Zugg Software :: View topic - Variable Expanding--How can I control the expanding only happen at Nth parsing?

Beginner Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Posts: 12 Location: fwefas

Here is the case:

Providen id = myname

#alias mysettings {
#alias myspeicalalias1 { tell @id hi }
......
}

with this alias, when I input with command "mysettings", I want there have a alias " myspeicalalias1 " which is " tell @id hi ", but the real result is, the alias " myspeicalalias1 " will be " tell myname hi " !!!!

So the question is, how can I prevent the parsing from happen for the 1st time?

( A further question is , how can prevent parsing happen for the Nth time?

Appreciate your help

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The parameters of the #ALIAS command are treated literally for just that reason. So there are likely some number of things you are not mentioning, and I can't give you an exact answer to solve your exact problem without exact information.

Best I can say is look at the %expand and %literal functions.

Beginner Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Posts: 12 Location: fwefas

Well, actually I'm trying to put a bouch of alias, triggers in a scripts which will be done by an alias "mysettings"

So, when I input the command "mysettings", I don't want the inner alias, like "myspeicalalias1" to be expanded. I would expect the alias "myspeicalalias1" to be kept as {tell @id hi}, but not {tell myname hi}. The later is the real situation as the variable @id was expanded when I input the command "mysettings".

I looked at %expand, seems not helping.

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

It sounds like you want this.