happening}}

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Also, do notice that unlike C and some other programming languages, you use = and not ==. You cannot do variable assignment in the conditional of an if statement in zMUD.

Kjata