Zugg Software :: View topic - Help in syntax for creating a (should-be) simple alias

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:28 pm

Looking to make an alias to the effect of:

#al ct *%1 {clan *%1}

This is ultimately a "preventative/convenience" alias, as due to reasons (complex to explain) to communicate on the same channel on my MUD, in 2 different ways, requires two different commands (one "ct" the other "clan *(words) )... Trying to combine it to one command. But b/c of the * used in the command, I cannot get ZMud to recognize the alias.. Am I missing something? {} maybe, somewhere? Or something I don't know about? Or can it just not be done?

Thanks a lot!

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

Maybe you're looking for something like this?

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 6:26 am

#alias ct {#if (%left(%-1,1)="*") {clan ~*%-1} {<ct %-1}}

I /think/ thats along the lines of what you're looking for... XD

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 4:53 pm

Thanks for the responses guys, but the first one left actually didn't work, and the second instantly caused Zmud to crash and restore to backup MUD file all 3 times I tried it ;)

What I need is almost like a #IF statement, but for an alias.. the catch is to make it recognise the * in there... if I were to write it as a trigger, it would be:

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

how about an ONINPUT trigger?

#ONINPUT {ct ~*(%w)} {clan *%1}

btw if you use (%w) then it will only send one word

so ct hello there not match the trigger and send ct hello there to the mud.
but ct *hello there only hello would be captured by (%w)
so ct *hello there would send clan *hello to the mud
maybe thats what you want?.
if not change (%w) to (*) so that it will capture the rest of the string and not just the first word.

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

That won't work, Dharkael. #ONINPUT triggers do not work like aliases wherein you can substitute commands with other commands. Instead, it will send both commands--the one from the command line that matches the trigger and the one the trigger sends. At least, that's how it works for me. I haven't seen any other different behavior ever before nor have I seen a Preference setting that would change this.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

Think this is what you're after(?)

#ALIAS test {#IF (%left( %-1, 1)="*") {em %rightback( %-1, %len( %-1)-1)} {say %-1}}

So if you
test 1 2 3
then it sends 'say 1 2 3'

if you
test *1 2 3
then it sends "em 1 2 3"

should be able to change it as required.

Enchanter Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Canada

Not sure what you're talking about MattLofton because in fact it does work, at least for me.
And if you read the #ONINPUT help you'll see that exactly what the examples suggest it does.
if you want to be sure add the #GAG make sure the original text isnt sent

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

::mutters::
BAH! As solid as ZMud is getting, these random, no-apparent-reaspon glitches are getting even more annoying! I was working with #ONINPUT for some project about a month ago and I swear it was NOT working like that (although, yes, the trigger was firing and correctly doing the rest of the trigger behavior).