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SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Some of the features include automatic handling for selfishness, doing a list such as "give a1|b2|c3|d4 vijilante" or like "give a1 b2 c3 d4 vijilante", and using aliases. The aliases can contain some interesting scripting items to help integrate with your current data structures. Alias can be used for any portion to the give except who to give it to, but you could do "give vijilante" to give the contents of a vijilante alias to vijilante. Cool

As with all my scripts I suggest turning off the Script Parser preferences "Use [] for evaluation" and "Use <> for expansion".

As long as the GiveAliases variable imports right it has some examples of the wacky syntax support for the aliases in the handler and here is the explaination of the syntaxes here in order of each attempted operation.
The keys are the alias names, keep them simple since they are what you will likely type.
a1|a2|a3|a4 Lists are accepted, and these will actually be rechecked for yet more aliases
: This is a direct replacement when the alias is first expanded. It becomes the alias name
:\## Extra syntax for colon, modifies the replacement with the word ## using an '_' as the seperator
?[regex] You might have problems with using further brackets in the regex, but most everything else should work. The regex is checked again a variable named Inventory. It is assumed this variable is a record variable with keys of itemID and values of item name. The return value is a list of all the itemID's that made a match. Matching checks both the ID and the name information.
$[variable] Does a lookup of @variable this supports an extra syntax
$[variable]\## The variable lookup is further checked by %item
#[alias] Since aliases might need to be embedded in other text, this one will return the value portion of the named GiveAlias
- This is a modifier for when another anything above returns a list this one will allow removing items. It requires an exact match of something after the '-' for an item in the list before the first minus.

All of these syntaxes are tested in a psuedo recusive fashion. If something doesn't work out the whole thing will just be returned. This lets everything that works get done then it will try again. The attempts to further improve and adjust the aliases ends when no change is managed in a single pass. Speed wise it seems pretty decent, and all processing is done before it issues "generosity".

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

I forgot to mention some of the other syntaxes for the main Give alias in the first post. I did mention that both list formats are supported, this was done to handle the 'all' keyword and numbers. It works like this:
give book all myrrh|lobelia 100 moss|bloodroot|kola vijilante
Results in the following set of commands, without any special aliases:

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

New changes in:

I think there was abug in the old post where it wasn't handling inventory look ups properly, so that is fixed. The example aliases of monkArt work correctly now.

New syntax of "give thing*x vijilante" will now produce x "give thing to vijilante" commands.

And I also made it strip the word "to" when used in the command to make it a little more compatible with scripts that aren't aware of its presence.

Enjoy.

Beginner Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 17

Any way to adjust it so it automatically tries to outr herbs? I'm looking at your script and just have no idea where I'd add that in

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Wow, this is a blast from the past. I forgot I posted this script.

If you want to make it check for out rifting that would be done in the DoGiviing alias, and you would have to supply a list of words to check as riftable items.

Beginner Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 17

awesome, thank you

Beginner Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 17

I've been trying and I can't get it to work, with outrifting items. Can you give a one item example of how you would add in the list in the dogiving?