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Beginner Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 13

I have this alias..
say
me whisper '%1' evilly.

It works if I only use 1 word.. Like this.

say blabla
Pelle whispers 'blabla' evilly.

if I use more than 1 word though it will show like this.

say bla bla
Pelle whispers 'bla' evilly. bla

What should I do to make it work properly? Please help!

towel

Novice Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Canada

Use %0 instead

Like this:

#alias {say} {me whispers '%0' evilly.}

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Use %-1. This is documented in the helpfile for #ALIAS

quote:
Special parameters %-1 through %-99 are also defined which represent the parameter plus all text following it. Thus, %-1 contains all text following the alias.

%0 might work (I have no idea one way or the other) but it is NOT documented and therefore should NOT be counted on.

LightBulb
Vague questions get vague answers

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

quote:

Use %0 instead

Like this:

#alias {say} {me whispers '%0' evilly.}

%0 is undocumented, and thus not a very good thing to use. The CORRECT syntax is to use %-n, where n = 1 to 99. You can also use quotes ("%1") or, I think, curly braces ({%1}).

li'l shmoe of Dragon's Gate MUD

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

I have done some testing with %0 in the past and it does some strange things when you use it with another %n in the same alias. It really should not be used, and I'm guessing that Zugg never intended it to work.

Kjata

Novice Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 40 Location: Canada

quote:

I have done some testing with %0 in the past and it does some strange things when you use it with another %n in the same alias. It really should not be used, and I'm guessing that Zugg never intended it to work.

Kjata

Thanks for the info, and my apologies for advising a non documented command, it's left over knowledge from my 4.62 days before i read help files :)