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Newbie Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 4

I'm trying to make an alias that will create a special sort of trigger for me.
"end" is an alias that i want to be performed whenever one of these triggers fires.

Here's what I have for the alias:
#ALIAS quick {#trigger {%1} {%2; end} "Quick"; #class Quick 0}

The idea is for you to be able to type this:
quick {string to be matched} {#do something}

and have it create a trigger that's in a disabled class that looks like this:
#trigger {string to be matched} {#do something; end} "Quick"

The problem is in order to seperate the two arguments to the alias they have to be enclosed in {} or "" or () or SOMETHING, but the enclosing characters are always included in the trigger, creating something like this:
#trigger {{string to be matched}} {{#do something}; end} "Quick"

And the nested stuff either won't executed correctly or creates syntax errors.

Help? Please?

Newbie Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 4

For the curious, this seems to work:

#ALIAS quick {
#VAR tmp1 %1; #VAR tmp2 %2
#trigger {<@tmp1>} {<@tmp2>; end} "Quick"; #class Quick 0
}

If there's any more elegant way of doing it, I'd appreciate hearing about it though.

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

I dont know if its more elegant but here's another way

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

A couple %remove()'s or similar functions would do the trick as well, but that might turn out to be slower than desired.

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

If you want to handle a couple variables, you could use a %match() function on the entire parameter list:

#noop %match("%q(*)%q %q(*)%q",@trigger.pattern,@trigger.code)
#trigger {@trigger.pattern} {@trigger.code}

Dunno if %q will pick up on the brackets, so you might need to do that manually via a pattern range ([]) or multiple %match() functions.

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